Peter Bogdanovich

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.

Known For: Directing

Born: Kingston, New York, USA, 1939-07-30

Died: 2022-01-06

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1966	The Wild Angels	Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)	55
2	1967	The Trip	Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)	57
3	1968	Targets	Sammy Michaels	70
4	1968	Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women	Narrator (voice)	32
5	1969	Lions Love	Peter (uncredited)	59
6	1971	Directed by John Ford	Self - Interviewer (uncredited)	68
7	1971	The Last Picture Show	DJ (voice) (uncredited)	77
8	1971	Notes on the New York Film Festival	Self	50
9	1972	Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?	Self	50
10	1973	F for Fake	Self	74
11	1976	Lost, Lost, Lost	Self	70
12	1977	Opening Night	Self (uncredited)	76
13	1979	Saint Jack	Eddie Schuman	66
14	1981	They All Laughed	Disk Jockey (uncredited)	59
15	1982	Barry Norman in Celebrity City	Self	0
16	1985	Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story		0
17	1987	Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies	Self	0
18	1987	Out of the Blue and Into the Black	Self	0
19	1988	On the tracks of a filmmaker	Peter Bogdanovich	0
20	1988	Bacall on Bogart	Self	60
21	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self	60
22	1989	Arena - John Cassavetes	Self	0
23	1989	John Wayne Standing Tall	Self	60
24	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Himself	0
25	1990	With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film	Self	0
26	1990	Hollywood Mavericks	Self	60
27	1991	Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas	Self	90
28	1991	Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker	Self	77
29	1992	Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave	Self	20
30	1993	Working with Orson Welles	Himself	55
31	1993	Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II	Self	100
32	1994	Hitchcock: Alfred the Great	Himself	0
33	1996	The Battle Over Citizen Kane	Self	73
34	1996	Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!		0
35	1996	Love in Hollywood	Self	0
36	1997	Howard Hawks: American Artist	Self	58
37	1997	Who Is Henry Jaglom?	Self	66
38	1997	Bella Mafia	Vito Giancamo	68
39	1998	Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs	Self	30
40	1998	Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg	Himself	0
41	1998	Mr. Jealousy	Dr. Howard Poke	58
42	1998	54	Elaine's Patron	58
43	1998	Lick the Star	Principal	59
44	1999	Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood	Self	76
45	1999	The Last Picture Show: A Look Back	Self	73
46	1999	Claire Makes It Big	Arturo Mulligan	0
47	1999	Coming Soon	Bartholomew	58
48	1999	Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius	Self	84
49	2000	A Constant Forge	Self	66
50	2000	Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film	Self	70
51	2000	Rated X	Film Professor	56
52	2000	The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich	Self	70
53	2000	All About 'The Birds'	Self	72
54	2000	The Trouble with 'Marnie'	Self	74
55	2000	Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'	Self	0
56	2000	Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote	Self	55
57	2000	The Independent	Peter Bogdanovich	57
58	2000	On Cukor	Self	0
59	2001	'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic	Self	74
60	2001	The Story of 'Frenzy'	Self	50
61	2001	Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies	Himself	70
62	2001	It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures	Narrator (voice)	68
63	2001	Festival in Cannes	Milo	60
64	2002	John Ford Goes to War	Self - Interviewee	57
65	2002	Highball	Frank	45
66	2002	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories	Self	70
67	2002	New York at the Movies	Self	100
68	2002	It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')	Self	0
69	2003	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Self	71
70	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
71	2003	Getting the Moon		0
72	2003	The Next Picture Show	Self	0
73	2004	Hollywood Legenden	Self	20
74	2004	'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich		0
75	2004	Scene Stealers	Peter Bogdanovich	0
76	2004	Cary Grant: A Class Apart	Self	69
77	2004	Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen	Self	68
78	2004	Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic	Self	70
79	2004	Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock	Self	70
80	2004	Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess	Self	70
81	2004	3D: A Brief History		60
82	2004	Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'	Self	65
83	2004	Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths	Self	60
84	2004	Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'	Self	60
85	2004	Hitchcock and Dial M	Self	65
86	2005	Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals	Self	0
87	2005	The Definition of Insanity		100
88	2005	Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That	Self	70
89	2006	Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger	Himself	0
90	2006	Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten	Self (archive footage)	60
91	2006	The Informer: Out of the Fog	Self	0
92	2006	Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption	Himself - Director-Writer-Actor	0
93	2006	Edge of Outside	Self	58
94	2006	Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters	Self	65
95	2006	Wanderlust	Himself	50
96	2006	The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird	Self	78
97	2006	Infamous	Bennett Cerf	65
98	2006	Searching for Orson	Narrator	55
99	2007	Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'	Self	0
100	2007	The 50 Greatest Television Dramas	Self	0
101	2007	The Dukes	Lou Fiola	46
102	2007	Dedication	Roger Spade	64
103	2007	The Fifth Patient	John Reilly	65
104	2007	Broken English	Irving Mann	60
105	2007	365 Day Project		0
106	2008	Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'		0
107	2008	Il falso bugiardo	Self (archive footage)	0
108	2008	The Doorman	Peter	30
109	2008	Humboldt County	Professor Hadley	55
110	2008	The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'		0
111	2008	Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali	Self	0
112	2008	Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster		0
113	2008	The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'		0
114	2008	The Making of 'Rebecca'	Self	0
115	2008	Hollywood Gangster	Self	0
116	2009	The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth	Self	0
117	2009	No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	Self	63
118	2009	Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'	Self	0
119	2009	Vittorio D.	Self	63
120	2009	Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood	Self	0
121	2009	A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich	Self	0
122	2010	Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved	Self	0
123	2010	Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon	Self	0
124	2010	Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today	Self	0
125	2010	Heavy Rain		20
126	2010	An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich	Self	0
127	2010	Abandoned	Dr. Markus Bensley	50
128	2010	Queen of the Lot	Pedja Sapir	35
129	2010	BBStory: An American Film Renaissance	Self	0
130	2010	America Lost and Found: The BBS Story	Self	0
131	2010	Godard Made in USA	Self	0
132	2011	Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides	Self	67
133	2011	100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story	Self	90
134	2011	Hollywood Scandals	Self	0
135	2011	By Bogdanovich		0
136	2011	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker	71
137	2012	John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man	Self	78
138	2012	Casting By	Self	71
139	2013	Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten	Self	0
140	2013	Don't Let Me Go	Man	75
141	2013	Are You Here	Judge Harlan Plath	52
142	2013	Cold Turkey	Poppy	30
143	2014	A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovitch on Red River	Self	0
144	2014	One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film	Self	67
145	2014	The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh	Self	73
146	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Filmmaker	67
147	2015	While We're Young	Speaker	60
148	2015	Pearly Gates	Marty	30
149	2015	This Is Orson Welles	Self	71
150	2015	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Self	73
151	2016	Durant's Never Closes	George	80
152	2016	The Tell-Tale Heart	Old Man	51
153	2016	Between Us	George	53
154	2016	Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis	Himself	63
155	2016	Six L.A. Love Stories	Duane Crawford	50
156	2017	Hawks on Hawks	Self (voice)	0
157	2017	The Fabulous Allan Carr	Self (voice)	62
158	2017	78/52	Self	72
159	2017	Cult of Terror	Self - Filmmaker	63
160	2017	We Blew It	Self	56
161	2018	Los Angeles Overnight	Vedor Ph.D.	42
162	2018	Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story	Self	69
163	2018	They'll Love Me When I'm Dead	Self	71
164	2018	A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making	Self - Executive Producer, Actor	68
165	2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Narrator (voice)	72
166	2018	Tesla Nation	Himself	0
167	2018	The Other Side of the Wind	Brooks Otterlake	67
168	2018	Reborn	Peter Bogdanovich	64
169	2019	Carl Laemmle	Himself	48
170	2019	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael	Self	66
171	2019	The Creatress	Theo Mencken	62
172	2019	It Chapter Two	Peter	68
173	2020	Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness	Self	68
174	2020	Morning Has Broken	Shem	0
175	2020	Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies	Self	66
176	2020	Audrey	Self - Filmmaker	72
177	2020	I Am Burt Reynolds	Self - Interviewee	69
178	2021	Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema	Self	60
179	2021	Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster	Self	80
180	2021	Dean Martin: King of Cool	Self	75
181	2022	The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons	Self	0
182	2022	Fragments of Paradise	Self	67
183	2023	John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons	Self	0
184	2023	The Wild One	Self	58
185	2024	Willie and Me	Charley	57

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Self - Director and Critic	78
2	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
3	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	74
4	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self - Guest Host	74
5	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
6	1971	Great Performances	Self	52
7	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
8	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
9	1989	The Simpsons	Psychologist (voice)	80
10	1990	Northern Exposure	Himself	78
11	1995	Cybill		58
12	1995	Picture Windows	Lucca	0
13	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
14	1999	The Sopranos	Dr. Elliot Kupferberg	86
15	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	George Merritt	76
16	2002	8 Simple Rules	Dr. Lohr	67
17	2003	Out of Order	Zach	53
18	2005	How I Met Your Mother	Peter Bogdanovich	82
19	2009	The Good Wife	Peter Bogdanovich	76
20	2010	Rizzoli & Isles	Arnold Whistler	79
21	2010	Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	Self	47
22	2017	Get Shorty	Giustino Moreweather	71
23	2020	Talking Sopranos	Self	0