Peter Bogdanovich
Born: 1939-07-30 in Kingston, New York, USA
Died: 2022-01-06
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2024
- Willie and Me as Charley
2023
- The Wild One as Self
- John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons as Self
2022
- Argentina 1985 ... (Thanks)
- Fragments of Paradise as Self
- The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons as Self
2021
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self
- Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
- Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema as Self
2020
- Audrey as Self - Filmmaker
- Talking Sopranos as Self
- Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
- Morning Has Broken as Shem
- I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee
- Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
2019
- It Chapter Two as Peter
- The Creatress as Theo Mencken
- Carl Laemmle as Himself
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
- The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
2018
- The Other Side of the Wind as Brooks Otterlake
- Reborn as Peter Bogdanovich
- A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making as Self - Executive Producer, Actor
- Tesla Nation as Himself
- Los Angeles Overnight as Vedor Ph.D.
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as Self
- The Great Buster: A Celebration as Narrator (voice)
2017
- Get Shorty as Giustino Moreweather
- 78/52 as Self
- We Blew It as Self
- Hawks on Hawks as Self (voice)
- Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (voice)
2016
- Between Us as George
- Six L.A. Love Stories as Duane Crawford
- The Tell-Tale Heart as Old Man
- Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis as Himself
- Durant's Never Closes as George
2015
- Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- She's Funny That Way ... (Director)
- This Is Orson Welles as Self
- Pearly Gates as Marty
- While We're Young as Speaker
2014
- Phantom Halo ... (Executive Producer)
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker
- One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film as Self
- A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River as Self
- The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh as Self
2013
- Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten as Self
- Are You Here as Judge Harlan Plath
- Cold Turkey as Poppy
- Don't Let Me Go as Man
2012
- Casting By as Self
- John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Self
2011
- Hollywood Scandals as Self
- By Bogdanovich
- Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
- 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
- Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides as Self
2010
- Rizzoli & Isles as Arnold Whistler
- Abandoned as Dr. Markus Bensley
- Heavy Rain as Himself
- Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved as Self
- America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
- Queen of the Lot as Pedja Sapir
- BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- Godard Made in USA as Self
- An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
- Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood as Self
- Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today as Self
2009
- The Good Wife as Peter Bogdanovich
- Vittorio D. as Self
- Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' as Self
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos as Self
- Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood as Self
- The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth as Self
- A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich as Self
2008
- Humboldt County as Professor Hadley
- Hollywood Gangster as Self
- The Doorman as Peter
- Twelve ... (Thanks)
- The Making of 'Rebecca' as Self
- The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
- Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' as Self
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster as Self
- Il falso bugiardo as Self (archive footage)
- Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali as Self
- The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
2007
- Broken English as Irving Mann
- Dedication as Roger Spade
- The Dukes as Lou Fiola
- 365 Day Project
- Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' as Self
- The Fifth Patient as John Reilly
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream ... (Director)
- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
2006
- Infamous as Bennett Cerf
- Edge of Outside as Self
- Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten as Self (archive footage)
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
- Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption as Self - Director, Writer, Actor
- The Informer: Out of the Fog as Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson as Himself
- Wanderlust as Himself
- Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger as Himself
- Searching for Orson as Narrator
2005
- How I Met Your Mother as Peter Bogdanovich
- The Big Red One: The Reconstruction ... (Supervising Technical Director)
- Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals as Self
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
- The Definition of Insanity
2004
- Hollywood Legenden as Self
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood ... (Director)
- Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self
- Hitchcock and Dial M as Self
- Scene Stealers as Peter Bogdanovich
- Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic as Self
- Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' as Self
- 'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood ... (Director)
- Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths as Self
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self
- Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock as Self
- Hustle ... (Director)
- 3D: A Brief History
- Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess as Self
- Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' as Self
2003
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ... (Thanks)
- A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
- Getting the Moon
- The Next Picture Show as Self
- Out of Order as Zach
2002
- 8 Simple Rules as Dr. Lohr
- Highball as Frank
- New York at the Movies as Self
- John Ford Goes to War as Self - Interviewee
- It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') as Self
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as George Merritt
- The Cat's Meow ... (Director)
- 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic as Self
- The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self
- It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures as Narrator (voice)
- Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies as Himself
- Festival in Cannes as Milo
2000
- On Cukor as Self
- A Constant Forge as Self
- Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' as Self
- All About 'The Birds' as Self
- Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self
- The Independent as Peter Bogdanovich
- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote as Self
- The Trouble with 'Marnie' as Self
- Rated X as Film Professor
- The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
1999
- The Sopranos as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
- Coming Soon as Bartholomew
- Die letzte Vorstellung: Ein Rückblick as Self
- A Saintly Switch ... (Director)
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self
- F. as Self
- Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius as Self
- Claire Makes It Big as Arturo Mulligan
1998
- Mr. Jealousy as Dr. Howard Poke
- 54 as Elaine's Patron
- Naked City: A Killer Christmas ... (Director)
- Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
- Lick the Star as Principal
- Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg as Himself
1997
- Bella Mafia as Vito Giancamo
- Blessed Assurance ... (Director)
- Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self
- Howard Hawks: American Artist as Self
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women ... (Director)
1996
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self
- To Sir, with Love II ... (Director)
- Love in Hollywood as Self
- E! True Hollywood Story
- Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1995
1994
- Hitchcock: Alfred the Great as Himself
- American Cinema as Self
- Picture Windows: Song of Songs as Lucca
1993
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- The Thing Called Love ... (Director)
- Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Self
- Working with Orson Welles as Himself
1992
- Noises Off... ... (Director)
- Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave as Self
1991
1990
- Northern Exposure as Himself
- Hollywood Mavericks as Self
- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self
- Texasville ... (Director)
1989
- The Simpsons as Psychologist (voice)
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
- John Wayne Standing Tall as Self
- Arena - John Cassavetes as Self
1988
- Illegally Yours ... (Director)
- Bacall on Bogart as Self
- On the tracks of a filmmaker as Peter Bogdanovich
1987
1985
- Mask ... (Director)
- Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
1984
- The City Girl ... (Executive Producer)
1982
- The Orson Welles Story as Self
- Barry Norman in Celebrity City as Self
1981
- They All Laughed as Disk Jockey (uncredited)
1979
- Saint Jack as Eddie Schuman
1977
- Opening Night as Self (uncredited)
1976
- Lost, Lost, Lost as Self
- Nickelodeon ... (Writer)
1975
- At Long Last Love ... (Director)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Daisy Miller ... (Director)
1973
- F for Fake as Self
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Paper Moon ... (Producer)
1972
- What's Up, Doc? ... (Director)
- Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Directed by John Ford as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
- The Last Picture Show as DJ (voice) (uncredited)
- Film '72 as Self
- Notes on the New York Film Festival as Self
1969
- Lions Love as Peter (uncredited)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Targets as Sammy Michaels
- Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women as Narrator (voice)
1967
- The Trip as Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
1966
- The Wild Angels as Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)
1962
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self