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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Bogdanovich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Self

The 50 Greatest Television Dramas

Self

Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies

Self

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

Self - Filmmaker

Culto al terror

Self

The Wild One

Bennett Cerf

Infamous

John Reilly

The Fifth Patient

Self

Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood

Peter

The Doorman

Peter Bogdanovich

Scene Stealers

Film Professor

Rated X

Self

Hollywood Legenden

Professor Hadley

Humboldt County

Self

Dean Martin: King of Cool

Self

Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals

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Hollywood Gangster

Self

Marilyn Monroe - Tod einer Ikone

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Marilyn Monroe - Ich möchte geliebt werden

Self

Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten

Frank

Highball

Dr. Markus Bensley

Abandoned

Lou Fiola

The Dukes

Self

Liebe in Hollywood

Pedja Sapir

Queen of the Lot

Peter Bogdanovich

Reborn

Sammy Michaels

Targets

Self

Hollywood Skandale

Self

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

Dr. Howard Poke

Mr. Jealousy

Self

John Wayne Standing Tall

Himself

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

Self

The Informer: Out of the Fog

Self

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

Self

On Cukor

Self

Roger Corman, le pape du pop cinéma

Self

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Milo

Festival in Cannes

Self (voice)

Hawks on Hawks

Self

Barry Norman in Celebrity City

Self

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Self

All About 'The Birds'

Self

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?

By Bogdanovich

Man

Don't Let Me Go

Self

New York at the Movies

Self

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

Self

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Poppy

Cold Turkey

Self

Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film

Self (archive footage)

Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten

Self

Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today

Himself

Heavy Rain

Self

Orson Welles en el país de don Quijote

Self

Cary Grant: A Class Apart

'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich

Narrator (voice)

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Self - Interviewee

John Ford Goes to War

Self

Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic

Self

John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons

Self

Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali

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Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'

Self

Edge of Outside

Self

Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off

George

Durant's Never Closes

Judge Harlan Plath

Are You Here

Brooks Otterlake

The Other Side of the Wind

Himself

Wanderlust

Self

Fragments of Paradise

Self

The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth

Self

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Self

Bacall on Bogart

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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Self - Filmmaker

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

Self - Director, Writer, Actor

Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption

Self

Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas

Self

This Is Orson Welles

Self

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Self

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

Marty

Pearly Gates

Self

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

Self

John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man

Self

78/52

Self

Lost, Lost, Lost

Self

Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius

Peter Bogdanovich

On the tracks of a filmmaker

Old Man

The Tell-Tale Heart

George

Between Us

Self

BBStory: An American Film Renaissance

Self

The Last Picture Show: A Look Back

Peter Bogdanovich

The Independent

Himself

Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis

365 Day Project

Self

Arena - John Cassavetes

Charley

Willie and Me

Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

Directed by John Ford

Self - Filmmaker

Corman's World

Principal

Lick the Star

Self

The Story of 'Frenzy'

Self

Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Self

Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock

Self

Vittorio D.

Self

We Blew It

The Definition of Insanity

Shem

Morning Has Broken

Self

Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess

Self

With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film

Self

A Constant Forge

Self

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Self

Hitchcock and Dial M

Vito Giancamo

Bella Mafia

Himself

Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg

Narrator (voice)

The Great Buster: A Celebration

Eddie Schuman

Saint Jack

3D: A Brief History

Self

Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'

The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'

Self

Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster

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

Self

Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'

Self - Executive Producer, Actor

A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making

Self

Il était une fois... « Les enchaînés »

Self

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)

The Wild Angels

Himself

Working with Orson Welles

Self

Vérités et Mensonges

Self

Hollywood Mavericks

Self

The Making of 'Rebecca'

Self

100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story

Self

Notes on the New York Film Festival

Self

A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich

Self

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Self

Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

Self

The Next Picture Show

Self (uncredited)

Opening Night

Peter (uncredited)

Lions Love

Himself

Carl Laemmle

Self

Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths

Self

Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'

Theo Mencken

The Creatress

Self

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Peter

It Chapter Two

Himself

Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger

Vedor Ph.D.

Los Angeles Overnight

Roger Spade

Dedication

Self

America Lost and Found: The BBS Story

Himself

Tesla Nation

Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

Self (archive footage)

Il falso bugiardo

Self

Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'

Self

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Irving Mann

Broken English

Self

Godard Made in USA

Self

Howard Hawks: American Artist

Self

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Narrator

Searching for Orson

Getting the Moon

Bartholomew

Coming Soon

Self - Interviewee

I Am Burt Reynolds

Self - Filmmaker

Audrey

Self

The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich

Speaker

While We're Young

Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)

The Trip

Self

The Trouble with 'Marnie'

Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story

Arturo Mulligan

Claire Makes It Big

Self

Who Is Henry Jaglom?

Elaine's Patron

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Narrator (voice)

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

DJ (voice) (uncredited)

The Last Picture Show

Disk Jockey (uncredited)

They All Laughed

Self

Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides

Duane Crawford

Six L.A. Love Stories

Self

The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh

Self

Casting By

Self

Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

Self (voice)

The Fabulous Allan Carr

Self

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Self

A Decade Under the Influence

Himself

Hitchcock: Alfred the Great

Self

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

Self

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

Himself

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

Self

An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich

Self

A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River

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

The Death of Playboy Playmate

Self

F.

Himself

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

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

189

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-07-30

Place of Birth

Kingston, New York, USA

Also Known As

Peter Bogdonovich