Robert Towne Movies and TV Shows
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Towne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Gender: Male
- Date of birth: 11/23/1934 (89 years old)
- Place of birth: San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
- nationality: American
- Net worth: $40,000,000
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- Some movies or TV shows available in the United States starring or involving Robert Towne are, for example, What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael, Salinger and The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
- The streaming services with the largest selection are Prime Video, Amazon and iTunes.
- The best Anystream ratings are The Story of Film: An Odyssey (8.5), You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (8.3) and Chinatown (8.0).