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 |