Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
11/23/1934
Place of Birth
San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
P. H. VasakРоберт Таун
Robert Towne
Biography
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 (...
Known For
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
as Self
Suspect Zero
as Professor Dates (uncredited)
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Shampoo
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Creature from the Haunted Sea
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
The Pick-up Artist
as Stan
Drive, He Said
as Richard
Last Woman on Earth
as Martin Joyce
Rescued from the Closet
as Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
as Self
Salinger
as Self - Screenwriter
A Sad Flower in the Sand
as Self
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
as Self
The Zodiac Killer
as Man in Bar #3
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'