Writer
Robert Towne
91 years · San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA · 36 films
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.
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Filmography 35
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019 · Self
On Plex
Salinger
2013 · Self - Screenwriter
On Kanopy
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · Self
Making of Chinatown
2007 · Actor
Ask the Dust
2006 · Screenplay, Director
On fuboTV
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Self
Suspect Zero
2004 · Professor Dates (uncredited)
On Hoopla
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Self
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001 · Self
Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Screenplay
On Kanopy
Without Limits
1998 · Writer, Director
On YouTube Free
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998 · Self
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Screenplay
On Kanopy
Love Affair
1994 · Screenplay
On Plex
The Firm
1993 · Screenplay
On fuboTV
Halloween Monster Bash
1991 · Sparks Moran (archive footage)
The Two Jakes
1990 · Writer
On Kanopy
Days of Thunder
1990 · Screenplay
On fuboTV
Tequila Sunrise
1988 · Screenplay, Director
On Plex
The Pick-up Artist
1987 · Stan
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 · Writer
On The CW
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Screenplay
On Plex