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Robert Towne
Writing
23 Nov 1934
† 01 Jul 2024
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
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 W...
Also Known As
P. H. Vasak, Роберт Таун
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Robert Towne's Movies
55%
Suspect Zero
27 Aug 2004
60%
Shampoo
11 Feb 1975
56%
The Pick-up Artist
18 Sept 1987
63%
Salinger
06 Sept 2013
44%
Last Woman on Earth
05 Aug 1960
36%
Creature from the Haunted Sea
01 Jun 1961
79%
A Decade Under the Influence
25 Apr 2003
47%
The Zodiac Killer
07 Apr 1971
57%
Drive, He Said
13 Jun 1971
67%
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
22 Mar 2019
85%
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
15 May 2008
67%
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
21 Dec 2005
46%
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
25 Mar 2008
60%
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
04 Feb 1998
60%
Rescued from the Closet
29 May 2001
0%
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
24 Jun 1997
0%
A Sad Flower in the Sand
01 Jan 2001
0%
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
02 Apr 2002
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