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Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich ComSE (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian. He started his career as a film critic for Film Culture and Esquire before becoming a prominent filmmaker as part of the New Hollywood movement. He received accolades including a BAFTA Award and Grammy Award, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
Bogdanovich worked as a film journalist until he was hired to work on Roger Corman's The Wild Angels (1966). His credited feature film debut came with Targets (1968), before his career breakthrough with the drama The Last Picture Show (1971) which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and the acclaimed films What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973). Other films include Saint Jack (1979), They All Laughed (1981), Mask (1985), Noises Off (1992), The Cat's Meow (2001), and She's Funny That Way (2014).
As an actor, he was known for his roles in HBO series The Sopranos and Orson Welles's last film The Other Side of the Wind (2018), which he also helped finish. He received a Grammy Award for Best Music Film for directing the Tom Petty documentary Runnin' Down a Dream (2007).
Bogdanovich directed documentaries such as Directed by John Ford (1971) and The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018). He also published numerous books, some of which include in-depth interviews with friends Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, and Orson Welles. Bogdanovich's works have been cited as important influences by many major filmmakers.
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As director
The Great Buster: A Celebration
She's Funny That Way
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Hustle
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
The Cat's Meow
A Saintly Switch
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Blessed Assurance
To Sir, with Love II
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
The Thing Called Love
Noises Off...
Texasville
Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief
Illegally Yours
Mask
They All Laughed
Saint Jack
Nickelodeon
At Long Last Love
Daisy Miller
Paper Moon
What's Up, Doc?
The Last Picture Show
Directed by John Ford
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Targets
As actor
Willie and Me
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
The Wild One
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Fragments of Paradise
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Morning Has Broken
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
I Am Burt Reynolds
Audrey
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Carl Laemmle
The Creatress
It Chapter Two
The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
Reborn
The Other Side of the Wind
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The Great Buster: A Celebration
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Los Angeles Overnight
Tesla Nation
Cult of Terror
Hawks on Hawks
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