‘Chinatown’ Screenwriter Robert Towne Lifeless at 89

Robert Towne, a super-famous screenwriter who gained an Oscar for his script for “Chinatown,” is useless.

Robert died Monday at his L.A. dwelling, in keeping with an announcement Tuesday from his publicist, Carrie McClure. The reason for loss of life was not revealed.

Along with profitable an Academy Award for 1974’s traditional film “Chinatown,” Robert additionally wrote two different massive films within the 70s … “The Final Element” and “Shampoo.”

Robert can be identified for writing the 1988 film “Tequila Dawn” … which starred Mel Gibson and Michelle Pfeiffer.

A revered determine in Hollywood, Robert was probably the most in-demand screenwriters of all time … usually being introduced in to physician scripts — fixing them up.

A pair well-known examples … Warren Beatty ran to Robert for assistance on 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde” and Robert cooked up the Marlon Brando backyard scene in 1972’s “The Godfather,” even getting a shoutout in Francis Ford Coppola‘s acceptance speech on the Oscars.

The final time we obtained Robert out was method again in 2009, when he talked to one in all our photogs about his “Chinatown” script and dished on working with Roman Polanski and Tom Cruise.

Robert wrote two films starring Tom within the Nineties … “Days of Thunder” and “The Agency” … and he is obtained credit on the primary two ‘Mission: Unattainable’ motion flicks.

RT was 89.