Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, is dead at age 89. Towne’s publicist, Carri McClure, revealed he died Monday surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles. She declined ...

There are the classics - and then there's "Chinatown." First released on June 20, 1974, the seminal noir feature was a ...

Today, the film industry bids farewell to one of its most revered screenwriters, Robert Towne, who passed away on Monday at ...

Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of “Shampoo,” “The Last Detail” and other acclaimed films whose work on “Chinatown” became a model of the art form and helped define ...

The famed movie script writer Robert Towne, known for writing the screenplay of the Roman Polanski-directed "Chinatown", for ...

Robert Towne, who wrote films including Chinatown and Mission: Impossible, has been remembered as one of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters following his death at the age of 89. Towne won an Oscar ...

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Robert Towne, the Oscar-winning screenwriter known for his work on the films “Chinatown” and “The Last Detail,” has died. He was 89. Towne “passed away peacefully at home” on Monday ...

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Towne, who blazed a trail for the New Hollywood auteurs of the 1970s, died in his ...