
Peter Bogdanovich
Biography
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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Acting (161 movies)

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007

Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies
1987

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003

Cult of Terror
2017

The Wild One
2023

Infamous
2006

The Fifth Patient
2007

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009

Rated X
2000

Scene Stealers
2004

Humboldt County
2008

Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010

Highball
2002

Abandoned
2010

The Dukes
2007

Love in Hollywood
1996

Queen of the Lot
2010

Reborn
2018

Targets
1968

Mr. Jealousy
1998

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
2001

It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
2002

On Cukor
2000

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009

Festival in Cannes
2001

Hawks on Hawks
2017

Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005

All About 'The Birds'
2000

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
1972

'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998

Cold Turkey
2013

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
2000

Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today
2010

Heavy Rain
2010

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001

John Ford Goes to War
2002

Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
2004

John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
2023

Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
2008

Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
2007

Edge of Outside
2006

Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off
2004

Durant's Never Closes
2016

Are You Here
2013

The Other Side of the Wind
2018

Wanderlust
2006

Fragments of Paradise
2022

The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
2009

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996

Bacall on Bogart
1988

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
1991

This Is Orson Welles
2015

Out of the Blue and Into the Black
1987

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
2014

Pearly Gates
2015

Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2012

78/52
2017

Lost, Lost, Lost
1976

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
1999

On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988

The Tell-Tale Heart
2016

Between Us
2016

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
1999

The Independent
2000

Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis
2016

365 Day Project
2007

Willie and Me
2024

Directed by John Ford
1971

Corman's World
2011

Lick the Star
1998

The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
2004

Vittorio D.
2009

We Blew It
2017

The Definition of Insanity
2005

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004

A Constant Forge
2000

Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015

Hitchcock and Dial M
2004

Bella Mafia
1997

The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018

Saint Jack
1979

3D: A Brief History
2004

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004

The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
2008

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
2008

The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
2008

Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'
2008

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
2018
Directing (28 movies)

Mask
1985

Daisy Miller
1974

At Long Last Love
1975

Paper Moon
1973

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
2007

What's Up, Doc?
1972

They All Laughed
1981

The Last Picture Show
1971

Noises Off...
1992

The Cat's Meow
2001

The Thing Called Love
1993

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
1968

Illegally Yours
1988

Targets
1968

Texasville
1990

Saint Jack
1979

Directed by John Ford
1971

To Sir, with Love II
1996

Nickelodeon
1976

A Saintly Switch
1999

Hustle
2004

She's Funny That Way
2015

Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1998

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997

The Mystery of Natalie Wood
2004

The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018

Blessed Assurance
1997

Picture Windows: Song of Songs
1994
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Targets | 1968 | Screenplay |
| Targets | 1968 | Producer |
| Directed by John Ford | 1971 | Writer |
| The Last Picture Show | 1971 | Screenplay |
| What's Up, Doc? | 1972 | Producer |
| Paper Moon | 1973 | Producer |
| Daisy Miller | 1974 | Producer |
| At Long Last Love | 1975 | Producer |
| At Long Last Love | 1975 | Writer |
| Nickelodeon | 1976 | Writer |
| Saint Jack | 1979 | Screenplay |
| They All Laughed | 1981 | Writer |
| The City Girl | 1984 | Executive Producer |
| Illegally Yours | 1988 | Producer |
| Texasville | 1990 | Screenplay |
| Texasville | 1990 | Producer |
| Noises Off... | 1992 | Executive Producer |
| Phantom Halo | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| She's Funny That Way | 2015 | Writer |
| The Great Buster: A Celebration | 2018 | Producer |
| The Great Buster: A Celebration | 2018 | Screenplay |