Quint

Quint is a fictional character appearing in the 1974 novel Jaws by Peter Benchley, and in the 1975 film Jaws, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. In both the novel and the film, he is portrayed as a shark fisherman. In the novel, he appears as a bald, weathered, burly man who never wears sunglasses. In the film he was portrayed by actor Robert Shaw. Quint is hired to kill the monster great white shark that terrorizes the fictional New England town of Amity Island. He boards his fishing boat, the Orca, with Matt Hooper, an ichthyologist, and Martin Brody, the local chief of police. Eventually the shark sinks the Orca, leaping onto its transom. While Brody manages to slide back to a lower compartment of the boat, Quint hangs onto a...