Robert Towne
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- DramaChinatown
- DramaThe Firm
- CrimeTequila Sunrise
- CrimeTequila Sunrise
- ActionDays of Thunder
- DramaPersonal Best
- DramaThe Tomb of Ligeia
- ComedyCreature from the Haunted Sea
- DramaLast Woman on Earth
- DramaLast Woman on Earth
- WarVilla Rides
- ComedyDeal of the Century
- ComedyDrive, He Said
- CrimeThe Two Jakes
- DramaMcCabe & Mrs. Miller
- ComedyThe Last Detail
- ActionThe Yakuza
- DramaWithout Limits
- CrimeThe Two Jakes
- AdventureGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
- CrimeThe Bedroom Window
- DramaWithout Limits
- AdventureOrca
- ComedyDrive, He Said
- ComedyHeaven Can Wait
- ComedyLove Affair
- DramaPersonal Best
- DramaPersonal Best
- CrimeFrantic
- CrimeFrantic
- DramaAsk the Dust
- DramaPersonal Best
- ActionBonnie and Clyde
- ActionBonnie and Clyde
- DramaAsk the Dust
- Action8 Million Ways to Die
- ComedyShampoo
- DramaThe Parallax View
- Action8 Million Ways to Die
- HorrorThe Zodiac Killer
- DocumentaryYou Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
- ActionMission: Impossible
- ActionMission: Impossible II
- CrimeSuspect Zero
- ComedyShampoo
- DocumentaryA Sad Flower in the Sand
- DocumentaryRevolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
- ActionThe New Centurions
- DramaCisco Pike
- ComedyTough Guys Don't Dance
- DocumentaryWhat She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
- DocumentaryBilly Wilder: The Human Comedy
- DocumentaryCadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
- ComedyThe Pick-up Artist
- DocumentaryRescued from the Closet
- DocumentaryA Decade Under the Influence
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Robert Towne
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Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is 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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- Place of Birth
- San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
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