Robert Towne

Robert Towne

Birthday: 1934-11-23

Deathday: 2024-07-01

Place of birth: San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

Also known as: P. H. Vasak, Роберт Таун

imdb_id: nm0001801

Biography:

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).

Played in movies:

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

Score: 8.5

A Decade Under the Influence

Score: 8.0

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Score: 7.0

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Score: 6.6

Salinger

Score: 6.4

Rescued from the Closet

Score: 6.0

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

Score: 6.0

Drive, He Said

Score: 6.0

Shampoo

Score: 6.0

The Pick-up Artist

Score: 5.7

Suspect Zero

Score: 5.6

The Zodiac Killer

Score: 4.9

The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made

Score: 4.6

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

Score: 4.6

Last Woman on Earth

Score: 4.4

Creature from the Haunted Sea

Score: 3.6

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Score: 0.0

A Sad Flower in the Sand

Score: 0.0

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

Score: 8.3

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

Score: 7.6