Robert Towne
Known for: Writing
Born: November 23, 1934
Died: July 1, 2024
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 W…
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A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001
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Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
Last Woman on Earth
1960
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
Drive, He Said
1971
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
Salinger
2013
The Pick-up Artist
1987
The Zodiac Killer
1971
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Cadillac Desert
1997
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Rescued from the Closet
2001
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Suspect Zero
2004
Halloween Monster Bash
1991
Shampoo
1975