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Robert Towne
Known for: WritingRobert 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.
Filmography 25
Mission: Impossible
+11
Screenplay 
Mission: Impossible II
+11
Screenplay 
Days of Thunder
+11
Screenplay, Story 
The Firm
+14
Screenplay 
Chinatown
+7
Writer 
Shampoo
+5
Writer 
Tequila Sunrise
+6
Director, Screenplay 
The Pick-up Artist
as Stan 
The Two Jakes
+7
Writer 
The Yakuza
+2
Screenplay 
The Last Detail
+5
Screenplay 
The Tomb of Ligeia
+9
Screenplay 
Without Limits
+3
Director, Writer 
8 Million Ways to Die
+2
Writer 
Villa Rides
+3
Screenplay 
Love Affair
+7
Screenplay 
Ask the Dust
+7
Director, Screenplay 
Salinger
+12
as Self - Screenwriter 
Creature from the Haunted Sea
+33
as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator 
+16 
Personal Best
+2
Director, Writer 
Last Woman on Earth
+17
as Martin Joyce 
Drive, He Said
+2
as Richard 
The Zodiac Killer
+11
as Man in Bar #3