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).
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| # | Name | Character | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salinger (2013) | Self - Screenwriter | - | - |
| 2 | You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story (2008) | Self | - | - |
| 3 | Ask the Dust (2006) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 4 | Suspect Zero (2004) | Professor Dates (uncredited) | 5.2 | |
| 5 | Mission: Impossible II (2000) | Director / Writer | 6.3 | |
| 6 | Without Limits (1998) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 7 | Mission: Impossible (1996) | Director / Writer | 7.3 | |
| 8 | Love Affair (1994) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 9 | The Firm (1993) | Director / Writer | 6.6 | |
| 10 | The Two Jakes (1990) | Director / Writer | 7.3 | |
| 11 | Days of Thunder (1990) | Director / Writer | 7.2 | |
| 12 | Tequila Sunrise (1988) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 13 | The Pick-up Artist (1987) | Stan | - | - |
| 14 | 8 Million Ways to Die (1986) | Director / Writer | 4.5 | |
| 15 | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) | Director / Writer | 7.2 | |
| 16 | Personal Best (1982) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 17 | Shampoo (1975) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 18 | The Yakuza (1974) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 19 | Chinatown (1974) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 20 | The Last Detail (1973) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 21 | The Godfather (1972) | Director / Writer | 8.9 | |
| 22 | The Zodiac Killer (1971) | Man in Bar #3 | - | - |
| 23 | Drive, He Said (1971) | Richard | 3 | |
| 24 | Villa Rides (1968) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 25 | The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) | Director / Writer | 5.7 | |
| 26 | Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) | Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator | - | - |
| 27 | Last Woman on Earth (1960) | Director / Writer | - | - |
