Robert Towne
Writing
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.
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Age 26 (now 89)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Age 84 (now 89)
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Age 73 (now 89)
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
Age 73 (now 89)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Age 71 (now 89)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
Age 67 (now 89)
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'
Age 62 (now 89)
Halloween Monster Bash
as Sparks Moran (archive footage)
Age 56 (now 89)
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Screenplay
Age 49 (now 89)
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
Age 26 (now 89)
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Also Known As
P. H. Vasak, Роберт Таун
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