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Robert Towne
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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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March 22nd, 2019 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Self | 6.7 | |
September 6th, 2013 | Salinger | Self - Screenwriter | 6.4 | |
May 15th, 2008 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story | Self | 8.5 | |
March 25th, 2008 | Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' | Self | 4.6 | |
December 21st, 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That | Self | 7 | |
August 27th, 2004 | Suspect Zero | Professor Dates (uncredited) | 5.6 | |
April 25th, 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 7.9 | |
April 2nd, 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (uncredited) | 8 | |
May 29th, 2001 | Rescued from the Closet | Self | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 2001 | A Sad Flower in the Sand | Self | TBD | |
February 4th, 1998 | Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy | Self | 6 | |
June 24th, 1997 | Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature | Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown' | 10 | |
October 27th, 1991 | Halloween Monster Bash | Sparks Moran (archive footage) | TBD | |
September 18th, 1987 | The Pick-up Artist | Stan | 5.7 | |
February 11th, 1975 | Shampoo | Party Guest (uncredited) | 6 | |
June 13th, 1971 | Drive, He Said | Richard | 5.7 | |
April 7th, 1971 | The Zodiac Killer | Man in Bar #3 | 4.8 | |
June 1st, 1961 | Creature from the Haunted Sea | Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator | 3.7 | |
August 5th, 1960 | Last Woman on Earth | Martin Joyce | 4.4 | |
TBD | Robert Towne | TBD | TBD |