Robert Towne
Writer, Producer, Actor, Director
November 23, 1934 — July 1, 2024 (89 years)
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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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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| 2012 | Welcome To The Basement · as Screenplay |
| 2006 | Ask the Dust · as Screenplay |
| 2000 | Mission: Impossible II · as Screenplay |
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| 1996 | Mission: Impossible · as Screenplay |
| 1994 | Love Affair · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1993 | The Firm · as Screenplay |
| 1990 | |
| 1990 | Days of Thunder · as Screenplay |
| 1988 | Tequila Sunrise · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
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| 1984 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1983 | Deal of the CenturyOn Plex |
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| 1974 | The Yakuza · as Screenplay |
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| 1973 | The Last Detail · as Screenplay |
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| 1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1971 | Drive, He Said · as Screenplay |
| 1968 | Villa Rides · as Screenplay |
| 1967 | |
| 1964 | The Tomb of Ligeia · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | |
| 1963 | The Outer LimitsOn Plex |
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| 1960 | Last Woman on Earth · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 2007 | Mad Men · as Consulting ProducerOn Plex |
| 1987 | The Bedroom Window · as Executive Producer |
| 1982 |
| 2004 | Suspect Zero · as Professor Dates (uncredited) |
| 2004 | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made · as CastOn Plex |
| 1987 | The Pick-up Artist · as Stan |
| 1975 | Shampoo · as Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1971 | Drive, He Said · as Richard |
| 1971 | The Zodiac Killer · as Man In Bar #3On Plex |
| 1961 | Creature from the Haunted Sea · as Sparks Moran / Agent Xk150 / NarratorOn Plex |
| 1960 | Last Woman on Earth · as Martin JoyceOn Plex |
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| 1988 | Tequila SunriseOn Plex |
| 1982 |
| 2018 | Hal · as Self |
| 2018 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · as SelfOn Plex |
| 2016 | A Classy Broad · as Self |
| 2013 | Salinger · as Self - Screenwriter |
| 2011 | The Story of Film: An Odyssey · as SelfOn Plex |
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| 2006 | 50 Films to See Before You Die · as Self |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That · as Self |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: An American Original · as Self |
| 2005 | The Outsider · as Self |
| 2003 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains · as Self |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence · as Self |
| 2002 | The Kid Stays in the Picture · as Self |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film · as Self (uncredited) |
| 2001 | Rescued from the Closet · as Self |
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| 1999 | The Century: America's Time · as Self - Screenwriter |
| 1998 | |
| 1997 | Cadillac Desert · as Self - Screenwriter, 'chinatown' |
| 1985 | American Masters · as Self |
| 1975 | 47th Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Winner |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award · as Self |
| 2028 | Untitled Days of Thunder Sequel · as Characters |
| 1989 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland · as Story Consultant |
| 1972 | The Godfather · as Story Editor |
| 1963 | Breaking Point · as Teleplay |