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Robert Towne. Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz; November 23, 1934 – July 1, 2024) was an American screenwriter and director. He started writing films for Roger Corman, including The Tomb of Ligeia in 1964, and was later part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. Towne wrote and won the Academy Award -winning original screenplay ...
6 days ago · Robert Towne, the screenwriter as superstar whose Oscar-winning work on the 1974 classic Chinatown is widely recognized as the gold standard for movie scripts, has died. He was 89. He was 89.
5 days ago · Writer-director Robert Towne, an Oscar winner for his original script for “ Chinatown ” and an acknowledged master of the art of screenwriting, has died. He was 89. Towne died Monday at his...
6 days ago · He both wrote and acted in “The Last Woman on Earth” (1960), a typically bare-bones Corman production. More prestigious work, much of it uncredited rewrites of others’ scripts, soon...
5 days ago · July 2, 2024 3:46 PM PT. Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist ...
5 days ago · FILE - Screenwriter Robert Towne poses at The Regency Hotel, March 7, 2006, in New York. Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, died Monday, July 1, 2024, surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles ...
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5 days ago · Jim Cooper / AP file. Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films, whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art ...
