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