Robert Towne

Actor · Director · Writer · Born 23 November 1934, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA · Died 1 July 2024

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.

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Also known as: P. H. Vasak, Роберт Таун, Robert Bertram Schwartz

Robert Towne appears in 18 titles on Nahoko (18 movies and 0 TV shows), released between 1960 and 2006. Where you are (United States), 16 of these titles are streaming right now, mostly on fuboTV (6), Paramount+ (6), Kanopy (4). The best rated is Chinatown (8.1 on IMDb); the most voted is Mission: Impossible. Across all their titles the average IMDb rating is 6.3. Their most recent title is Ask the Dust (2006). Most of their work dates from the 1990s (5 titles). Mainly Drama, Mystery, Crime. Their most frequent collaborators are Tom Cruise (4 titles together), Jack Nicholson (3), Betsy Jones-Moreland (2). Their movies have earned $1.7B at the box office in total, led by Mission: Impossible II ($546.4M).