Peter Bogdanovich
Directing
- Born:
- 1939-07-30
- Died:
- 2022-01-06
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
Willie and Me
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
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
I Am Burt Reynolds
Audrey
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Morning Has Broken
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Talking Sopranos
The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
It Chapter Two
The Creatress
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Carl Laemmle
Reborn
The Other Side of the Wind
Tesla Nation
The Great Buster: A Celebration
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Los Angeles Overnight
We Blew It
Cult of Terror
78/52
Get Shorty
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Hawks on Hawks
Six L.A. Love Stories
Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis
Between Us
The Tell-Tale Heart
Durant's Never Closes
Hitchcock/Truffaut
This Is Orson Welles
Pearly Gates
She's Funny That Way
While We're Young
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River
Cold Turkey
Are You Here
Don't Let Me Go
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Casting By
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Corman's World
By Bogdanovich
Hollywood Scandals
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Godard Made in USA
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Queen of the Lot
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Abandoned
Rizzoli & Isles
An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today
Heavy Rain
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
The Good Wife
Vittorio D.
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Hollywood Gangster
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
The Making of 'Rebecca'
The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
Humboldt County
The Doorman
Il falso bugiardo
Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'
365 Day Project
The Fifth Patient
Dedication
Broken English
The Dukes
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
Searching for Orson
Infamous
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Wanderlust
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Edge of Outside
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
The Informer: Out of the Fog
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
The Definition of Insanity
How I Met Your Mother
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
Hitchcock and Dial M
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
3D: A Brief History
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Scene Stealers
Hollywood Legenden
'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
The Next Picture Show
Getting the Moon
Out of Order
A Decade Under the Influence
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
8 Simple Rules
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
New York at the Movies
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Highball
John Ford Goes to War
Festival in Cannes
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
The Story of 'Frenzy'
On Cukor
The Independent
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
A Constant Forge
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
All About 'The Birds'
The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich
Rated X
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Coming Soon
Claire Makes It Big
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
The Sopranos
F.
Lick the Star
54
Mr. Jealousy
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg
Bella Mafia
Birth of a Nation
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Love in Hollywood
E! True Hollywood Story
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Picture Windows
The Death of Playboy Playmate
Cybill
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
American Cinema
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Working with Orson Welles
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Picture This
Hollywood Mavericks
Northern Exposure
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
The Simpsons
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
John Wayne Standing Tall
Arena - John Cassavetes
Bacall on Bogart
On the tracks of a filmmaker
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
The Orson Welles Story
They All Laughed
Saint Jack
Opening Night
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
Lost, Lost, Lost
Dinah!
F for Fake
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
Notes on the New York Film Festival
Film '72
The Last Picture Show
Directed by John Ford
Great Performances
Lions Love
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Targets
The Dick Cavett Show
The Trip
The Wild Angels
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Merv Griffin Show
The Mike Douglas Show
Invisible Women
Horrifying Hollywood Murders