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
Salinger (2013)
as Self - Screenwriter
Shampoo (1975)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pick-up Artist (1987)
as Stan
Suspect Zero (2004)
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible (2010)
as Self
Robert Towne (—)
Actor
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
as Martin Joyce
Making of Chinatown (2007)
Actor
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
as Self
Rescued from the Closet (2001)
as Self
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)
as Self (uncredited)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
as Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008)
as Self
Drive, He Said (1971)
as Richard
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy (1998)
as Self
A Sad Flower in the Sand (2001)
as Self
The Zodiac Killer (1971)
as Man in Bar #3
Halloween Monster Bash (1991)
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)