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
- Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze as Self (archive footage)
- Willie and Me as Charley
2023
- John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons as Self
- The Wild One 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
- Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self
- Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema as Self
- Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self
2020
- Talking Sopranos as Self
- Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time as Self
- Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
- Audrey as Self - Filmmaker
- Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self
- I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee
- Morning Has Broken as Shem
2019
- It Chapter Two as Peter - Director
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
- The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20 as Self (archive footage)
- Carl Laemmle as Himself
- The Creatress as Theo Mencken
2018
- The Other Side of the Wind as Brooks Otterlake
- Reborn as Peter Bogdanovich
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as Self
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
- The Great Buster: A Celebration as Narrator (voice)
- A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making as Self - Executive Producer, Actor
- Los Angeles Overnight as Vedor Ph.D.
- Tesla Nation as Self
2017
- Get Shorty as Giustino Moreweather
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (voice)
- 78/52 as Self
- We Blew It as Self
- Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
- Hawks on Hawks as Self (voice)
2016
- Six L.A. Love Stories as Duane Crawford
- The Tell-Tale Heart as Old Man
- Between Us as George
- Durant's Never Closes as George
- Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis as Self
2015
- While We're Young as Speaker
- She's Funny That Way as Self in TV clip (uncredited)
- Pearly Gates as Marty
- Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- This Is Orson Welles as Self
2014
- The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh as Self
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker
- One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film as Self
- Phantom Halo ... (Executive Producer)
- A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River as Self
2013
- Are You Here as Judge Harlan Plath
- Don't Let Me Go as Man
- Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten as Self
- Cold Turkey as Poppy
2012
- Casting By as Self
- John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Self
2011
- Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
- Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides as Self
- By Bogdanovich as Self
- 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
- Hollywood Scandals as Self
2010
- Rizzoli & Isles as Arnold Whistler
- Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood as Self
- Abandoned as Dr. Markus Bensley
- Queen of the Lot as Pedja Sapir
- Godard Made in USA as Self
- BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved as Self
- America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
- Heavy Rain as Himself
- Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today as Self
- An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
2009
- The Good Wife as Peter Bogdanovich
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos as Self
- Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' as Self
- Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood as Self
- A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich as Self
- Vittorio D. as Self
- The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth as Self
2008
- Humboldt County as Professor Hadley
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster as Self
- The Making of 'Rebecca' as Self
- The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
- Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali as Self
- Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' as Self
- Twelve ... (Thanks)
- Il falso bugiardo as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood Gangster as Self
- The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
- The Doorman as Peter
2007
- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
- 365 Day Project as Self
- Broken English as Irving Mann
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream ... (Director)
- Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' as Self
- Dedication as Roger Spade
- The Dukes as Lou Fiola
- The Fifth Patient as John Reilly
2006
- Infamous as Bennett Cerf
- Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten as Self (archive footage)
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- Edge of Outside as Self
- Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger as Self
- Wanderlust as Himself
- Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption as Self - Director, Writer, Actor
- The Informer: Out of the Fog as Self
- Searching for Orson as Narrator
2005
- How I Met Your Mother as Peter Bogdanovich
- The Big Red One: The Reconstruction ... (Supervising Technical Director)
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
- The Definition of Insanity
- Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals as Self
2004
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood ... (Director)
- Scene Stealers as Peter Bogdanovich
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood ... (Director)
- Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self
- Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess as Self
- Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths as Self
- Hitchcock and Dial M as Self
- Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock as Self
- Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic as Self
- Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' as Self
- Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' as Self
- Hollywood Legenden as Self
- Hustle ... (Director)
- 3D: A Brief History
- 'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
2003
- Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ... (Thanks)
- Out of Order as Zach
- 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
- The Next Picture Show as Self
- Getting the Moon as Self
2002
- 8 Simple Rules as Dr. Lohr
- The Cat's Meow ... (Director)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
- 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
- Highball as Frank
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as George Merritt
- It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures as Narrator (voice)
- Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies as Himself
- 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic as Self
- The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self
- Festival in Cannes as Milo
2000
- The Independent as Peter Bogdanovich
- Rated X as Film Professor
- A Constant Forge as Self
- Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' as Self
- Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self
- On Cukor as Self
- All About 'The Birds' as Self
- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote as Self
- The Trouble with 'Marnie' as Self
- The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
1999
- The Sopranos as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
- Coming Soon as Bartholomew
- The Last Picture Show: A Look Back as Self
- Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius as Self
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self
- Claire Makes It Big as Arturo Mulligan
- A Saintly Switch ... (Director)
- F. as Self
1998
- 54 as Elaine's Patron
- Mr. Jealousy as Dr. Howard Poke
- Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
- Naked City: A Killer Christmas ... (Director)
- Lick the Star as Principal
- Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg as Himself
1997
- Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women ... (Director)
- Bella Mafia as Vito Giancamo
- Birth of a Nation as Self
- Blessed Assurance ... (Director)
- Howard Hawks: American Artist as Self
1996
- E! True Hollywood Story
- To Sir, with Love II ... (Director)
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self
- Love in Hollywood as Self
- Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1994
- American Cinema as Self
- Hitchcock: Alfred the Great 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
- Picture This as Self
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
- The Complete 'Citizen Kane' as Self
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)
- Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief ... (Director)
- John Wayne Standing Tall as Self
- Arena - John Cassavetes as Self
1988
- Illegally Yours ... (Director)
- On the tracks of a filmmaker as Peter Bogdanovich
- Bacall on Bogart as Self
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)
- Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast as Self
1976
- Nickelodeon ... (Writer)
- Lost, Lost, Lost as Self
1975
- At Long Last Love ... (Director)
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- Daisy Miller ... (Director)
1973
- The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- Paper Moon ... (Director)
- F for Fake as Self
1972
- What's Up, Doc? ... (Producer)
- Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? as Self
1971
- Great Performances as Self
- Film '72 as Self
- The Last Picture Show as DJ (voice) (uncredited)
- Directed by John Ford as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
- 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
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self