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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…
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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.
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2024
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
Movie Self (Archival Footage)
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2024
Willie and Me
Movie Charley
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2023
The Wild One
Movie Self
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2023
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Movie Self
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2022
Argentina 1985
Movie Thanks
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2022
Fragments of Paradise
Movie Self
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2021
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Movie Self
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2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Movie Self
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2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Movie Self
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2020
I Am Burt Reynolds
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2020
Audrey
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2020
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Movie Self
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2020
Morning Has Broken
Movie Shem
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2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
TV show Self
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2020
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Movie Self
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2020
Talking Sopranos
TV show Self
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2019
The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
It Chapter Two
Movie Peter - Director
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2019
The Creatress
Movie Theo Mencken
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2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie Self
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2019
Carl Laemmle
Movie Himself
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2018
Reborn
Movie Peter Bogdanovich
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2018
The Other Side of the Wind
Movie Brooks Otterlake
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2018
Tesla Nation
Movie Himself
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2018
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2018
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
Movie Self - Executive Producer, Actor
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2018
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Movie Self
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2018
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie Self
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2018
Los Angeles Overnight
Movie Vedor Ph.D.
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2017
We Blew It
Movie Self
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2017
Cult of Terror
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2017
78/52
Movie Self
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2017
Get Shorty
TV show Giustino Moreweather
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2017
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Movie Self (voice)
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2017
Hawks on Hawks
Movie Self (voice)
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2016
Six L.A. Love Stories
Movie Duane Crawford
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2016
Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis
Movie Himself
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2016
Between Us
Movie George
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2016
The Tell-Tale Heart
Movie Old Man
