Jonathan Searle played one of the clowns who set a phony shark blade in the waters off Amity Island.

Jonathan Searle played a minor part as one of the wisecrackers who set a phony shark balance in the waters off Amity Island.

Presently, after 47 years, he has been named police boss in the town of Oaks Bluff on Martha’s Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts where the vast majority of Jaws was shot.

Mr Searle showed up alongside his sibling in the Steven Spielberg film, which was set in an imaginary town on Long Island.

Featuring Roy Scheider as the film’s own police boss Brody, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss, it fixated on an extraordinary white shark unleashing ruin among beachgoers.

In one vital scene, Brody comments: “I can do anything. I’m the head of police.”

Mr Searle has been on the neighborhood force beginning around 1986, the Vineyard Gazette revealed.

In 2008, he accused a man of sloppy direct for doing what he had carried on in the movie – lying and telling beachgoers he’d seen a couple of incredible whites off the island.

Mr Searle told the Vineyard Gazette he was “lowered and regarded to have been offered the position” as police boss.

“It’s something I’ve been making progress toward my entire profession,” he added.