Robert Towne
Birthday
1934/11/23
Day of death
2024/07/01 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
Also know 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 W...Read more
Acting
(1961) Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
(1960) Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce
(1971) Drive, He Said
as Richard
(2008) Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
(2005) Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
(1975) Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(2004) Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
(2019) What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
(1987) The Pick-up Artist
as Stan
(1997) Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
(2004) The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
as Agent XK150 (archive footage)
(1971) The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
(1998) Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
(2001) A Sad Flower in the Sand
as Self
(2013) Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
(2001) Rescued from the Closet
as Self
(2008) You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
(2003) A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
(2002) Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
(2011) The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
(1998) AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
as Self