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.
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).
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Filmography (Movies)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Character:Self
Release Date:22/03/2019
Salinger
Character:Self - Screenwriter
Release Date:06/09/2013
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Character:Self
Release Date:15/05/2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Character:Self
Release Date:25/03/2008
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Character:Self
Release Date:21/12/2005
Suspect Zero
Character:Professor Dates (uncredited)
Release Date:27/08/2004
A Decade Under the Influence
Character:Self
Release Date:25/04/2003
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Character:Self (uncredited)
Release Date:02/04/2002
Rescued from the Closet
Character:Self
Release Date:29/05/2001
A Sad Flower in the Sand
Character:Self
Release Date:01/01/2001
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Character:Self
Release Date:04/02/1998
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Character:Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
Release Date:24/06/1997
The Pick-up Artist
Character:Stan
Release Date:18/09/1987
Shampoo
Character:Party Guest (uncredited)
Release Date:11/02/1975
Drive, He Said
Character:Richard
Release Date:13/06/1971
The Zodiac Killer
Character:Man in Bar #3
Release Date:07/04/1971
Creature from the Haunted Sea
Character:Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Release Date:01/06/1961
Last Woman on Earth
Character:Martin Joyce
Release Date:05/08/1960
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