Peter Bogdanovich
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Peter Bogdanovich ComSE (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. He started his career as a film critic for Film Culture and Esquire before becoming a prominent filmmaker as part of the New Hollywood movement. He received accolades including a BAFTA Award and Grammy Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Bogdanovich worked as a film journalist until he was hired to work on Roger Corman's The Wild Angels (1966). His credited feature film debut came with Targets (1968), before his career breakthrough with the drama The Last Picture Show (1971) which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and the acclaimed films What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). Other films include Saint Jack (1979), They All Laughed (1981), Mask (1985), Noises Off (1992), The Cat's Meow (2001), and She's Funny That Way (2014). As an actor, he was known for his roles in HBO series The Sopranos and Orson Welles's last film The Other Side of the Wind (2018), which he also helped finish. He received a Grammy Award for Best Music Film for directing the Tom Petty documentary Runnin' Down a Dream (2007). Bogdanovich directed documentaries such as Directed by John Ford (1971) and The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018). He also published numerous books, some of which include in-depth interviews with friends Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles. Bogdanovich's works have been cited as important influences by many major filmmakers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Bogdanovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
It Chapter Two (2019)
as Peter - Director
The Last Picture Show (1971)
as DJ (voice) (uncredited)
Audrey (2020)
as Self - Filmmaker
Mr. Jealousy (1998)
as Dr. Howard Poke
Saint Jack (1979)
as Eddie Schuman
Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
as Self
She's Funny That Way (2015)
as Self in TV clip (uncredited)
Pearly Gates (2015)
as Marty
Scene Stealers (2004)
as Peter Bogdanovich
While We're Young (2015)
as Speaker
Corman's World (2011)
as Self - Filmmaker
Picture This (1991)
as Self
Are You Here (2013)
as Judge Harlan Plath
Invisible Women (—)
as Self
Infamous (2006)
as Bennett Cerf
F for Fake (1973)
as Self
Carl Laemmle (2019)
as Himself
Directed by John Ford (1971)
as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
54 (1998)
as Elaine's Patron
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema (2021)
as Self
I Am Burt Reynolds (2020)
as Self - Interviewee
Opening Night (1977)
as Self (uncredited)
Targets (1968)
as Sammy Michaels
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)
as Self
F. (1999)
as Self
The Tell-Tale Heart (2016)
as Old Man
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides (2011)
as Self
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)
as Self
We Blew It (2017)
as Self
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
as Self
New York at the Movies (2002)
as Self
Coming Soon (1999)
as Bartholomew
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
as Brooks Otterlake
Godard Made in USA (2010)
as Self
Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1997)
as Self
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006)
as Self
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? (1972)
as Self
The Wild Angels (1966)
as Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
as Narrator (voice)
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas (2007)
as Self
They All Laughed (1981)
as Disk Jockey (uncredited)
78/52 (2017)
as Self
Abandoned (2010)
as Dr. Markus Bensley
The Trip (1967)
as Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
Rated X (2000)
as Film Professor
By Bogdanovich (2011)
as Self
Lions Love (1969)
as Peter (uncredited)
Arena - John Cassavetes (1989)
as Self
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977)
as Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (voice)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003)
as Self
Bella Mafia (1997)
as Vito Giancamo
Humboldt County (2008)
as Professor Hadley
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great (1994)
as Self
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
as Self
The Trouble with 'Marnie' (2000)
as Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021)
as Self
Casting By (2012)
as Self
The Independent (2000)
as Peter Bogdanovich
Durant's Never Closes (2016)
as George
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
as Narrator (voice)
Los Angeles Overnight (2018)
as Vedor Ph.D.
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
as Self - Filmmaker
Reborn (2018)
as Peter Bogdanovich
Dean Martin: King of Cool (2021)
as Self
John Wayne Standing Tall (1989)
as Self
Barry Norman in Celebrity City (1982)
as Self
Horrifying Hollywood Murders (—)
as Self
Highball (2002)
as Frank
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)
as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991)
as Self
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020)
as Self
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
All About 'The Birds' (2000)
as Self
Birth of a Nation (1997)
as Self
Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)
as Self
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh (2014)
as Self
Festival in Cannes (2001)
as Milo
Fragments of Paradise (2022)
as Self
Picture Windows: Song of Songs (1994)
as Lucca
Between Us (2016)
as George
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius (1999)
as Self
The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20 (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001)
as Himself
Lick the Star (1998)
as Principal
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
as Self (voice)
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (2009)
as Self
The Next Picture Show (2003)
as Self
Six L.A. Love Stories (2016)
as Duane Crawford
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
as Self
Willie and Me (2024)
as Charley
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen (2004)
as Self
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man (2012)
as Self
This Is Orson Welles (2015)
as Self
The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)
as Self
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back (1999)
as Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
as Self
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster (2008)
as Self
The Complete 'Citizen Kane' (1991)
as Self
Dedication (2007)
as Roger Spade
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film (2014)
as Self
Cult of Terror (2017)
as Self - Filmmaker
Broken English (2007)
as Irving Mann
365 Day Project (2007)
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
as Self
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs (1998)
as Self
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story (2011)
as Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002)
as Self
Love in Hollywood (1996)
as Self
The Death of Playboy Playmate (1995)
Actor
Out of the Blue and Into the Black (1987)
as Self
Wanderlust (2006)
as Himself
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story (1985)
Actor
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' (2009)
as Self
The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich (2000)
as Self
The Orson Welles Story (1982)
as Self
John Ford Goes to War (2002)
as Self - Interviewee
The Story of 'Frenzy' (2001)
as Self
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992)
as Self
Queen of the Lot (2010)
as Pedja Sapir
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! (1996)
Actor
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance (2010)
as Self
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' (2007)
as Self
Vittorio D. (2009)
as Self
The Creatress (2019)
as Theo Mencken
Morning Has Broken (2020)
as Shem
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making (2018)
as Self - Executive Producer, Actor
Edge of Outside (2006)
as Self
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' (2004)
as Self
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock (2004)
as Self
Hitchcock and Dial M (2004)
as Self
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995)
Actor
Hollywood Gangster (2008)
as Self
A Constant Forge (2000)
as Self
The Wild One (2023)
as Self
On Cukor (2000)
as Self
Don't Let Me Go (2013)
as Man
On the tracks of a filmmaker (1988)
as Peter Bogdanovich
The Informer: Out of the Fog (2006)
as Self
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths (2004)
as Self
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious' (2008)
Actor
Working with Orson Welles (1993)
as Himself
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons (2023)
as Self
The Fifth Patient (2007)
as John Reilly
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' (2004)
as Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood (1999)
as Self
Getting the Moon (2003)
as Self
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote (2000)
as Self
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth (2009)
as Self
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic (2001)
as Self
Claire Makes It Big (1999)
as Arturo Mulligan
The Dukes (2007)
as Lou Fiola
Cold Turkey (2013)
as Poppy
Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis (2016)
as Self
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' (2000)
as Self
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II (1993)
as Self
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') (2002)
as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009)
as Self
The Definition of Insanity (2005)
Actor
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger (2006)
as Self
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story (2010)
as Self
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess (2004)
as Self
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten (2013)
as Self
The Making of 'Rebecca' (2008)
as Self
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film (2000)
as Self
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali (2008)
as Self
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals (2005)
as Self
Howard Hawks: American Artist (1997)
as Self
Il falso bugiardo (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
as Self
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (2004)
as Self
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film (1990)
as Self
Heavy Rain (2010)
as Himself
3D: A Brief History (2004)
Actor
Bacall on Bogart (1988)
as Self
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption (2006)
as Self - Director, Writer, Actor
Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' (2008)
as Self
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (2009)
as Self
The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger' (2008)
Actor
Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies (1987)
as Self
Notes on the New York Film Festival (1971)
as Self
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (2022)
as Self
An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich (2010)
as Self
Hawks on Hawks (2017)
as Self (voice)
Hollywood Legenden (2004)
as Self
Hollywood Scandals (2011)
as Self
Tesla Nation (2018)
as Self
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today (2010)
as Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved (2010)
as Self
The Doorman (2008)
as Peter
A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River (2014)
as Self
'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich (2004)
as Self
Searching for Orson (2006)
as Narrator
Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg (1998)
as Himself