An actor who featured in hit film Jaws has become the police chief in the town where the movie was filmed.
Jonathan Searle was just nine years old when was in a scene in the 1975 film where two boys played a prank which scared beachgoers when swimming with a fake shark fin on the now police chief's back.
The other child was played by his brother in the Steven Spielberg classic, which was filmed in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyards - a island off the coast of Massachusetts.
Oak Bluffs doubled as Amity in the movie where a menacing great white shark is hunted by a police chief played by Roy Scheider, a marine scientist (Richard Dreyfuss) and Robert Shaw's professional shark hunter Quint.
Jonathan, now 56, is unlikely to have to deal with terrorising sharks but will be kept busy after being voted in as Oak Bluffs' police chief.
The former child actor, who was born and raised on the island, was one of two natives to make the final list of candidates for the role before he was voted in by the 5,000 residents of Oak Bluffs with a 3-1 result on Monday.
He will start his role at the end of next month when current chief Erik Blake retires.
Speaking after the announcement of his new role, Jonathan told the Vineyard Gazette: "I’m clearly elated and I’m humbled and honoured to have been offered the position.
"It’s something I’ve been working toward my whole career."
Jonathan joined the police 11 years after his cameo appearance in Jaws and became a sergeant in Edgartown - another town which was used in the film. He will leave that role to become the police chief of Oak Bluffs.
Jaws was the highest grossing film of 1975 and has made $471,411,300 (£377.5m) in the box office since its release, according to IMDb.
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