Robert Towne, who wrote the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, has died on the age of 89.
Robert Towne, the screenwriter who wrote the Academy Award-winning authentic script for Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, has died on the age of 89. His publicist, Carri Mclure, introduced that Towne died at his house in Los Angeles on Monday.
He initially got down to work as an actor and author and shortly discovered employment with Roger Corman. He scripted Corman’s Final Girl on Earth and likewise co-starred within the movie underneath the pseudonym Edward Wain. He additionally wrote The Tomb of Ligeia for Corman. Towne then earned a status as a high script physician after Warren Beatty requested him to assist out on Bonnie and Clyde. He went on to make uncredited contributions to films similar to The Godfather, The Parallax View, Marathon Man, The Missouri Breaks, Heaven Can Wait, and extra.
Towne first met Chinatown star Jack Nicholson within the late Nineteen Fifties at an appearing class taught by blacklisted actor Jeff Corey. They turned buddies and even lived collectively at one level, and Towne knew Nicholson was destined for fame. “From the second I laid eyes on him, I knew Jack was gonna be a star. … I wouldn’t have been in a position to envision anybody else within the half,” Towne instructed Selection final month. “It wasn’t simply his capability for indignation, an innate sense that the world is probably not honest however that it rattling effectively ought to be. It was additionally his ardour for clothes, a sure eye for the finer issues, a disregard for — even aversion to — the odd.” He wrote Chinatown with Nicholson in thoughts for the position of Jake Gittes.
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