Robert Towne
Writing
1934-11-23 · San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
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
2019 · Movie
Salinger
2013 · Movie
Welcome to the Basement
2012 · Series
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Series
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
2010 · Movie
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · Movie
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · Movie
Making of Chinatown
2007 · Movie
Mad Men
2007 · Series
Ask the Dust
2006 · Movie
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Movie
Suspect Zero
2004 · Movie
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Movie
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002 · Movie
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Movie
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001 · Movie
Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Movie
Without Limits
1998 · Movie
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998 · Movie
Cadillac Desert
1997 · Series
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Movie
Love Affair
1994 · Movie
The Firm
1993 · Movie
Halloween Monster Bash
1991 · Movie
The Two Jakes
1990 · Movie
Days of Thunder
1990 · Movie
Tequila Sunrise
1988 · Movie
Frantic
1988 · Movie
The Pick-up Artist
1987 · Movie
Tough Guys Don't Dance
1987 · Movie
The Bedroom Window
1987 · Movie
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 · Movie
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Movie
Deal of the Century
1983 · Movie
Personal Best
1982 · Movie
Heaven Can Wait
1978 · Movie
Shampoo
1975 · Movie
The Yakuza
1974 · Movie
Chinatown
1974 · Movie
The Parallax View
1974 · Movie
The Last Detail
1973 · Movie
The New Centurions
1972 · Movie
The Godfather
1972 · Movie
Cisco Pike
1972 · Movie
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Movie
Drive, He Said
1971 · Movie
The Zodiac Killer
1971 · Movie
Villa Rides
1968 · Movie
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964 · Movie
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Series
The Outer Limits
1963 · Series
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962 · Series
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961 · Movie
Last Woman on Earth
1960 · Movie
Robert Towne
Movie
Battle of Britain
Movie