Peter Bogdanovich

Directing · 1.5 popularity

Age

Movies

198

Born: July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022
From: 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.

Works

198 films

It Chapter Two

20196.8

19985.9

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

20217.0

The Last Picture Show

19717.6

Are You Here

20135.1

She's Funny That Way

20155.9

While We're Young

20156.0

Audrey

20207.1

Infamous

20066.5

Mr. Jealousy

19985.9

Scene Stealers

20047.0

Corman's World

20117.0

Targets

19687.1

Directed by John Ford

19717.0

The Other Side of the Wind

20186.7

F for Fake

19737.4

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

2007

Opening Night

19777.6

A Decade Under the Influence

20037.9

They All Laughed

19815.9

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

20206.5

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

20186.9

Saint Jack

19796.7

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

20206.0

The Great Buster: A Celebration

20187.2

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

20187.1

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

19997.7

Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten

20066.0

New York at the Movies

20029.0

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

20067.8

78/52

20177.2

The Trip

19675.8

Bella Mafia

19976.6

Rated X

20005.5

Coming Soon

19995.7

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

2010

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

19918.0

Abandoned

20105.1

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

19876.5

The Wild Angels

19665.4

Dean Martin: King of Cool

20217.6

Lions Love

19695.9

Hitchcock/Truffaut

20157.2

Hollywood Mavericks

19907.3

Picture This

19919.5

Broken English

20075.9

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

20037.1

Vittorio D.

20096.3

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

20196.7

Pearly Gates

20154.0

Carl Laemmle

20194.0

Between Us

20165.1

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

20146.5

The Fabulous Allan Carr

20174.5

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

20057.0

Invisible Women

202610.0

Humboldt County

20085.7

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

20066.5

Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze

2024

Willie and Me

20246.3

Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides

20116.7

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

20146.7

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

19976.8

I Am Burt Reynolds

20207.1

Reborn

20186.4

Six L.A. Love Stories

20165.0

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

19998.5

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

19983.0

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

20095.6

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

20046.5

We Blew It

20175.2

Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast

1977

Casting By

20126.9

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

1989

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

20216.3

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?

19725.0

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

19947.0

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

19683.2

Barry Norman in Celebrity City

1982

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster

2008

Don't Let Me Go

20132.7

Los Angeles Overnight

20184.2

Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story

198510.0

Dedication

20076.4

Hitchcock and Dial M

20046.4

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

20047.1

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

20186.8

John Ford Goes to War

20025.5

The Independent

20005.3

The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh

20147.3

365 Day Project

200710.0

Godard Made in USA

2010

The Dukes

20075.1

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

20127.8

Horrifying Hollywood Murders

2026

Hollywood Legenden

20044.5

Cold Turkey

20133.0

The Death of Playboy Playmate

1995

1999

Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths

20047.3

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

19923.3

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

20027.7

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

19967.4

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

2010

On the tracks of a filmmaker

1988

Love in Hollywood

199610.0

Arena - John Cassavetes

1989

Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'

2009

Highball

20024.7

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock

20048.5

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

19956.6

Queen of the Lot

20102.6

The Creatress

20196.2

The Tell-Tale Heart

20165.2

Howard Hawks: American Artist

19976.2

Lick the Star

19985.9

A Constant Forge

20006.8

John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons

2023

Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'

2007

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

19997.8

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

2000

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

20007.8

The Fifth Patient

20076.3

Edge of Outside

20065.8

Wanderlust

20065.9

Claire Makes It Big

199910.0

The Story of 'Frenzy'

20016.0

Searching for Orson

20065.5

John Wayne Standing Tall

19896.0

Working with Orson Welles

19935.8

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

1987

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

2002

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

20047.3

Cult of Terror

20176.8

Durant's Never Closes

20168.0

Getting the Moon

2003

Festival in Cannes

20015.3

Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'

20047.3

Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption

2006

The Wild One

20236.0

Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic

20048.5

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

19938.5

Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote

20006.3

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

2009

This Is Orson Welles

20157.2

Il falso bugiardo

2008

Fragments of Paradise

20226.5

Bacall on Bogart

19886.2

On Cukor

20007.0

The Orson Welles Story

19828.5

Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved

2010

Heavy Rain

20105.5

Notes on the New York Film Festival

19715.0

All About 'The Birds'

20007.2

Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals

2005

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

20016.9

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

20017.5

The Definition of Insanity

20059.5

Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger

2006

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

19907.0

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

20017.4

The Doorman

20083.0

The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich

20008.5

They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson

2006

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

20007.3

Picture Windows: Song of Songs

19948.0

The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'

2008

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

2008

Lost, Lost, Lost

19767.1

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

20119.0

The Complete 'Citizen Kane'

1991

The Making of 'Rebecca'

2008

Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten

2013

Hollywood Gangster

2008

The Next Picture Show

2003

The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20

2019

3D: A Brief History

20046.3

A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich

2009

The Informer: Out of the Fog

2006

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess

20047.0

Hollywood Scandals

2011

By Bogdanovich

2011

Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis

20166.3

Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today

2010

Morning Has Broken

2020

Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali

2008

The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth

2009

Tesla Nation

2018

The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons

2022

Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'

2008

The Making of 'Rebecca'

2026

Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg

1998

Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies

1987

'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich

2004

A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River

2014

Hawks on Hawks

2017

An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich

2010