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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1934-11-23
- event Death Date 2024-07-01
- school Known for: Writing
- star Popularity: 1.6
- info Birth Place San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Robert Towne
3.6
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961-06-01
4.4
Last Woman on Earth
1960-08-05
5.7
Drive, He Said
1971-06-13
4.6
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008-03-25
6.7
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005-12-21
6
Shampoo
1975-02-11
5.6
Suspect Zero
2004-08-27
6.7
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019-03-22
5.6
The Pick-up Artist
1987-09-18
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997-06-24
4.7
The Zodiac Killer
1971-04-07
6
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998-02-04
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A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001-01-01
6.4
Salinger
2013-09-06
6
Rescued from the Closet
2001-05-29
8.5
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008-05-15
7.9
A Decade Under the Influence
2003-04-25
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002-04-02
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011-09-03
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Tequila Sunrise
1988-12-02
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Tequila Sunrise
1988-12-02
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Ask the Dust
2006-02-02
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Ask the Dust
2006-02-02
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Mission: Impossible II
2000-05-24
7.7
Mission: Impossible
1996-05-22
7.7
Days of Thunder
1990-06-27
7.7
Without Limits
1998-09-11
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Without Limits
1998-09-11
7.7
Shampoo
1975-02-11
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The Two Jakes
1990-08-10
7.7
Personal Best
1982-02-05
7.7
The Yakuza
1974-12-21
7.7
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964-11-01
7.7
The Firm
1993-06-30
7.7
The Last Detail
1973-12-11
7.7
Love Affair
1994-10-21
7.7
Villa Rides
1968-05-29
7.7
Last Woman on Earth
1960-08-05
7.7
Personal Best
1982-02-05
7.7
The Two Jakes
1990-08-10
7.7
The New Centurions
1972-08-03
7.7
8 Million Ways to Die
1986-04-25
7.7
Tough Guys Don't Dance
1987-09-18
7.7
Frantic
1988-02-19
7.7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971-06-24
7.7
Cisco Pike
1971-11-02
7.7
Deal of the Century
1983-11-04
7.7
Bonnie and Clyde
1967-08-13
7.7
Heaven Can Wait
1978-06-28
7.7
The Parallax View
1974-06-14
7.7
Drive, He Said
1971-06-13
7.7
Personal Best
1982-02-05
7.7
8 Million Ways to Die
1986-04-25
7.7
Days of Thunder
1990-06-27
7.7
The Bedroom Window
1987-01-16
7.7
Battle of Britain
7.7
Chinatown
1974-06-20
7.7
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984-03-30
7.7
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962-09-11
7.7
The Outer Limits
1963-09-16
7.7
Welcome to the Basement
2012-01-13
7.7
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964-09-22