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Robert Towne
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1934-11-23,San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender
Male
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.

Filmography

Creature from the Haunted Sea

3.645

Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961-06-01

Last Woman on Earth

4.444

Last Woman on Earth
1960-08-05

5.6

Drive, He Said
1971-06-13

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

4.6

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008-03-25

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

7

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005-12-21

6.043

Shampoo
1975-02-11

5.545

Suspect Zero
2004-08-27

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

6.7

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019-03-22

The Pick-up Artist

5.658

The Pick-up Artist
1987-09-18

The Zodiac Killer

4.839

The Zodiac Killer
1971-04-07

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

6

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998-02-04

A Sad Flower in the Sand

0

A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001-01-01

6.377

Salinger
2013-09-06

Rescued from the Closet

6.5

Rescued from the Closet
2001-05-29

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

8.5

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008-05-15

A Decade Under the Influence

7.92

A Decade Under the Influence
2003-04-25

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

8

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002-04-02

0

Robert Towne

Halloween Monster Bash

0

Halloween Monster Bash
1991-10-27

Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible

0

Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
2010-08-03

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

7.682

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011-09-03

Cadillac Desert

0

Cadillac Desert
1997-06-24