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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).
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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: 2.7
- 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
4.5
Last Woman on Earth
1960-08-05
6
Drive, He Said
1971-06-13
4.6
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008-03-25
7
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005-12-21
6
Shampoo
1975-02-11
5.6
Suspect Zero
2004-08-27
6.6
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019-03-22
5.6
The Pick-up Artist
1987-09-18
0
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997-06-24
4.6
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004-07-13
4.9
The Zodiac Killer
1971-04-07
6
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998-02-04
0
A Sad Flower in the Sand
2001-01-01
6.3
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
8
A Decade Under the Influence
2003-04-25
0
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002-04-02
7.6
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011-09-03
8.2
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
1998-06-23
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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
8.2
Mission: Impossible II
2000-05-24
8.2
Mission: Impossible
1996-05-22
8.2
Days of Thunder
1990-06-27
8.2
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984-03-30
8.2
Without Limits
1998-09-11
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Without Limits
1998-09-11
8.2
Shampoo
1975-02-11
8.2
The Two Jakes
1990-08-10
8.2
Personal Best
1982-02-05
8.2
The Yakuza
1974-12-21
8.2
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964-11-29
8.2
The Firm
1993-06-30
8.2
The Last Detail
1973-12-11
8.2
Love Affair
1994-10-21
8.2
Villa Rides
1968-05-29
8.2
Last Woman on Earth
1960-08-05
8.2
Personal Best
1982-02-05
8.2
The Two Jakes
1990-08-10
8.2
The New Centurions
1972-08-03
8.2
8 Million Ways to Die
1986-04-25
8.2
Tough Guys Don't Dance
1987-09-18
8.2
Frantic
1988-02-19
8.2
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971-06-24
8.2
Cisco Pike
1972-01-14
8.2
Deal of the Century
1983-11-04
8.2
Bonnie and Clyde
1967-08-13
8.2
Heaven Can Wait
1978-06-28
8.2
The Parallax View
1974-06-14
8.2
Drive, He Said
1971-06-13
8.2
Personal Best
1982-02-05
8.2
8 Million Ways to Die
1986-04-25
8.2
Days of Thunder
1990-06-27
8.2
The Bedroom Window
1987-01-16
8.2
Battle of Britain
8.2
Chinatown
1974-06-20
8.2
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962-09-11
8.2
The Outer Limits
1963-09-16
8.2
Welcome to the Basement
2012-01-13