Robert Towne
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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Fotos
Películas (53)
Days of Thunder 2
2028 · Characters
Ray Gunn
2026 · Thanks
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019 · Self
Salinger
2013 · Self - Screenwriter
Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible
2010 · Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008 · Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · Self
Making of Chinatown
2007
Ask the Dust
2006 · Screenplay, Director
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Self
Suspect Zero
2004 · Professor Dates (uncredited)
A Decade Under the Influence
2003 · Self
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002 · Self (uncredited)
Rescued from the Closet
2001 · Self
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001 · Self
Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Screenplay
Without Limits
1998 · Writer, Director
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998 · Self
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Screenplay
Love Affair
1994 · Screenplay
The Firm
1993 · Screenplay
Halloween Monster Bash
1991 · Sparks Moran (archive footage)
The Two Jakes
1990 · Writer, Characters
Days of Thunder
1990 · Screenplay, Story
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
1989 · Story Consultant
Tequila Sunrise
1988 · Screenplay, Director
Frantic
1988 · Additional Writing
The Pick-up Artist
1987 · Stan
Tough Guys Don't Dance
1987 · Additional Writing
The Bedroom Window
1987 · Executive Producer
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 · Additional Writing, Writer
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984 · Screenplay
Deal of the Century
1983 · Additional Writing
Personal Best
1982 · Director, Producer, Writer
Heaven Can Wait
1978 · Additional Writing
Shampoo
1975 · Party Guest (uncredited), Writer
The Yakuza
1974 · Screenplay
Chinatown
1974 · Writer
The Parallax View
1974 · Additional Writing
The Last Detail
1973 · Screenplay
The New Centurions
1972 · Additional Writing
El Padrino
1972 · Story Editor
Cisco Pike
1972 · Additional Writing
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Additional Writing
Drive, He Said
1971 · Richard, Additional Writing
The Zodiac Killer
1971 · Man in Bar #3
Villa Rides
1968 · Screenplay
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Additional Writing
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964 · Screenplay
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961 · Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Last Woman on Earth
1960 · Martin Joyce, Screenplay
Robert Towne
Battle of Britain
· Screenplay
