Robert Towne
Writing
Born November 23, 1934 · San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
Acting (18)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Salinger
2013
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Suspect Zero
2004
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
Rescued from the Closet
2001
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
The Pick-up Artist
1987
Shampoo
1975
Drive, He Said
1971
The Zodiac Killer
1971
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
Last Woman on Earth
1960