Chuck Pfarrer

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Chuck Pfarrer
Born April 13, 1957 (1957-04-13) (age 51)
Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation Novelist, screenwriter.
Nationality American
Genres Print: Non-Fiction: Military, Espionage, Counter-terrorism. Fiction: Reality (Historical) Fiction, Literary Thriller.

Film: Military, Action Adventure, Science Fiction, Suspense.

Charles Patrick "Chuck" Pfarrer, III (born April 13, 1957, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and former U.S. Navy SEAL. He now lives in Michigan with his wife and child.

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[edit] Biography

Pfarrer is the son of Charles Patrick Pfarrer, Jr., a career naval officer, and Joan Marie (née Hoyle) Pfarrer, a registered nurse. Born in Boston, Pfarrer considers Biloxi, Mississippi to now be his hometown.

Pfarrer is a graduate of Staunton Military Academy, and studied Clinical Psychology at California State University at Northridge and the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Pfarrer went through Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL training (BUD/S) in 1981 and spent 8 years as a Navy SEAL. He served as as a military advisor in Central America, trained NATO forces in Europe and the Mediterranean, undertook duties in the Middle East, notably in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. He witnessed the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut and was one of the SEAL Team leaders responsible for the apprehension of the terrorist group, including its leader Abu Abbas, that hijacked the Achille Lauro. Pfarrer ended his service as Assault Element Commander in SEAL Team SIX.

Shortly after leaving the military , Pfarrer embarked on a new career as a Hollywood screenwriter. His film credits include writing, acting and production work in Navy SEALs, Darkman, and Hard Target. Pfarrer was the screenwriter on The Jackal. His spec screenplays for Virus and Red Planet were also made into movies.

Pfarrer’s best-selling autobiography, Warrior Soul, The Memoir of a Navy SEAL, was published by Random House in 2004. His debut novel, Killing Che, was published by Random House in 2007. He is the author of six graphic novels for Dark Horse Publications, and wrote and produced two interactive full motion videos, Flash Traffic and Silent Steel, both for Tsunami Media.

[edit] Works

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL (2004)


[edit] Graphic novels

  • Virus 1, 2, 3, 4 (1996)
  • The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear (1995)

[edit] Screenplays

  • Navy SEALs
  • Darkman
  • Hard Target
  • Virus
  • The Jackal
  • Red Planet
  • Barb Wire

[edit] Interactive motion pictures

  • Flash Traffic (1992)
  • Silent Steel (1994)

[edit] Poetry

  • Saint Brendan’s Boat (2007)
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