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Peter Bogdanovich
Director 1939 - 2022

Peter Bogdanovich

Kingston, New York, USA

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

21 titles
The Great Buster

The Great Buster

Peter Bogdanovich 2018 1h 42m 7.0

A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary.

She's Funny That Way

She's Funny That Way

Peter Bogdanovich 2014 1h 33m 5.8

On the set of a playwright's new project, a love triangle forms between his wife, her ex-lover, and the call girl-turned-actress cast in the production.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

Peter Bogdanovich 2007 3h 59m

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich and packed with rare concert footage and home movies, this documentary explores the history of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, including Petty's famous collaborations and notorious clashes with the record industry.

The Cat's Meow

The Cat's Meow

Peter Bogdanovich 2001 1h 54m

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

To Sir, with Love II

To Sir, with Love II

Peter Bogdanovich 1996 1h 32m

After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.

The Thing Called Love

The Thing Called Love

Peter Bogdanovich 1993 1h 56m 5.0

Newcomers to the country-music business seek love and stardom.

Noises Off

Noises Off

Peter Bogdanovich 1992 1h 43m 8.0
Texasville

Texasville

Peter Bogdanovich 1990 2h 3m

Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt.

Illegally Yours

Illegally Yours

Peter Bogdanovich 1988 1h 42m

Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl of his dreams.

Mask

Mask

Peter Bogdanovich 1985 2h 8.0

A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

They All Laughed

They All Laughed

Peter Bogdanovich 1981 1h 55m 5.0

New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband.

Saint Jack

Saint Jack

Peter Bogdanovich 1979 1h 55m 5.0

Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon

Peter Bogdanovich 1976 2h 6m 5.0

Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway!

At Long Last Love

At Long Last Love

Peter Bogdanovich 1975 2h 5m

Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together.

Daisy Miller

Daisy Miller

Peter Bogdanovich 1974 1h 31m 7.0

In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Paper Moon

Paper Moon

Peter Bogdanovich 1973 1h 42m 7.7

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc?

Peter Bogdanovich 1972 1h 34m 7.8

A strange woman and a man competing for a research grant get mixed up in a jewel robbery and a chase for top secret papers.

The Last Picture Show

The Last Picture Show

Peter Bogdanovich 1971 1h 59m 8.3

The coming of age of a youth named Sonny in a small Texas town in the 1950s.

Directed by John Ford

Directed by John Ford

Peter Bogdanovich 1971 1h 50m

A documentary about the life and films of director John Ford.

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Peter Bogdanovich 1968 1h 20m 3.5

A groups of astronauts crash-land on Venus and find themselves on the wrong side of a group of Venusian women when they kill a monster that is worshipped by them.

Targets

Targets

Peter Bogdanovich 1968 1h 30m 8.0

An elderly horror-film star who, while making a personal appearance at a drive-in theatre, confronts a psychotic Vietnam veteran who has turned into a mass-murdering sniper.

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