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Jaws actor becomes police chief of same town famous Spielberg shark movie was filmed

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.

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