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Robert Towne

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.

On screen

  • What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
  • Salinger
  • Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
  • You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
  • Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
  • Suspect Zero
  • A Decade Under the Influence
  • A Sad Flower in the Sand
  • Rescued from the Closet
  • Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
  • Halloween Monster Bash
  • The Pick-up Artist
  • Shampoo
  • Drive, He Said
  • The Zodiac Killer
  • Creature from the Haunted Sea
  • Last Woman on Earth
  • Robert Towne

Behind the camera

  • Ask the Dust
  • Mission: Impossible II
  • Without Limits
  • Mission: Impossible
  • Love Affair
  • The Firm
  • Days of Thunder
  • The Two Jakes
  • Tequila Sunrise
  • 8 Million Ways to Die
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
  • Personal Best
  • Shampoo
  • The Yakuza
  • Chinatown
  • The Last Detail
  • Villa Rides
  • The Tomb of Ligeia
  • Last Woman on Earth

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