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Robert Towne
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
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…
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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.
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2028
Days of Thunder 2
Movie Characters
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2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie Self
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2013
Salinger
Movie Self - Screenwriter
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2012
Welcome to the Basement
TV show Screenplay
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2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV show Self
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- 2008
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2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Movie Self
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2007
Making of Chinatown
Movie
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2007
Mad Men
TV show Consulting Producer
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2006
Ask the Dust
Movie Director
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2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Movie Self
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2004
Suspect Zero
Movie Professor Dates (uncredited)
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2003
A Decade Under the Influence
Movie Self
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2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2001
Rescued from the Closet
Movie Self
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2001
A Sad Flower in the Sand
Movie Self
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2000
Mission: Impossible II
Movie Screenplay
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1998
Without Limits
Movie Writer
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1998
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
Movie Self
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1997
Cadillac Desert
TV show Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
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1996
Mission: Impossible
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1994
Love Affair
Movie Screenplay
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1993
The Firm
Movie Screenplay
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1991
Halloween Monster Bash
Movie Sparks Moran (archive footage)
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1990
The Two Jakes
Movie Writer
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1990
Days of Thunder
Movie Screenplay
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1989
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Movie Story Consultant
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1988
Tequila Sunrise
Movie Screenplay
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1988
Frantic
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1987
The Pick-up Artist
Movie Stan
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1987
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Movie Additional Writing
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1987
The Bedroom Window
Movie Executive Producer
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1986
8 Million Ways to Die
Movie Additional Writing
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1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Movie Screenplay
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1983
Deal of the Century
Movie Additional Writing
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1982
Personal Best
Movie Director
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1978
Heaven Can Wait
Movie Additional Writing
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1975
Shampoo
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
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1974
The Yakuza
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