The Oscar-winning screenwriter passed away on Monday.
Robert Towne , a screenwriter and director known for his work on countless films such as Chinatown, Days of Thunder, Shampoo, and the first two Mission: Impossible films, has passed away at the age of 89. The news of Towne's passing was confirmed by his publicist, Carri McClure, who revealed that he died on Monday, July 1st, at his Los Angeles home.
Towne was born Robert Bertram Schwartz on November 23, 1934 in Los Angeles, California. He initially pursued acting in the industry, enrolling in a class that ultimately included two of his future collaborators, Roger Corman and Jack Nicholson. He starred in Corman's Creature of the Haunted Sea and Last Woman on Earth, writing the former film as well as The Tomb of Ligeia and A Time For Killing.
Towne's best-known projects arrived in the mid-1970s, including collaborations with Nicholson on both The Last Detail and Chinatown. He also penned the script to Hal Ashby's Shampoo. All three of these films, as well as his script for 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, earned him Academy Award nominations, with Chinatown earning him his first win in 1975.
In the 1990s, Towne developed a friendship with Tom Cruise after writing Days of Thunder, ultimately penning The Firm, Mission: Impossible, and Mission Impossible II for the actor. His later work included writing and directing 2006's Ask the Dust, as well as penning the still-in-development Chinatown prequel series for David Fincher and Netflix.
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