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.
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British Academy Film Awards
Best Screenplay
Known For
Paper Moon
(1973)
Director
Targets
(1968)
Director
The Last Picture Show
(1971)
Director
She's Funny That Way
(2014)
Director
Mask
(1985)
Director
What's Up, Doc?
(1972)
Director
Nickelodeon
(1976)
Director
Noises Off...
(1992)
Director
The Thing Called Love
(1993)
Director
The Cat's Meow
(2001)
Director
Illegally Yours
(1988)
Director
To Sir, With Love II
(1996)
Director
Texasville
(1990)
Director
They All Laughed
(1981)
Director
Saint Jack
(1979)
Director
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(2018)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
The Wild Angels
(1966)
Second Assistant Director
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
(1968)
Director
Targets
(1968)
Director
The Last Picture Show
(1971)
Director
Directed by John Ford
(1971)
Director
What's Up, Doc?
(1972)
Director
Paper Moon
(1973)
Director
Daisy Miller
(1974)
Director
At Long Last Love
(1975)
Director
Nickelodeon
(1976)
Director
Saint Jack
(1979)
Director
They All Laughed
(1981)
Director
Mask
(1985)
Director
Illegally Yours
(1988)
Director
Texasville
(1990)
Director
Noises Off...
(1992)
Director
The Thing Called Love
(1993)
Director
To Sir, With Love II
(1996)
Director
Blessed Assurance
(1997)
Director
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
(1997)
Director
Naked City: A Killer Christmas
(1998)
Director
A Saintly Switch
(1999)
Director
The Cat's Meow
(2001)
Director
Hustle
(2004)
Director
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
(2004)
Director
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
(2007)
Director
She's Funny That Way
(2014)
Director
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(2018)
Director
Acting
The Wild Angels
(1966)
Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)
The Trip
(1967)
Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
Targets
(1968)
Sammy Michaels
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
(1968)
Narrator (voice)
Lions Love
(1969)
Peter (uncredited)
Directed by John Ford
(1971)
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Notes on the New York Film Festival
(1971)
Self
The Last Picture Show
(1971)
DJ (voice, uncredited)
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
(1972)
Self
F for Fake
(1973)
Self
Lost, Lost, Lost
(1976)
Self
Opening Night
(1977)
Self (uncredited)
Saint Jack
(1979)
Eddie Schuman
They All Laughed
(1981)
Disk Jockey (uncredited)
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
(1982)
Self
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
(1985)
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
(1987)
Self
Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies
(1987)
Self
Bacall on Bogart
(1988)
Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
(1988)
Self
John Wayne Standing Tall
(1989)
Self
Arena - John Cassavetes
(1989)
Self
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
(1990)
Self
Hollywood Mavericks
(1990)
Self
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
(1991)
Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
(1991)
Self
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
(1992)
Self
Working with Orson Welles
(1993)
Himself
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
(1993)
Self
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996)
Self
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
(1996)
Love in Hollywood
(1996)
Self
Bella Mafia
(1997)
Vito Giancamo
Howard Hawks: American Artist
(1997)
Self
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
(1997)
Self
Mr. Jealousy
(1998)
Dr. Howard Poke
Lick the Star
(1998)
Principal
Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg
(1998)
Himself
54
(1998)
Elaine's Patron
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
(1998)
Self
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
(1999)
Self
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
(1999)
Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
(1999)
Self
Coming Soon
(1999)
Bartholomew
Claire Makes It Big
(1999)
Arturo Mulligan
All About 'The Birds'
(2000)
Self
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
(2000)
Self
The Independent
(2000)
Peter Bogdanovich
A Constant Forge
(2000)
Self
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
(2000)
Self
The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich
(2000)
Self
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
(2000)
Self
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
(2000)
Self
Rated X
(2000)
Film Professor
On Cukor
(2000)
Self
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
(2001)
Himself
Festival in Cannes
(2001)
Milo
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
(2001)
Self
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
(2001)
Narrator (voice)
The Story of 'Frenzy'
(2001)
Self
Highball
(2002)
Frank
John Ford Goes to War
(2002)
Self - Interviewee
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
(2002)
Self
New York at the Movies
(2002)
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
(2003)
Self
The Next Picture Show
(2003)
Self
Getting the Moon
(2003)
A Decade Under the Influence
(2003)
Self
Out of Order
(2003)
Zach
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
(2004)
Self
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
(2004)
Self
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
(2004)
Self
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
(2004)
Self
Hitchcock and Dial M
(2004)
Self
3D: A Brief History
(2004)
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
(2004)
Self
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
(2004)
Self
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
(2004)
Self
'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
(2004)
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
(2004)
Self
Scene Stealers
(2004)
Peter Bogdanovich
Hollywood Legenden
(2004)
Self
The Definition of Insanity
(2005)
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
(2005)
Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
(2005)
Self
Infamous
(2006)
Bennett Cerf
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
(2006)
Self (archive footage)
Wanderlust
(2006)
Himself
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
(2006)
Himself - Director-Writer-Actor
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
(2006)
Self
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
(2006)
Himself
Searching for Orson
(2006)
Narrator
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
(2006)
Self
The Informer: Out of the Fog
(2006)
Self
Edge of Outside
(2006)
Self
The Fifth Patient
(2007)
John Reilly
The Dukes
(2007)
Lou Fiola
Dedication
(2007)
Roger Spade
Broken English
(2007)
Irving Mann
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
(2007)
Self
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
(2007)
Self
Humboldt County
(2008)
Professor Hadley
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
(2008)
The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
(2008)
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
(2008)
Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'
(2008)
The Making of 'Rebecca'
(2008)
Self
Il falso bugiardo
(2008)
Self (archive footage)
The Doorman
(2008)
Peter
Hollywood Gangster
(2008)
Self
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
(2008)
Self
Vittorio D.
(2009)
Self
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
(2009)
Self
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
(2009)
Self
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
(2009)
Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
(2009)
Self
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
(2009)
Self
Abandoned
(2010)
Dr. Markus Bensley
Queen of the Lot
(2010)
Pedja Sapir
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today
(2010)
Self
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
(2010)
Self
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
(2010)
Self
Godard Made in USA
(2010)
Self
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
(2010)
Self
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
(2010)
Self
Heavy Rain
(2010)
By Bogdanovich
(2011)
Corman's World
(2011)
Self - Filmmaker
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
(2011)
Self
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
(2011)
Self
Hollywood Scandals
(2011)
Self
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
(2012)
Self
Casting By
(2012)
Self
Don't Let Me Go
(2013)
Man
Cold Turkey
(2013)
Poppy
Are You Here
(2013)
Judge Harlan Plath
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
(2013)
Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
(2014)
Self - Filmmaker
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
(2014)
Self
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
(2014)
Self
This Is Orson Welles
(2015)
Self
Pearly Gates
(2015)
Marty
Hitchcock/Truffaut
(2015)
Self
While We're Young
(2015)
Speaker
Durant's Never Closes
(2016)
George
Between Us
(2016)
George
The Tell-Tale Heart
(2016)
Old Man
Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis
(2016)
Himself
Six L.A. Love Stories
(2016)
Duane Crawford
78/52
(2017)
Self
We Blew It
(2017)
Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr
(2017)
HImself (voice)
Cult of Terror
(2017)
Self - Filmmaker
Hawks on Hawks
(2017)
Self (voice)
The Other Side of the Wind
(2018)
Brooks Otterlake
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
(2018)
Self
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(2018)
Narrator (voice)
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
(2018)
Self
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
(2018)
Self - Executive Producer, Actor
Los Angeles Overnight
(2018)
Vedor Ph.D.
Tesla Nation
(2018)
Himself
Reborn
(2018)
Peter Bogdanovich
Carl Laemmle
(2019)
Himself
The Creatress
(2019)
Theo Mencken
It Chapter Two
(2019)
Peter
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
(2019)
Self
Morning Has Broken
(2020)
Shem
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
(2020)
Self
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
(2020)
Self
I Am Burt Reynolds
(2020)
Self - Interviewee
Audrey
(2020)
Self - Filmmaker
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
(2021)
Self
Dean Martin: King of Cool
(2021)
Self
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
(2021)
Self
Fragments of Paradise
(2022)
Self
The Wild One
(2023)
Self
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
(2023)
Self
Willie and Me
(2024)
Charley
Crew
The Wild Angels
(1966)
Additional Writing
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
(2003)
Thanks
The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
(2005)
Supervising Technical Director
Twelve
(2008)
Thanks
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
(2018)
Thanks
Argentina, 1985
(2022)
Thanks
Writing
Targets
(1968)
Screenplay and Story
The Last Picture Show
(1971)
Screenplay
Directed by John Ford
(1971)
Writer
What's Up, Doc?
(1972)
Story
At Long Last Love
(1975)
Writer
Nickelodeon
(1976)
Writer
Saint Jack
(1979)
Screenplay
They All Laughed
(1981)
Writer
Texasville
(1990)
Screenplay
She's Funny That Way
(2014)
Screenplay
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(2018)
Screenplay
Production
Targets
(1968)
Producer
What's Up, Doc?
(1972)
Producer
Paper Moon
(1973)
Producer
Daisy Miller
(1974)
Producer
At Long Last Love
(1975)
Producer
The City Girl
(1984)
Executive Producer
Illegally Yours
(1988)
Producer
Texasville
(1990)
Producer
Noises Off...
(1992)
Executive Producer
Phantom Halo
(2014)
Executive Producer
The Great Buster: A Celebration
(2018)
Producer
Editing