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- Birth nameHenry Hunt Searls Jr.
- Hank Searls was born on August 10, 1922 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a writer, known for The Crowded Sky (1960), The Fugitive (1963) and Countdown (1967). He was married to Bunny Cooper and Meredith Carroll Kapp. He died on February 17, 2017 in Gig Harbor, Washington, USA.
- SpousesBunny Cooper(December 19, 1959 - February 17, 2017) (his death)Meredith Carroll Kapp(December 10, 1946 - 1953) (divorced, 2 children)
- Novelist and screenwriter, author of the best-selling "Overboard", "Jaws II" (based on the movie Jaws 2 (1978)) and "Sounding", creator of The New Breed (1961) TV series and writer of episodes of The Fugitive (1963) series. He has lived most of his life on, under, or over the ocean, having been a world-cruising yachtsman, underwater photographer and Navy flier.
- Living in Gig Harbor, Washington, with his wife Bunny.
- In February 1972, once the two children from his previous marriage had grown, he and wife Bunny left Malibu for Pitcairn Island and spent three years living on a boat in the South Pacific, eventually ending up in New Zealand, where they sold the boat. This experience inspired his novel Overboard, which was made into the 1978 TV movie Overboard (1978), for which he also wrote the teleplay.
- Brother-in-law of Ben Cooper.
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