In 1975, Steven Spielberg began his ascension to fame with Jaws ( 1975 ).

Voight was Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role of Matt Hooper in the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, but he turned down the role, which was ultimately played by Richard Dreyfuss.

Marvin was offered the role of Quint in Jaws ( 1975 ) but declined, stating " What would I tell my fishing friends who'd see me come off a hero against a dummy shark ?".

In 1972, Sega released an electro-mechanical game called Killer Shark, a first-person light gun shooter known for appearing in the 1975 film Jaws.

Some mention of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is made in the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws as having been the center of research for the fictional character Matt Hooper.

Chilmark and Menemsha, the fishing village located on the northern end of the town are also the locations of the fictional town of " Amity Island " in the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster Jaws ( film ).

Edgartown was used as the main shooting location for the town of Amity in Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster Jaws.

At the time of the filming of " Jaws " in 1975 this was the largest of the ferries, running only in the summer months for its high passenger capacity.

Manfredini borrows from the 1975 film Jaws, where the shark is likewise not seen for the majority of the film but the motif created by John Williams cued the audience to the shark's invisible menace.

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.

Computer Space was shown in the 1973 film Soylent Green, and the 1975 film Jaws.

In 1962, they sold a limbo dance kit to take advantage of that fad, and in 1975 when the movie Jaws was released, they sold plastic shark teeth.

Reed claimed to have turned down major roles in two hugely successful Hollywood movies: The Sting ( 1973 ) ( although he did appear in the sequel ) and Jaws ( 1975 ).

Jaws 2 is a 1978 horror / thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws ( 1975 ), which was based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.

In October 1975, Steven Spielberg told the San Francisco Film Festival that " making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick " and that he did not even respond to the producers when they asked him to direct Jaws 2.

His aggressive driving style and outspoken demeanor earned him the nickname " Jaws ", a reference to the 1975 film about a killer shark.

In 1975 the usage of ' blockbuster ' for films coalesced around Steven Spielberg's Jaws, and became perceived as something new: a cultural phenomenon, a fast-paced exciting entertainment, almost a genre.

Before Jaws set box office records in the summer of 1975, successful films such as Quo Vadis, The Ten Commandments, Gone With the Wind, and Ben-Hur were called blockbusters based purely on the amount of money earned at the box office.

She made her second film, 1977's horror film Orca ; which was a take-off of the 1975 horror film, Jaws.

* Jaws ( 1975 )

In 1975, Goodman parodied the movie Jaws with " Mr. Jaws " (# 4 in 1975 ), becoming Goodman's biggest-selling record by achieving R. I. A. A.

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

* Peter Benchley ( 1940 – 2006 ), author of the novel and film Jaws.

* Frank Mundus ( 1925 – 2008 ), shark hunter said to have inspired the character Quint in the movie Jaws.

Osvaldo Ocasio, ( born August 12, 1955 ), better known as Ossie Ocasio and nicknamed Jaws, is a Puerto Rican who was a boxer and world Cruiserweight champion.

A notable passenger of the Taunus was the iconic Jaws ( Richard Kiel ), who was presumably the only survivor when Bond managed to shake off the pursuing car and cause it to overshoot a cliff and plough into the roof of a barn.

On Mondays during the football season, ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski, a former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback ( a. k. a. " Jaws " and " the Polish Rifle "-the latter usually rendered in a Howard Cosell-like voice ), is usually the guest, to offer analysis of the previous day's games and a prediction for the Monday Night Football game that night.

Bond destroys the laboratory being used to make the nanobots, but finds out that a truck full of nanobots is being driven to the New Orleans levees by Jaws ( Richard Kiel ), so they can destroy them and flood New Orleans.

Dewey Rowell ( Flattus Maximus ), Michael Bishop ( Beefcake the Mighty ) and Rob Mosby ( Nippleus Erectus ) were recruited in 1987, along with Steve Douglas ( Balsac the Jaws of Death ) who rejoined the band after having previously left.

The initial script of The Spy Who Loved Me concluded with Jaws being killed by the shark, but after a rough test screening ( where Lewis Gilbert's grandson was present ), Jaws was so well liked that the scene was changed to have him survive.

In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws survives an Egyptian structure's collapse on top of him, being hit by a van, being thrown from a rapidly-moving train, sitting in the passenger seat of a car which veers off a cliff in Sardinia and explodes ( landing in a hut below, to the owner's dismay ), a battle underwater with a shark, and the destruction of Stromberg's lair.

Get Smart, which is both a parody and an homage to the James Bond film series, has a character named Dalip ( played by The Great Khali ), who looks like Jaws and does his Moonraker stunt of falling from the sky without a parachute and surviving.

He and partner Zanuck were jointly awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1990 for their achievements in producing films including the horror thriller Jaws ( 1975 ), directed by Steven Spielberg.

A study was conducted by California State University's Media Psychology Lab, on the psychological appeal of movie monsters — Vampires, Freddy Krueger, Frankenstein's monster, Jason Voorhees, Godzilla, Chucky, Hannibal Lecter, King Kong, The Alien, and the shark from Jaws — which surveyed 1, 166 people nationwide ( United States ), with ages ranging from 16 to 91.

Among the stage roles that he has performed so far are: Luc in Michel-Marc Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines ( The Orphan Muses ), directed by André Brassard in 1985 ; Roméo in a Québécois adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( Roméo et Juliette ), directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989 ; and Jay in Jean-Marc Dalpé's Le Chien ( The Dog ), Adrien in Jeanne-Mance Delisle's Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule ( A Live Bird in Its Jaws ), and Lee in a Québécois version of Sam Shepard's True West, all three productions directed by Brigitte Haentjens, in 1987-89, 1990, and 1994, respectively.

* Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule ( A Live Bird in Its Jaws ), by Jeanne-Mance Delisle ( 1990 )

The character, from his unusual appearance, manners, strength and method of killing, forms the archetype for which many henchmen of the Bond film series were based on, which includes Jaws, Nick Nack, Chang and Gobinda.

* The Spy Who Loved Me ( and other James Bond films )— the character of Braces-who is a parody of the character Jaws from this film.

As well as her career in television, Barsi appeared in several films including Jaws: The Revenge and provided the voice for the character of Ducky in The Land Before Time.

Jaws is one of the most popular James Bond henchmen and a recurring character in the James Bond video games.

In the storyboard of the sequence from Moonraker, Jaws appears with a Largo-style eye patch, and a moustache, neither of which was seen in the actual films in which the character appeared.

Jaws is an unlockable multiplayer character in GoldenEye 007 as well as in 007: Nightfire, where he is the tallest character in the game, his punches can kill almost instantly, and the character model's teeth are visible at close range.

Jaws is also a playable multiplayer character in the 2010 remake GoldenEye 007 for the Wii, and in the 2011 re-release GoldenEye 007: Reloaded for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

An unrelated character Braces in the video games TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect is also referencing Jaws.

In the 1975 movie Jaws, the character Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss, claims that he has " crewed two Transpacs " as a means of establishing his seamanship credentials with Quint.

The show also drew inspiration ( in the use of a shark as a character ) from the overall shark mania of the 1970s and the then-recent film Jaws.

* Jaws, a fictional character played by American actor Richard Kiel who appears in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ) and Moonraker ( 1979 )

* Vivian Wright, nicknamed " Jaws ", a fictional character in the TV series Dream Team

* Richard Kiel, American actor, who played a fictional character called " Jaws " in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me ( 1977 ) and Moonraker ( 1979 )

When Mr. Burns introduces his new religion, most of the sequence is a parody of the promotional video of Michael Jackson's 1995 album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. Willie scratching his nails along the church window to get Marge and Reverend Lovejoy's attention is a reference to the 1975 film Jaws, in which the character Quint performs a similar action.

Immediately thereafter, a cartoon image of Clouseau emerges from the water, which has been tinted pink, and begins swimming, unaware that a gigantic version of the Pink Panther character is waiting below him with a sharp-toothed, open mouth ( a reference to the film Jaws made obvious by the thematic music ).

One citizen suggests using chocolate attached to a fish-hook to save Timmy, a reference to a character from the 1975 film Jaws.

In the documentary accompanying the DVD marking the 30th anniversary of the film, Jaws, director Steven Spielberg states his original intention had been to introduce the Ahab-like character Quint ( Robert Shaw ), by showing him watching the 1956 version of the film and laughing at the inaccuracies therein.