Writing
Robert Towne
EN, JA cinema · 53 credits
Born
23 November 1934
Died
1 July 2024 (aged 89)
Birthplace
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
Also known as P. H. Vasak · Роберт Таун · Robert Bertram Schwartz
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.
Known for
Filmography
Days of Thunder 2
Characters
Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
Ask the Dust
Director, Screenplay
Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
Mission: Impossible II
Screenplay
Without Limits
Writer, Director
Mission: Impossible
Screenplay
Love Affair
Screenplay
The Firm
Screenplay
Halloween Monster Bash
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)
Days of Thunder
Screenplay, Story
The Two Jakes
Writer, Characters
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Story Consultant
Tequila Sunrise
Screenplay, Director
Frantic
Additional Writing
Tough Guys Don't Dance
Additional Writing
The Bedroom Window
Executive Producer
8 Million Ways to Die
Additional Writing, Writer
Deal of the Century
Additional Writing
Personal Best
Director, Producer, Writer
Heaven Can Wait
Additional Writing
Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited), Writer
The Yakuza
Screenplay
The Parallax View
Additional Writing
Chinatown
Writer
The Last Detail
Screenplay
The New Centurions
Additional Writing
Cisco Pike
Additional Writing
The Godfather
Story Editor
Drive, He Said
as Richard, Additional Writing
The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Additional Writing
Villa Rides
Screenplay
Bonnie and Clyde
Additional Writing
The Tomb of Ligeia
Screenplay
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce, Screenplay