Robert Towne Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Robert Towne

Robert Towne

Writing

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Creature from the Haunted Sea movie poster
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Creature from the Haunted Sea

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Creature from the Haunted Sea
Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Last Woman on Earth movie poster
MOVIE

Last Woman on Earth

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Last Woman on Earth
Martin Joyce
Drive, He Said movie poster
MOVIE

Drive, He Said

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Drive, He Said
Richard
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' movie poster
MOVIE

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

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Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That movie poster
MOVIE

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
Suspect Zero movie poster
MOVIE

Suspect Zero

5.6(0.4K)
Suspect Zero
Professor Dates (uncredited)
Shampoo movie poster
MOVIE

Shampoo

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Shampoo
Party Guest (uncredited)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael movie poster
MOVIE

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
The Pick-up Artist movie poster
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The Pick-up Artist

5.7(0.2K)
The Pick-up Artist
Stan
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature movie poster
MOVIE

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'

Production

Tequila Sunrise movie poster
MOVIE

Tequila Sunrise

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Tequila Sunrise
Director
Tequila Sunrise movie poster
MOVIE

Tequila Sunrise

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Tequila Sunrise
Screenplay
Ask the Dust movie poster
MOVIE

Ask the Dust

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Ask the Dust
Screenplay
Ask the Dust movie poster
MOVIE

Ask the Dust

5.4(0.2K)
Ask the Dust
Director
Mission: Impossible movie poster
MOVIE

Mission: Impossible

7.0(10.0K)
Mission: Impossible
Screenplay
Mission: Impossible II movie poster
MOVIE

Mission: Impossible II

6.1(7.6K)
Mission: Impossible II
Screenplay
Days of Thunder movie poster
MOVIE

Days of Thunder

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Days of Thunder
Screenplay
Without Limits movie poster
MOVIE

Without Limits

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Without Limits
Director
Without Limits movie poster
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Without Limits

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Without Limits
Writer
Shampoo movie poster
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Shampoo

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Shampoo
Writer

Gallery

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