Life Imitates Art: ‘Jaws’ Extra Named Police Chief

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. (AP) — A person who as a toddler had a short function in “Jaws” has been named police chief on the Massachusetts island on which the 1975 Oscar-winning film was partially filmed.

Jonathan Searle was supplied the job of police chief in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Winery final week.

“I’m clearly elated and and I’m humbled and honored to have been supplied the place,” Searle, at present a sergeant with Edgartown police, informed the Winery Gazette, which first reported the appointment.

The film facilities on the efforts of a police chief in a fictional resort city making an attempt to rid the native waters of a killer shark. Scenes have been filmed in numerous areas on Martha’s Winery, based on IMDB.com.

Within the film, Searle performed certainly one of two boys who ship beachgoers right into a panic by swimming round with a pretend shark’s fin.

Searle, whose father was police chief in Edgartown, takes over in Oak Bluffs subsequent month.

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