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.
Filmography
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
as Self
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
Making of Chinatown
Making of Chinatown
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
A Sad Flower in the Sand
as Self
A Sad Flower in the Sand
as Self
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
Halloween Monster Bash
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)
Halloween Monster Bash
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)
The Pick-up Artist
as Stan
The Pick-up Artist
as Stan
Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Drive, He Said
as Richard
Drive, He Said
as Richard
The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce
Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce
Robert Towne
Robert Towne