Robert Towne
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Towne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of cont...
Known For
Top 19 Movies
Shampoo
1975
Suspect Zero
2004
Salinger
2013
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
The Pick-up Artist
1987
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Rescued from the Closet
2001
Drive, He Said
1971
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Last Woman on Earth
1960
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
The Zodiac Killer
1971
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001
Robert Towne
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