Peter Bogdanovich

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.

Known For

The Simpsons

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Sopranos

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The Good Wife

How I Met Your Mother

The Mike Douglas Show

All Movies (196)

• Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze2024 · as Self (Archival Footage)
• Willie and Me2024 · as Charley
• The Wild One2023 · as Self
• John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons2023 · as Self
• Fragments of Paradise2022 · as Self
• The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons2022 · as Self
• Dean Martin: King of Cool2021 · as Self
• Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster2021 · as Self
• Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema2021 · as Self
• I Am Burt Reynolds2020 · as Self - Interviewee
• Audrey2020 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies2020 · as Self
• Morning Has Broken2020 · as Shem
• Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness2020 · as Self
• The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/202019
• It Chapter Two2019 · as Peter - Director
• The Creatress2019 · as Theo Mencken
• What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael2019 · as Self
• Carl Laemmle2019 · as Himself
• Reborn2018 · as Peter Bogdanovich
• The Other Side of the Wind2018 · as Brooks Otterlake
• Tesla Nation2018 · as Himself
• The Great Buster: A Celebration2018 · as Narrator (voice)
• A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making2018 · as Self - Executive Producer, Actor
• They'll Love Me When I'm Dead2018 · as Self
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story2018 · as Self
• Los Angeles Overnight2018 · as Vedor Ph.D.
• We Blew It2017 · as Self
• Cult of Terror2017 · as Self - Filmmaker
• 78/522017 · as Self
• The Fabulous Allan Carr2017 · as Self (voice)
• Hawks on Hawks2017 · as Self (voice)
• Mr.Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid2016 · as Self
• Six L.A. Love Stories2016 · as Duane Crawford
• Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis2016 · as Himself
• Between Us2016 · as George
• The Tell-Tale Heart2016 · as Old Man
• Durant's Never Closes2016 · as George
• Hitchcock/Truffaut2015 · as Self
• This Is Orson Welles2015 · as Self
• Pearly Gates2015 · as Marty
• While We're Young2015 · as Speaker
• Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles2014 · as Self - Filmmaker
• The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh2014 · as Self
• One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film2014 · as Self
• A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River2014 · as Self
• Cold Turkey2013 · as Poppy
• Are You Here2013 · as Judge Harlan Plath
• Don't Let Me Go2013 · as Man
• Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten2013 · as Self
• Casting By2012 · as Self
• John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man2012 · as Self
• Corman's World2011 · as Self - Filmmaker
• By Bogdanovich2011
• Hollywood Scandals2011 · as Self
• 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story2011 · as Self
• Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides2011 · as Self
• Godard Made in USA2010 · as Self
• BBStory: An American Film Renaissance2010 · as Self
• America Lost and Found: The BBS Story2010 · as Self
• Queen of the Lot2010 · as Pedja Sapir
• Abandoned2010 · as Dr. Markus Bensley
• An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich2010 · as Self
• Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today2010 · as Self
• Heavy Rain2010 · as Himself
• Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved2010 · as Self
• A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich2009 · as Self
• Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood2009 · as Self
• Vittorio D.2009 · as Self
• Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'2009 · as Self
• The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth2009 · as Self
• No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos2009 · as Self
• Hollywood Gangster2008 · as Self
• Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali2008 · as Self
• The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'2008
• Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster2008 · as Self
• The Making of 'Rebecca'2008 · as Self
• The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'2008
• Humboldt County2008 · as Professor Hadley
• The Doorman2008 · as Peter
• Il falso bugiardo2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'2008 · as Self
• 365 Day Project2007 · as Self
• The Fifth Patient2007 · as John Reilly
• Dedication2007 · as Roger Spade
• Broken English2007 · as Irving Mann
• The Dukes2007 · as Lou Fiola
• The 50 Greatest Television Dramas2007 · as Self
• Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'2007 · as Self
• Searching for Orson2006 · as Narrator
• They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson2006 · as Himself
• Infamous2006 · as Bennett Cerf
• The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird2006 · as Self
• Wanderlust2006 · as Himself
• Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters2006 · as Self
• Edge of Outside2006 · as Self
• Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption2006 · as Self - Director, Writer, Actor
• The Informer: Out of the Fog2006 · as Self
• Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger2006 · as Himself
• Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That2005 · as Self
• The Definition of Insanity2005
• Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals2005 · as Self
• Hitchcock and Dial M2004 · as Self
• Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic2004 · as Self
• Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock2004 · as Self
• Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess2004 · as Self
• 3D: A Brief History2004
• Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'2004 · as Self
• Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths2004 · as Self
• Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'2004 · as Self
• Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen2004 · as Self
• Cary Grant: A Class Apart2004 · as Self
• Scene Stealers2004 · as Peter Bogdanovich
• Hollywood Legenden2004 · as Self
• 'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich2004
• The Next Picture Show2003 · as Self
• Getting the Moon2003 · as Self
• A Decade Under the Influence2003 · as Self
• Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood2003 · as Self
• It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')2002 · as Self
• New York at the Movies2002 · as Self
• AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories2002 · as Self
• Highball2002 · as Frank
• John Ford Goes to War2002 · as Self - Interviewee
• Festival in Cannes2001 · as Milo
• It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures2001 · as Narrator (voice)
• Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies2001 · as Himself
• 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic2001 · as Self
• The Story of 'Frenzy'2001 · as Self
• On Cukor2000 · as Self
• The Independent2000 · as Peter Bogdanovich
• Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote2000 · as Self
• Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'2000 · as Self
• A Constant Forge2000 · as Self
• The Trouble with 'Marnie'2000 · as Self
• All About 'The Birds'2000 · as Self
• The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich2000 · as Self
• Rated X2000 · as Film Professor
• Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film2000 · as Self
• Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius1999 · as Self
• Coming Soon1999 · as Bartholomew
• Claire Makes It Big1999 · as Arturo Mulligan
• The Last Picture Show: A Look Back1999 · as Self
• Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood1999 · as Self
• F.1999 · as Self
• Lick the Star1998 · as Principal
• 541998 · as Elaine's Patron
• Mr. Jealousy1998 · as Dr. Howard Poke
• Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs1998 · as Self
• Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg1998 · as Himself
• Bella Mafia1997 · as Vito Giancamo
• Who Is Henry Jaglom?1997 · as Self
• Howard Hawks: American Artist1997 · as Self
• Love in Hollywood1996 · as Self
• Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!1996
• The Battle Over Citizen Kane1996 · as Self
• The Death of Playboy Playmate1995
• Picture Windows: Song of Songs1994 · as Lucca
• Hitchcock: Alfred the Great1994 · as Himself
• Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II1993 · as Self
• Working with Orson Welles1993 · as Himself
• Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave1992 · as Self
• Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker1991 · as Self
• Picture This1991 · as Self
• Hollywood Mavericks1990 · as Self
• With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film1990 · as Self
• Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre1989 · as Self (voice)
• John Wayne Standing Tall1989 · as Self
• Arena - John Cassavetes1989 · as Self
• Bacall on Bogart1988 · as Self
• On the tracks of a filmmaker1988 · as Peter Bogdanovich
• James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1987 · as Self
• Out of the Blue and Into the Black1987 · as Self
• Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies1987 · as Self
• Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story1985
• Barry Norman in Celebrity City1982 · as Self
• The Orson Welles Story1982 · as Self
• They All Laughed1981 · as Disk Jockey (uncredited)
• Saint Jack1979 · as Eddie Schuman
• Opening Night1977 · as Self (uncredited)
• Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast1977 · as Self
• Lost, Lost, Lost1976 · as Self
• F for Fake1973 · as Self
• Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?1972 · as Self
• Notes on the New York Film Festival1971 · as Self
• The Last Picture Show1971 · as DJ (voice) (uncredited)
• Directed by John Ford1971 · as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
• Lions Love1969 · as Peter (uncredited)
• Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women1968 · as Narrator (voice)
• Targets1968 · as Sammy Michaels
• The Trip1967 · as Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
• The Wild Angels1966 · as Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)
• Invisible Women— · as Himself
• Horrifying Hollywood Murders— · as Self
• The Making of 'Rebecca'— · as Self

All TV Shows (26)

• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time2020 · as Self
• Talking Sopranos2020 · as Self
• Get Shorty2017 · as Giustino Moreweather
• Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood2010 · as Self
• Rizzoli & Isles2010 · as Arnold Whistler
• The Good Wife2009 · as Peter Bogdanovich
• How I Met Your Mother2005 · as Peter Bogdanovich
• Out of Order2003 · as Zach
• 8 Simple Rules2002 · as Dr. Lohr
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as George Merritt
• The Sopranos1999 · as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
• E! True Hollywood Story1996
• Picture Windows1995 · as Lucca
• Cybill1995
• American Cinema1994 · as Self
• Northern Exposure1990 · as Himself
• The Simpsons1989 · as Psychologist (voice)
• Dinah!1974 · as Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ...1973 · as Self
• Film '721971 · as Self
• Great Performances1971 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self - Guest Host
• The Merv Griffin Show1962 · as Self
• The Mike Douglas Show1961 · as Self