Robert Towne

Writer 19 / Actor 6 / Director 4 · 1964 – 2019 · 🎬 29 · 🇺🇸 United States

Robert Towne was an American screenwriter and director. He started writing films for Roger Corman, including The Tomb of Ligeia in 1964, and was later part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.

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Highlights

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019

Salinger

2013

Ask the Dust

2006

Frequent Collaborators

Jack Nicholson

7 shared

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Kenny Moore

6 shared

William Mapother

5 shared

Tom Cruise

5 shared

Donald Sutherland

4 shared

Warren Beatty

4 shared

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🎬 Movies

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

actor

2019

Salinger

actor

2013

Ask the Dust

director

2006

Ask the Dust

writer

2006

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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

actor

2002

Mission: Impossible II

writer

2000

Without Limits

director

1998

Without Limits

writer

1998

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

actor

1997

Mission: Impossible

writer

1996

Love Affair

writer

1994

The Firm

writer

1993

The Two Jakes

writer

1990

Days of Thunder

writer

1990

Tequila Sunrise

writer

1988

Tequila Sunrise

director

1988

The Pick-up Artist

actor

1987

8 Million Ways to Die

writer

1986

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

writer

1984

Personal Best

writer

1982

Personal Best

director

1982

Shampoo

writer

1975

The Yakuza

writer

1974

Chinatown

writer

1974

The Last Detail

writer

1973

The Godfather

writer

1972

Drive, He Said

actor

1971

Villa Rides

writer

1968

The Tomb of Ligeia

writer

1964

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