Buster Keaton and Orson Welles were his film icons. Writer-Director-Producer, and Cineaste Peter Bogdanovich went on to become an inspiration and film icon to entire generations of filmmakers. Bogdanovich now directs his films. Fade Out. He died today, fifty-years after his seminal works. The Last Picture ShowHis stardom was his. Bogdanovich had reached 82 years old.
Peter Bogdanovich, a writer, director, actor, and film historian, has passed away at the age of 82.
Known as a maverick filmmaker, he made movies that ran the gamut from bleak, coming-of-age dramas like Oscar-nominated The Last Picture Show, to comedies like What’s Up Dochttps://t.co/kwo7Jminb4
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Bogdanovich, the father of Antonia Bogdanovich, died at home in Los Angeles shortly after midnight. The Hollywood Reporter.
“Our dearest Peter passed away today from complications of Parkinson’s disease,” the family added in a statement. “The Bogdanovich/Stratten family wishes to thank everyone for their love and support in this most difficult time.”
Bogdanovich’s cherished horn-rimmed glasses, ascot and ever-present ascot gave him a professorial air while reminiscing on the Hollywood legends he loved.[…].
Bogdanovich was among the “American New Wave” of Hollywood directors of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. They were pioneering directors who broke new ground with the traditional cinematic arts, including Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg as well as George Lucas and Brian De Palma. Boris Karloff starred in his first movie, “The Lone Shooter”, which he called TargetsHis work earned him critical praise. It was 1971’s The Last Picture Show At 32, he was a star in the film. Bogdanovich’s haunting portrait of a small, dying town earned him eight Oscar nominations, and won two Best Supporting Actor and Actress Oscars for Ben Johnson and Cloris Leachman.
Bogdanovich directed the comedy about screwball. What’s Up DocAnd,?? Paper Moon, which introduced the world to Tatum O’Neal.
Bogdanovich’s personal relationships often overshadowed his work on the screen. Bogdanovich and his wife had a rich history. The Last Picture Show Cybill Shepperd is a star and a model that he discovered on the cover Glam Magazine. His marriage to Polly Platt who was a fashion designer, and often-collaborator, was ruined by this. Bogdanovich was a tabloid star in the 1980s after he began an affair with Dorothy Stratten, his 1980 Playboy Playmate-of-the Year. Paul Snider murdered Stratten and then committed suicide.
Bogdanovich managed to parlay some of that infamy into an acting career as well, most notably appearing as a psychotherapist on HBO’s The Sopranos.
Peter Bogdanovich was a New Yorker who was born in Kingston on 30 July 1939. He was a cinephile since childhood and began to keep a file with his thoughts on each movie that he saw. Stella Adler was his teacher of acting, and by 16 he had a spear to carry in the 1957 New York Shakespeare Festival. Othello. As his predecessors, he was also attracted to directing early. When he was 20, he directed and starred as a director in an Off-Broadway production. The Big Knife. Bogdanovich raised the cash to put on the play. He was 22 when he became the artistic director at the Phoenicia Playhouse, Catskill Mountains. There he performed revivals of his plays. Camino Real, Ten Little Indians Rocket to the Moon. Bogdanovich was 25 when he directed an off Broadway revival. Only Once in a Lifetime.
Bogdanovich wrote for Esquire and other publications, producing feature articles and film criticism. Frank Tashlin, his director encouraged him to go to Hollywood. He and Polly Platt embarked on a cross-country journey with their first spouse.
There, he met Roger Corman, who knew him from his Esquire pieces, and the famed producer put him to work on the Peter Fonda biker flick Wild Angels (1966). The screenplay was rewritten and Corman directed the ending of the film. The film, which cost about $360,000, grossed $15 million and was Corman’s most successful moneymaker to that point.
Bogdanovich, supported by Corman two years later, directed his first film and appeared as Bogdanovich. TargetsBoris Karloff was the star of the film, and Corman owes him two days. Charles Whitman was the inspiration for this picture of a sniper shooting at a crowd at a drive in. Whitman killed over a dozen people at Texas University on August 1966.
Bogdanovich also leaves behind his films, writings and cinematic curation. He is survived by two daughters, as well as three grandchildren.
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