Robert Towne
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Robert Towne
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Robert Towne 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 for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974); starring Jack Nicholson, widely considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written, as well as its sequel, The Two Jakes (1990). For Hal Ashby, he penned the dramedies The Last Detail (1973) an
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American screenwriter, producer, director and actor (1934–2024)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Towne
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2002-08-06T11:07:10Z
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2024-08-28T18:21:00Z
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