Directed by:
Steven Spielberg

Starring:
Roy Scheider as Police Chief Martin Brody
Robert Shaw as Quint
Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper
Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody
Murray Hamilton as Mayor Larry Vaughn
Carl Gottlieb as Ben Meadows
Jeffrey Kramer as Deputy Leonard 'Lenny' Hendricks (as Jeffrey C. Kramer)
Susan Backlinie as Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins
Jonathan Filley as Tom Cassidy
Ted Grossman as Estuary Victim

• When the girl is being attacked by the shark, she seems to do an incredible job of acting in pain. The thing is, she is not acting. The scene was done with divers under the water pulling the actress with ropes. They pulled the girl so hard that she broke several ribs.
  • Correction: The actress denies this in an interview on the recently-released DVD. She had a quick-release mechanism so she could get free if anything untoward happened. - tom

• If you pay close attention to one of the windows in the building behind Brody after he leaves the hardware store, you will notice a bystander sticking her head up and taking pictures of Roy Scheider as he is doing his lines.

• Apparently, technicians lost control of one of the mechanical sharks, and it was lost at sea.

• The mechanical shark in the movie was nicknamed Bruce, after one of the producers. - Mark Evans
  • Correction: It is correct that they named the shark Bruce, but they named it after Spielberg's lawyer, not one of the producers. - Kate

• Near the end of the film, when everybody's on the boat hunting the shark, the coast guard is radio-ed. The voice of the coast guard is actually Steven Spielberg. - Movieguy2000

• Peter Benchley, the author of the novel on which the film is based upon, plays the news reporter on the beach. - Nate

• The sound that Jaws makes once he explodes is actually used in a previous movie made by Spielberg where a monster truck harasses a motorist on a highway. Once the truck drives over the cliff, it makes the same sound used in jaws. (Source: Jaws DVD) - Chris Kitchens

• In the movie JAWS, the scene in which local fisherman Ben Gardner's head pops out of the hull of his damaged boat, was actually the last scene filmed for the movie. It was shot on the Universal Studio lot, not at sea. (Source: JAWS log) - GB 1

• The sound that Jaws makes once he explodes is actually used in a previous movie made by Spielberg where a monster truck harasses a motorist on a highway. Once the truck drives over the cliff, it makes the same sound used in Jaws. That movie is Duel, one of Spielberg's first. (Source: Jaws DVD) - Killerlampshade

• When the boys are in the "lagoon" and the shark knocks the boat over... the man in the row boat that gets eaten is a cameraman. (Source: Special Edition Movie) - cmlg

• During filming I heard that one of the fins got bent and the robot swam backwards. (Source: CSI) - Taz

• The sound that is heard in the background after the shark has been blown up and the carcass is floating to the bottom was borrowed. It is the roar of a Tyrannosaur Rex from an old dinosaur movie. (Source: The making of Jaws) - J Dawg

• Peter Benchley (author of Jaws) was thrown of the set during the filming of the climax because he thought the ending was too unbelievable. He indiffered with director Steven Spielberg who thought up the ending. (Source: Documentary) - A.Y.

• The person that played the coroner in Jaws was not an actor but the actual coroner in Marthas Vinyard, and the woman that played Mrs. Kitner was not an actress but a local resident. (Source: Documentary) - JimmyD