Robert Towne
Writing
Born 1934-11-23
Died 2024-07-01
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
56 credits
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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).
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Filmography
Acting
28 credits
Bonnie and Clyde
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Frantic
Suspect Zero
Heaven Can Wait
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
The Parallax View
The Pick-up Artist
A Decade Under the Influence
Deal of the Century
The New Centurions
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Cisco Pike
Salinger
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Rescued from the Closet
Cadillac Desert
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
Drive, He Said
Halloween Monster Bash
The Zodiac Killer
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
A Sad Flower in the Sand
Writing
21 credits
The Godfather
Mission: Impossible
The Outer Limits
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Mission: Impossible II
The Firm
Chinatown
Days of Thunder
Welcome to the Basement
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
The Lloyd Bridges Show
The Yakuza
Shampoo
The Two Jakes
The Last Detail
Love Affair
Villa Rides
8 Million Ways to Die
The Tomb of Ligeia
Last Woman on Earth
Battle of Britain
Directing
4 credits
Producing
2 credits
Other credits
1 credit
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