Robert Towne
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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 (…
Also known as
P. H. Vasak · Роберт Таун · Robert Bertram Schwartz
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Known For
Mad Men
2007 · TV
The Godfather
1972 · Movie
The Outer Limits
1963 · TV
Mission: Impossible
1996 · Movie
Mission: Impossible II
2000 · Movie
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · TV
Welcome to the Basement
2012 · TV
Chinatown
1974 · Movie
The Firm
1993 · Movie
Days of Thunder
1990 · Movie
The Lloyd Bridges Show
1962 · TV
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie