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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Birthday
November 23, 1934
Died
July 1, 2024
Place of Birth
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- P. H. Vasak
- Роберт Таун
Robert Towne
0.6 Popularity
Biography
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).
Known For
6.6
Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
6.4
Self - Screenwriter
Salinger
2013
7.6
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
8.5
Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
4.6
Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
7.0
Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
5.6
Professor Dates (uncredited)
Suspect Zero
2004
4.6
Agent XK150 (archive footage)
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004
8.0
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
🎬
0.0
Self (uncredited)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
Credits
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
2019
6.6
Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
2013
6.4
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
2011
7.6
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
2008
8.5
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
2008
4.6
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
2005
7.0
Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
2004
5.6
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
as Agent XK150 (archive footage)
2004
4.6
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
8.0
🎬
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
2002
0.0
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
2001
6.0
A Sad Flower in the Sand
as Self
2001
0.0
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
1998
6.0
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
1997
0.0
The Pick-up Artist
as Stan
1987
5.7
Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1975
6.0
Drive, He Said
as Richard
1971
6.0
The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
1971
4.8
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
1961
3.5
Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce
1960
4.4