Birthday: November 23, 1934
Robert Towne would prefer his appearance as the stick-like leading actor Edward Wain in the prententious Roger Corman post-apocalyptic effort The Last Woman on Earth (1960) be forgotten -- in addition to the film's screenplay, which was Towne's first. Despite this inauspicious beginning (and his follow-up starring appearance in Creature From the Haunted Sea [1961]), Towne ...more- 1975
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Original Screenplay
- Shampoo
- nom
- 1974
- British Academy of Film and Television
- Best Screenplay
- Chinatown
- win
- 1974
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards
- Best Screenplay
- Chinatown
- win
- 1974
- Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- Best Screenplay
- Chinatown
- win
- 1974
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
- Best Original Screenplay
- Chinatown
- win
- 1987
- The Pick-Up Artist
- Stan
- 1971
- Drive, He Said
- Richard
- 1961
- Creature from the Haunted Sea
- Sparks Moran
- 1960
- The Last Woman on Earth
- Martin
- 2006
- Ask the Dust
- Director
- 2006
- Ask the Dust
- Screenwriter
- 2000
- Mission: Impossible II
- Screenwriter
- 1998
- Without Limits
- Director
- 1998
- Without Limits
- Screenwriter














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