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.
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Acted in
Willie and Me
2024
as Charley
The Wild One
2023
as Self
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
2023
as Self
Fragments of Paradise
2022
as Self
Dean Martin: King of Cool
2021
as Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
as Self
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021
as Self
I Am Burt Reynolds
2020
as Self - Interviewee
Audrey
2020
as Self - Filmmaker
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
2020
as Self
Morning Has Broken
2020
as Shem
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
2020
as Self
It Chapter Two
2019
as Peter
The Creatress
2019
as Theo Mencken
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
as Self
Carl Laemmle
2019
as Himself
Reborn
2018
as Peter Bogdanovich
The Other Side of the Wind
2018
as Brooks Otterlake
Tesla Nation
2018
as Himself
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
as Narrator (voice)
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
2018
as Self - Executive Producer, Actor
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
2018
as Self
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018
as Self
Los Angeles Overnight
2018
as Vedor Ph.D.
We Blew It
2017
as Self
Cult of Terror
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
78/52
2017
as Self
Get Shorty
2017
as Giustino Moreweather
The Fabulous Allan Carr
2017
as Self (voice)
Hawks on Hawks
2017
as Self (voice)
Six L.A. Love Stories
2016
as Duane Crawford
Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis
2016
as Himself
Between Us
2016
as George
The Tell-Tale Heart
2016
as Old Man
Durant's Never Closes
2016
as George
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
as Self
This Is Orson Welles
2015
as Self
Pearly Gates
2015
as Marty
While We're Young
2015
as Speaker
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
as Self - Filmmaker
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
2014
as Self
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
2014
as Self
Cold Turkey
2013
as Poppy
Are You Here
2013
as Judge Harlan Plath
Don't Let Me Go
2013
as Man
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
2013
as Self
Casting By
2012
as Self
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
2012
as Self
Corman's World
2011
as Self - Filmmaker
By Bogdanovich
2011
Hollywood Scandals
2011
as Self
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
2011
as Self
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
2011
as Self
Godard Made in USA
2010
as Self
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010
as Self
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
2010
as Self
Queen of the Lot
2010
as Pedja Sapir
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
as Self
Abandoned
2010
as Dr. Markus Bensley
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
as Arnold Whistler
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today
2010
as Self
Heavy Rain
2010
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
2010
as Self
Marilyn Monroe: Death of an Icon
2010
as Self
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
2009
as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
as Self
The Good Wife
2009
as Peter Bogdanovich
Vittorio D.
2009
as Self
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
2009
as Self
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
2009
as Self
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
2009
as Self
Hollywood Gangster
2008
as Self
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
2008
as Self
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
2008
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
2008
The Making of 'Rebecca'
2008
as Self
The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
2008
Humboldt County
2008
as Professor Hadley
The Doorman
2008
as Peter
Il falso bugiardo
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'
2008
365 Day Project
2007
Broken English
2007
as Irving Mann
The Fifth Patient
2007
as John Reilly
Dedication
2007
as Roger Spade
The Dukes
2007
as Lou Fiola
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
2007
as Self
Searching for Orson
2006
as Narrator
Infamous
2006
as Bennett Cerf
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
as Self
Wanderlust
2006
as Himself
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006
as Self
Edge of Outside
2006
as Self
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
2006
as Himself - Director-Writer-Actor
The Informer: Out of the Fog
2006
as Self
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
2006
as Himself
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
as Self
The Definition of Insanity
2005
How I Met Your Mother
2005
as Peter Bogdanovich
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
2005
as Self
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004
as Self
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
2004
as Self
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
2004
as Self
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004
as Self
3D: A Brief History
2004
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
as Self
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
2004
as Self
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
2004
as Self
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
as Self
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Self
Scene Stealers
2004
as Peter Bogdanovich
Hollywood Legenden
2004
as Self
'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
2004
The Next Picture Show
2003
as Self
Getting the Moon
2003
Out of Order
2003
as Zach
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
as Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
as Self
8 Simple Rules... for Dating My Teenage Daughter
2002
as Dr. Lohr
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 Movies
2002
as Self
Highball
2002
as Frank
John Ford Goes to War
2002
as Self - Interviewee
Festival in Cannes
2001
as Milo
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
as George Merritt
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
as Narrator (voice)
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
2001
as Himself
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
2001
as Self
The Story of 'Frenzy'
2001
as Self
On Cukor
2000
as Self
The Independent
2000
as Peter Bogdanovich
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
2000
as Self
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
2000
as Self
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
2000
as Self
All About 'The Birds'
2000
as Self
The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich
2000
as Self
Rated X
2000
as Film Professor
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
2000
as Self
A Constant Forge
2000
as Self
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
1999
as Self
Coming Soon
1999
as Bartholomew
Claire Makes It Big
1999
as Arturo Mulligan
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
1999
as Self
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
1999
as Self
The Sopranos
1999
as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
Lick the Star
1998
as Principal
54
1998
as Elaine's Patron
Mr. Jealousy
1998
as Dr. Howard Poke
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
as Self
Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg
1998
as Himself
Bella Mafia
1997
as Vito Giancamo
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
1997
as Self
Howard Hawks: American Artist
1997
as Self
Love in Hollywood
1996
as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996
as Self
Picture Windows
1995
as Lucca
Cybill
1995
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
1994
as Himself
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
1993
as Self
Working with Orson Welles
1993
as Himself
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992
as Self
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991
as Self
Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas
1991
as Self
Hollywood Mavericks
1990
as Self
Northern Exposure
1990
as Himself
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
1990
as Self
The Simpsons
1989
as Psychologist (voice)
John Wayne Standing Tall
1989
as Self
Arena - John Cassavetes
1989
as Self
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1988
as Self
Bacall on Bogart
1988
as Self
On the tracks of a filmmaker
1988
as Peter Bogdanovich
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
1987
as Self
Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies
1987
as Self
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
1985
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
as Self
They All Laughed
1981
as Disk Jockey (uncredited)
Saint Jack
1979
as Eddie Schuman
Opening Night
1977
as Self (uncredited)
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
Dinah!
1974
as Self
F for Fake
1973
as Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973
as Self
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
1972
as Self
Notes on the New York Film Festival
1971
as Self
The Last Picture Show
1971
as DJ (voice) (uncredited)
Directed by John Ford
1971
as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Great Performances
1971
as Self
Lions Love
1969
as Peter (uncredited)
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
1968
as Narrator (voice)
Targets
1968
as Sammy Michaels
The Trip
1967
as Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
The Wild Angels
1966
as Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Self - Director and Critic