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Robert Towne

Robert Towne

Writer · Born 1934-11-23 · San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

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Biography

Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934 - July 1, 2024) was an American screenwriter, producer, director and actor. He was part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He later said it was inspired by a chapter in Carey McWilliams's Southern California Country: An Island on the Land (1946) and a West magazine article on Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes (1990); the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975); and the first two Mission: Impossible films. Towne directed the sports dramas Personal Best (1982) and Without Limits (1998), the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise (1988), and the romantic crime drama Ask the Dust (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Towne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Suspect Zero (2004) — Professor Dates (uncredited)
  2. Shampoo (1975) — Party Guest (uncredited)
  3. The Pick-up Artist (1987) — Stan
  4. Salinger (2013) — Self - Screenwriter
  5. The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) — Self
  6. Last Woman on Earth (1960) — Martin Joyce
  7. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) — Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
  8. A Decade Under the Influence (2003) — Self
  9. The Zodiac Killer (1971) — Man in Bar #3
  10. Drive, He Said (1971) — Richard
  11. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019) — Self
  12. You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008) — Self
  13. Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) — Self
  14. Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008) — Self
  15. Rescued from the Closet (2001) — Self
  16. Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy (1998) — Self
  17. Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002) — Self (uncredited)
  18. A Sad Flower in the Sand (2001) — Self
  19. Robert Towne
  20. Halloween Monster Bash (1991) — Sparks Moran (archive footage)
  21. Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible (2010) — Self
  22. Cadillac Desert (1997) — Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'

Directed

  1. Tequila Sunrise (1988) — Director
  2. Ask the Dust (2006) — Director
  3. Without Limits (1998) — Director
  4. Personal Best (1982) — Director