Robert Towne
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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.
Known for
Credits
Suspect Zero (2004)
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
Shampoo (1975)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pick-up Artist (1987)
as Stan
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
as Self
Salinger (2013)
as Self - Screenwriter
Drive, He Said (1971)
as Richard
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)
as Self (uncredited)
Rescued from the Closet (2001)
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008)
as Self
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
as Martin Joyce
The Zodiac Killer (1971)
as Man in Bar #3
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature (1997)
as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy (1998)
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
as Self
Halloween Monster Bash (1991)
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)
Robert Towne (—)
Actor
A Sad Flower in the Sand (2001)
as Self