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Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director. He started with writing films for Roger Corman including The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). Later, he was a part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
Robert Towne (I) Robert Towne. Writer, director, producer, actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA, and raised in the seaport town of San Pedro. Got his start acting and writing for legendary exploitation director/producer Roger Corman. Came into his own during the 1970s when he was regarded as one of the finest screenwriters in Hollywood.
Robert Towne. Writer: Chinatown. Writer, director, producer, actor. Born in Los Angeles, California, USA, and raised in the seaport town of San Pedro. Got his start acting and writing for legendary exploitation director/producer Roger Corman. Came into his own during the 1970s when he was regarded as one of the finest screenwriters in Hollywood. Began directing with mixed success in 1982. One of the best script doctors in Hollywood, he...
Oct 13, 2017 · Towne was born in 1934 in Los Angeles, the city that he would both immortalise and damn in Chinatown, but he was not originally “Robert Towne”. Rather, he was Robert Bertram Schwarz, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Intriguingly, though, it was not Towne himself who changed his name but his father, first calling the ladies ...
Top 10 Robert Towne Films. 1. The Last Detail (1973) R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama. Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James. Votes: 27,645 | Gross: $3.19M.
Mar 21, 2017 · Iconic screenwriter Robert Towne may be best-known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski 's Chinatown, which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. He also wrote its sequel The Two Jakes, and the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail, and Shampoo, as well as the first two Mission ...
3 days ago · TOWNE: At the time we did Chinatown, Robert Evans was Paramount. He was the studio. He was the studio. And even at those times when the script was weighted down by pages and events, Evans clearly ...
