White Hunter Black Heart Eastwood, is based on real-life director John Huston. Jeff Fahey plays Pete Verrill, a character based on Viertel. George Dzundza's character is based on "African Queen" producer Sam Spiegel. Marisa Berenson's character Kay Gibson and Richard Vanstone's character Phil Duncan, are based on Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, respectively. This was the last film that James Bridges worked on writing down a screenplay before dying in 1993. In the early 1950s, world-renowned film-maker John Wilson travels to Africa for his next film bringing with him a young writer chum named Pete Verrill. Part of his travel plans include hunting elephants
Jeff Fahey the Season 3 premiere of "Miami Vice" as gun dealer Eddie Kaye, famously destroying Detective Sonny Crockett's Ferrari Daytona. In 1990, Fahey starred alongside Marisa Tomei in the TV movie "Parker Kane", and alongside Clint Eastwood in the Eastwood-directed "White Hunter Black Heart". In 1992, he starred alongside Pierce Brosnan in "The Lawnmower Man". In 1995, Fahey was the lead in the Trimark Pictures adventure film "Eye of the Wolf", directed by Arnaud Sélignac, based on the book "KAZAN" by James Oliver Curwood. In 1995, he starred as "Winston McBride" on ABC's "The Marshal". In 1999, he played the main