Robert Towne
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- November 23, 1934
- Place of birth
- San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- July 1, 2024
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).
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Movies with Robert Towne
- Suspect Zero 2004 · ★ 5.6
- Shampoo 1975 · ★ 6.0
- The Pick-up Artist 1987 · ★ 5.6
- Salinger 2013 · ★ 6.4
- Last Woman on Earth 1960 · ★ 4.5
- Creature from the Haunted Sea 1961 · ★ 3.6
- A Decade Under the Influence 2003 · ★ 7.9
- The Zodiac Killer 1971 · ★ 4.7
- Drive, He Said 1971 · ★ 5.6
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael 2019 · ★ 6.7
- You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story 2008 · ★ 8.5
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That 2005 · ★ 7.0
- Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2008 · ★ 4.6
- Rescued from the Closet 2001 · ★ 6.5
- Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy 1998 · ★ 6.0
- Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film 2002 · ★ 8.0
- Halloween Monster Bash 1991 · ★ 3.0
- A Sad Flower in the Sand 2001
- Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible 2010
- Making of Chinatown 2007
Movies directed by Robert Towne
- Tequila Sunrise 1988 · ★ 6.1
- Ask the Dust 2006 · ★ 5.5
- Without Limits 1998 · ★ 6.7
- Personal Best 1982 · ★ 5.9