The actor was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2004, and died of a staph infection in February 2008 aged 75 years old.

A substantial portion of Benchley's Jaws is dedicated to Ellen Brody's dissatisfaction with her marriage, and her decision to pursue an affair with Matt Hooper, the Yale-educated ichthyologist who ...

Soon, Quint, Brody, and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are hunting the Great White shark at sea. As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature ...

Matt Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss, was a marine biologist who helped the sheriff in the 1975 film Jaws. Hooper helped give our heroes scientific insight into the deadly great white shark ...

Universal Pictures is leaving no barrel untied as 'Jaws' is back in theaters this year to commemorate its half-century of fear.

Based on Peter Benchley’s novel of the same name, Jaws follows the efforts of police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), oceanographer Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), and ship captain Quint ...