Robert Towne

ActorWriterDirectorCrewProducer 1960–2019 (59 year career)

6.2 avg rating

Highest Rated

The Godfather

1972 · Story Editor

8.7

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008 · as Self

8.5

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

1998 · as Self

8.2

Known For

Film

The Godfather

Story Editor

Film

Chinatown

Writer

Film

Mission: Impossible

Screenplay

Film

Bonnie and Clyde

Additional Writing

Film

Mission: Impossible II

Screenplay

Film

The Firm

Screenplay

Film

Days of Thunder

Screenplay

Film

Frantic

Additional Writing

Filmography

Acting (21)

Movies (19)

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019

as Self

6.7

Salinger

2013

as Self - Screenwriter

6.3

Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

2008

as Self

4.6

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008

as Self

8.5

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

2005

as Self

6.7

Suspect Zero

2004

as Professor Dates (uncredited)

5.5

A Decade Under the Influence

2003

as Self

7.9

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

as Self (uncredited)

Rescued from the Closet

2001

as Self

6.0

A Sad Flower in the Sand

2001

as Self

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

1998

as Self

6.0

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

1997

as Self - Screenwriter, 'Chinatown'

The Pick-up Artist

1987

as Stan

5.6

Shampoo

1975

as Party Guest (uncredited)

Drive, He Said

as Richard

The Zodiac Killer

as Man in Bar #3

Creature from the Haunted Sea

1961

as Sparks Moran / Agent XK150 / Narrator

3.6

Last Woman on Earth

1960

as Martin Joyce

4.4

Robert Towne

Television (2)

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011

as Self

7.7

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies

1998

as Self

8.2

Crew (44)

Movies (40)

Ask the Dust

Director

Ask the Dust

Screenplay

Mission: Impossible II

Screenplay

Without Limits

Director

Without Limits

Writer

Mission: Impossible

Screenplay

Love Affair

Screenplay

The Firm

Screenplay

Days of Thunder

Screenplay

Days of Thunder

Story

The Two Jakes

Characters

The Two Jakes

Writer

Frantic

Additional Writing

Tequila Sunrise

Director

Tequila Sunrise

Screenplay

The Bedroom Window

Executive Producer

Tough Guys Don't Dance

1987

Additional Writing

4.7

8 Million Ways to Die

1986

Additional Writing

5.4

8 Million Ways to Die

1986

Writer

5.4

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Screenplay

Deal of the Century

Additional Writing

Personal Best

Director

Personal Best

Producer

Personal Best

Writer

Heaven Can Wait

Additional Writing

Shampoo

Writer

Chinatown

Writer

The Parallax View

Additional Writing

The Yakuza

Screenplay

The Last Detail

Screenplay

The Godfather

Story Editor

The New Centurions

Additional Writing

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Additional Writing

Drive, He Said

Additional Writing

Cisco Pike

Additional Writing

Villa Rides

Screenplay

Bonnie and Clyde

Additional Writing

The Tomb of Ligeia

Screenplay

Last Woman on Earth

Screenplay

Battle of Britain

Screenplay

Television (4)

Welcome to the Basement

2012

Screenplay

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Writer

The Outer Limits

Writer

The Lloyd Bridges Show

1962

Writer

5.0