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Robert Towne
Robert Towne
(born
Robert Bertram Schwartz
; November 23, 1934) is an American
screenwriter
,
producer
,
director
and
actor
. He was part of the
New Hollywood
wave of filmmaking. His most notable work was his
Academy Award
-winning original screenplay for
Roman Polanski
's
Chinatown
(1974), which is widely considered one of the greatest movie screenplays ever written. He also wrote its sequel
The Two Jakes
in 1990, and wrote the
Hal Ashby
comedy-dramas
The Last Detail
(1973), and
Shampoo
(1975), as well as the first two
Mission Impossible
films (, ).
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