Peter Bogdanovich
Born July 30, 1939 (Age: 86)
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Kingston, New York, USA
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Bogdanovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Bogdanovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
2024
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as Self (Archival Footage)
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Age: 85
The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
2019
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as
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Age: 80
It Chapter Two
2019
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as Peter - Director
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Age: 80
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
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as Self
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Age: 76
While We're Young
2015
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as Speaker
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Age: 75
Casting By
2012
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as Self
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Age: 73
No Image
Hollywood Scandals
2011
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as Self
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Age: 71
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011
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as Self
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Age: 71
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011
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as Self
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Age: 71
Godard Made in USA
2010
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as Self
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Age: 71
No Image
An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich
2010
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as Self
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Age: 70
Heavy Rain
2010
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as Himself
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Age: 70
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
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as Self
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Age: 70
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
2009
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as Self
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Age: 70
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
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as Self
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Age: 70
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
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as Self
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Age: 69
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
2009
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as Self
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Age: 69
365 Day Project
2007
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as Self
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Age: 68
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
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as Self
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Age: 67
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
2007
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as Self
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Age: 67
Searching for Orson
2006
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as Narrator
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Age: 67
They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson
2006
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as Himself
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Age: 67
Infamous
2006
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as Bennett Cerf
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Age: 67
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
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as Self
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Age: 66
No Image
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
2006
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as Self - Director, Writer, Actor
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Age: 66
No Image
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
2006
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as Himself
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Age: 66
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
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as Self
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Age: 66
The Definition of Insanity
2005
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as
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Age: 66
No Image
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005
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as Self
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Age: 65
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
3D: A Brief History
2004
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as
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Age: 65
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
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as Self
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Age: 65
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
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as Self
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Age: 64
Scene Stealers
2004
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as Peter Bogdanovich
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Age: 64
No Image
'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
2004
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as
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Age: 64
No Image
Hollywood Legenden
2004
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as Self
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Age: 64
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
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as Self
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Age: 63
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
2002
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as Self
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Age: 63
No Image
New York at the Movies
2002
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as Self
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Age: 62
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002
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as Self
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Age: 62
Highball
2002
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as Frank
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Age: 62
John Ford Goes to War
2002
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as Self - Interviewee
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Age: 62
Festival in Cannes
2001
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as Milo
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Age: 62
On Cukor
2000
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as Self
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Age: 61
The Independent
2000
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as Peter Bogdanovich
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Age: 61
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000
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as Self
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Age: 61
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 61
A Constant Forge
2000
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as Self
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Age: 61
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 60
All About 'The Birds'
2000
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as Self
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Age: 60
The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich
2000
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as Self
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Age: 60
Rated X
2000
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as Film Professor
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Age: 60
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
2000
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as Self
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Age: 60
F.
1999
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as Self
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Age: 59
54
1998
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as Elaine's Patron
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Age: 59
Mr. Jealousy
1998
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as Dr. Howard Poke
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Age: 58
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
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as Self
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Age: 58
No Image
Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg
1998
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as Himself
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Age: 58
Bella Mafia
1997
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as Vito Giancamo
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Age: 58
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
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as Self
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Age: 57
No Image
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
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as Self
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Age: 57
Love in Hollywood
1996
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as Self
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Age: 57
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
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as
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Age: 57
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996
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as Self
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Age: 56
The Death of Playboy Playmate
1995
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as
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Age: 55
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
1994
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as Lucca
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Age: 55
No Image
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994
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as Himself
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Age: 54
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
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as Self
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Age: 54
Working with Orson Welles
1993
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as Himself
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Age: 53
No Image
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992
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as Self
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Age: 52
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
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as Self
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Age: 52
Picture This
1991
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as Self
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Age: 52
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
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as Self
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Age: 51
No Image
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
1990
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as Self
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Age: 50
No Image
John Wayne Standing Tall
1989
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as Self
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Age: 49
No Image
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
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as Self
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Age: 49
Bacall on Bogart
1988
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as Self
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Age: 48
On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988
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as Peter Bogdanovich
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Age: 48
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
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as Self
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Age: 47
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
1987
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as Self
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Age: 47
Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies
1987
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as Self
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Age: 47
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
1985
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as
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Age: 46
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
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as Self
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Age: 43
The Orson Welles Story
1982
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as Self
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Age: 42
They All Laughed
1981
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as Disk Jockey (uncredited)
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Age: 42
F for Fake
1973
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as Self
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Age: 34
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
1972
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as Self
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Age: 32
Notes on the New York Film Festival
1971
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as Self
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Age: 32
The Last Picture Show
1971
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as DJ (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 32
Lions Love
1969
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as Peter (uncredited)
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Age: 30