Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934) is 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.
A Decade Under the Influence
The Firm
Mission: Impossible
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Villa Rides
Heaven Can Wait
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
Chinatown
Bonnie and Clyde
Mission: Impossible II
Ask the Dust
Days of Thunder
Suspect Zero
Tequila Sunrise
Frantic
The Last Detail
The Pick-up Artist
The Parallax View
Deal of the Century
8 Million Ways to Die
