Robert Towne

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Writing

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.

Filmography

• Days of Thunder 2 (2028)
• Ray Gunn (2026)
• What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
• Salinger (2013)
• Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible (2010)
• You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008)
• Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008)
• Making of Chinatown (2007)
• Ask the Dust (2006)
• Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
• Suspect Zero (2004)
• A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
• Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)
• Rescued from the Closet (2001)
• A Sad Flower in the Sand (2001)
• Mission: Impossible II (2000)
• Without Limits (1998)
• Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy (1998)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• Love Affair (1994)
• The Firm (1993)
• Halloween Monster Bash (1991)
• The Two Jakes (1990)
• Days of Thunder (1990)
• Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
• Tequila Sunrise (1988)
• Frantic (1988)
• The Pick-up Artist (1987)
• Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
• The Bedroom Window (1987)
• 8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
• Deal of the Century (1983)
• Personal Best (1982)
• Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• Shampoo (1975)
• The Yakuza (1974)
• Chinatown (1974)
• The Parallax View (1974)
• The Last Detail (1973)
• The New Centurions (1972)
• The Godfather (1972)
• Cisco Pike (1972)
• McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
• Drive, He Said (1971)
• The Zodiac Killer (1971)
• Villa Rides (1968)
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
• The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• Last Woman on Earth (1960)
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• Battle of Britain