Robert Towne
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American screenwriter, producer, director and actor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert Towne is an American screenwriter and director. He started with writing films for Roger Corman including The Tomb of Ligeia . Later, he was a part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He wrote the Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown , which is widely considered one of the greatest screenplays. Towne also wrote the sequel, The Two Jakes , and the Hal Ashby comedy-dramas The Last Detail and Shampoo . He has collaborated with Tom Cruise on the films Days of Thunder , The Firm and the first two installments of Mission: Impossible franchise .
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