Mattew"Matt" Hooper is the deuteragonist of the 1975 film Jaws, based on Peter Benchley's 1974 bestselling novel of the same name. He was portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss.
Biography[]
As an oceanographer, he discovered with Martin Brody's help, that the beach of Amity was under threat because of a white jaw. After getting confirmation, he went with Brody and Quint to capture the Jaw. During the following hunt, which lasted a long time and caused the death of Quint and in which he also admired the white shark's fighting abilities, Brody managed to kill it. The boat, however, sunk.
Trivia[]
- Though Matt did not appear in Jaws 2, he was mentioned to be on an expedition.
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