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
- Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze as Self (Archival Footage)
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
- 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
- Audrey as Self - Filmmaker
- Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self
- 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 Creatress as Theo Mencken
- Carl Laemmle as Himself
- The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
2018
- The Other Side of the Wind as Brooks Otterlake
- Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as Self
- The Great Buster: A Celebration as Narrator (voice)
- They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self
- 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.
2017
- Get Shorty as Giustino Moreweather
- 78/52 as Self
- We Blew It as Self
- The Fabulous Allan Carr as Self (voice)
- Cult of Terror as Self - Filmmaker
- Hawks on Hawks as Self (voice)
2016
- Between Us as George
- Six L.A. Love Stories as Duane Crawford
- The Tell-Tale Heart as Old Man
- Durant's Never Closes as George
- Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis as Himself
2015
- She's Funny That Way ... (Director)
- While We're Young as Speaker
- Pearly Gates as Marty
- Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self
- This Is Orson Welles as Self
2014
- Phantom Halo ... (Executive Producer)
- One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film as Self
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker
- The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh as Self
- A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River as Self
2013
- Are You Here as Judge Harlan Plath
- Cold Turkey as Poppy
- Don't Let Me Go as Man
- Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten as Self
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
- Hollywood Scandals as Self
- 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self
2010
- Rizzoli & Isles as Arnold Whistler
- Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood as Self
- Abandoned as Dr. Markus Bensley
- Heavy Rain as Himself
- BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self
- Queen of the Lot as Pedja Sapir
- Godard Made in USA as Self
- America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self
- Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved as Self
- An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
- Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today as Self
2009
- The Good Wife as Peter Bogdanovich
- Vittorio D. as Self
- No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos as Self
- Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' as Self
- The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth as Self
- Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood as Self
- A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich as Self
2008
- Humboldt County as Professor Hadley
- Twelve ... (Thanks)
- The Making of 'Rebecca' as Self
- Il falso bugiardo as Self (archive footage)
- Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali as Self
- Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster as Self
- Hollywood Gangster as Self
- The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
- The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
- The Doorman as Peter
- Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' as Self
2007
- Broken English as Irving Mann
- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
- Dedication as Roger Spade
- The Dukes as Lou Fiola
- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream ... (Director)
- 365 Day Project as Self
- The Fifth Patient as John Reilly
- Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' as Self
2006
- Infamous as Bennett Cerf
- Wanderlust as Himself
- Searching for Orson as Narrator
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- Edge of Outside as Self
- Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten as Self (archive footage)
- Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger as Himself
- The Informer: Out of the Fog as Self
- They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson as Himself
- Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption as Self - Director, Writer, Actor
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
- Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals as Self
- The Definition of Insanity
2004
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood ... (Director)
- Scene Stealers as Peter Bogdanovich
- The Mystery of Natalie Wood ... (Director)
- Hustle ... (Director)
- Hollywood Legenden as Self
- Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' as Self
- Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self
- Hitchcock and Dial M as Self
- Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' as Self
- Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic as Self
- Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock as Self
- 3D: A Brief History
- Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths as Self
- Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self
- Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess as Self
- 'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
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
- Getting the Moon as Self
- The Next Picture Show as Self
2002
- 8 Simple Rules as Dr. Lohr
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
- New York at the Movies as Self
- Highball as Frank
- 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
2001
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent as George Merritt
- The Cat's Meow ... (Director)
- Festival in Cannes as Milo
- 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic as Self
- Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies as Himself
- It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures as Narrator (voice)
- The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self
2000
- Rated X as Film Professor
- The Independent as Peter Bogdanovich
- On Cukor as Self
- All About 'The Birds' as Self
- A Constant Forge as Self
- Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' as Self
- The Trouble with 'Marnie' as Self
- Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote as Self
- The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich as Self
- Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self
1999
- The Sopranos as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
- Coming Soon as Bartholomew
- A Saintly Switch ... (Director)
- Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self
- The Last Picture Show: A Look Back as Self
- Claire Makes It Big as Arturo Mulligan
- Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius as Self
- F. as Self
1998
- 54 as Elaine's Patron
- Mr. Jealousy as Dr. Howard Poke
- Lick the Star as Principal
- Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
- Naked City: A Killer Christmas ... (Director)
- Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg as Himself
1997
- Bella Mafia as Vito Giancamo
- Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women ... (Director)
- Who Is Henry Jaglom? 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!
1995
1994
- American Cinema as Self
- Hitchcock: Alfred the Great as Himself
- Picture Windows: Song of Songs as Lucca
1993
- Fallen Angels ... (Director)
- The Thing Called Love ... (Director)
- Working with Orson Welles as Himself
- Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Self
1992
- Noises Off... ... (Director)
- Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave as Self
1991
- Picture This as Self
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self
1990
- Northern Exposure as Himself
- Hollywood Mavericks as Self
- Texasville ... (Director)
- With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self
1989
- The Simpsons as Psychologist (voice)
- Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief ... (Director)
- Arena - John Cassavetes as Self
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
- John Wayne Standing Tall 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