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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Towne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (25)
Ask the Dust
Suspect Zero
Mission: Impossible II
Mission: Impossible
Love Affair
The Firm
The Two Jakes
Days of Thunder
Tequila Sunrise
Frantic
The Pick-up Artist
The Bedroom Window
Tough Guys Don't Dance
8 Million Ways to Die
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Deal of the Century
Heaven Can Wait
Shampoo
Chinatown
The Parallax View
The Yakuza
The Last Detail
The New Centurions
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
