Cast
Robert Towne
Writing
Cast
Robert Towne
Known for
Writing
Born
1934-11-23
From
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
2024-07-01
Also known as P. H. Vasak, Роберт Таун
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 contributors on Wikipedia.
Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited)
The Pick-up Artist
as Stan
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Drive, He Said
as Richard
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce
The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
Halloween Monster Bash
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)
Robert Towne
A Sad Flower in the Sand
as Self