Born on this day – Robert Towne:

Robert Towne

Writer

Director

November 23, 1934 – July 1, 2024

Credits:

47th Annual Academy Awards (1975); 50 Films to See Before You Die (2006); 8 Million Ways to Die (1986); A Classy Broad (2016); A Decade Under the Influence (2003); A Sad Flower in the Sand (2001); AFI Life Achievement Award (2008); AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains (2003); American Masters (1998–2008); Armageddon (1998); Ask the Dust (2006); Behind the Mission: The Making of 'M:I-2' (2000); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Bookmark (1988); Breaking Point (1964); Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005); Budd Boetticher: An American Original (2005); Cadillac Desert (1997); CBS Mornings (1990); Chinatown (1974); Chinatown Revisited with Roman Polanski, Robert Evans and Robert Towne (1999); Chinatown: Filming (2007); Chinatown: The Beginning and the End (2007); Chinatown: The Legacy (2007); Cisco Pike (1971); Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961); Crimson Tide (1995); Days of Thunder (1990); Deal of the Century (1983); Drive, He Said (1971); Fort McCoy (2011); Frantic (1988); Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984); Hal (2018); Halloween Monster Bash (1991); Heaven Can Wait (1978); Hollywood Insider (2021); Independent Lens (2006); Last Woman on Earth (1960); Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989); Love Affair (1994); Mad Men (2014–2015); McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971); Mission: Impossible (1996); Mission: Impossible II (2000); Mission: Remarkable - 40 Years of Creating the Impossible (2006); Orca (1977); Personal Best (1982); Playing the Field: Sports and Sex in America (2000); Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002); Rescued from the Closet (2001); Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008); Robert Towne (2009); Salinger (2013); Screenwriters: Word Into Image (1982); Shampoo (1975); Suspect Zero (2004); Tequila Sunrise (1988); The 32nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1975); The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made (2004); The Bedroom Window (1987); The Celluloid Closet (1995); The Century: America's Time (1999); The Escape Artist (1982); The Firm (1993); The Godfather (1972); The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002); The Last Detail (1973); The Lloyd Bridges Show (1963); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964); The Missouri Breaks (1976); The New Centurions (1972); The Outer Limits (1964); The Outsider (2005); The Parallax View (1974); The Pick-up Artist (1987); The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011); The Tomb of Ligeia (1964); The Two Jakes (1990); The Yakuza (1974); The Young Racers (1963); The Zodiac Killer (1971); Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987); Villa Rides (1968); Welcome to the Basement (2013–2017); What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018); Without Limits (1998); Wonderland (2003).