Robert Towne, a super-famous screenwriter who received an Oscar for his script for “Chinatown,” is useless.
Robert died Monday at his L.A. house, in line with a press release Tuesday from his publicist, Carrie McClure. The reason for demise was not revealed.
Along with successful an Academy Award for 1974’s basic film “Chinatown,” Robert additionally wrote two different huge motion pictures within the 70s … “The Last Detail” and “Shampoo.”
Robert can be recognized for writing the 1988 film “Tequila Sunrise” … which starred Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer.
A revered determine in Hollywood, Robert was one of the crucial in-demand screenwriters of all time … typically being introduced in to physician scripts — fixing them up.
A pair well-known examples … Warren Beatty ran to Robert for assistance on 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” and Robert cooked up the Marlon Brando backyard scene in 1972’s “The Godfather,” even getting a shoutout in Francis Ford Coppola‘s acceptance speech on the Oscars.
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The final time we received Robert out was means again in 2009, when he talked to one in every of our photogs about his “Chinatown” script and dished on working with Roman Polanski and Tom Cruise.
Robert wrote two motion pictures starring Tom within the Nineties … “Days of Thunder” and “The Firm” … and he is received credit on the primary two ‘Mission: Unattainable’ motion flicks.
RT was 89.
RIP
