Robert Towne

Biography

Robert Towne was a celebrated American screenwriter and director, best known for his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). He went on to write the sequels, The Two Jakes (1990), and collaborated with Hal Ashby on comedies like The Last Detail (1973) and Shampoo (1975). Towne also directed sports dramas Personal Best (1982) and Without Limits (1998), as well as the crime thriller Tequila Sunrise (1988).