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.
| 2024 | Willie and Me as Charley |
| 2023 | The Wild One as Self |
| 2023 | John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons as Self |
| 2022 | Fragments of Paradise as Self |
| 2021 | Dean Martin: King of Cool as Self |
| 2021 | Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self |
| 2021 | Roger Corman, le pape du pop cinéma as Self |
| 2020 | I Am Burt Reynolds as Self - Interviewee |
| 2020 | Audrey as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2020 | Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies as Self |
| 2020 | Morning Has Broken as Shem |
| 2020 | Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness as Self |
| 2019 | O: Bölüm 2 as Peter |
| 2019 | The Creatress as Theo Mencken |
| 2019 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self |
| 2019 | Carl Laemmle as Himself |
| 2018 | Reborn as Peter Bogdanovich |
| 2018 | The Other Side of the Wind as Brooks Otterlake |
| 2018 | Tesla Nation as Himself |
| 2018 | The Great Buster: A Celebration as Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Orson Welles'in Son Filminin 40 Yıllık Yapım Aşaması as Self - Executive Producer, Actor |
| 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead as Self |
| 2018 | Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story as Self |
| 2018 | Los Angeles Overnight as Vedor Ph.D. |
| 2017 | We Blew It as Self |
| 2017 | Culto al terror as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2017 | 78/52 as Self |
| 2017 | The Fabulous Allan Carr as HImself (voice) |
| 2017 | Hawks on Hawks as Self (voice) |
| 2016 | Six L.A. Love Stories as Duane Crawford |
| 2016 | Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis as Himself |
| 2016 | Between Us as George |
| 2016 | The Tell-Tale Heart as Old Man |
| 2016 | Durant's Never Closes as George |
| 2015 | Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self |
| 2015 | This Is Orson Welles as Self |
| 2015 | Pearly Gates as Marty |
| 2015 | Ah Gençlik as Speaker |
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2014 | The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh as Self |
| 2014 | One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film as Self |
| 2013 | Cold Turkey as Poppy |
| 2013 | Burada mısın? as Judge Harlan Plath |
| 2013 | Don't Let Me Go as Man |
| 2013 | Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten as Self |
| 2012 | Casting By as Self |
| 2012 | John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man as Self |
| 2011 | Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker |
| 2011 | By Bogdanovich |
| 2011 | Hollywood Skandale as Self |
| 2011 | 100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story as Self |
| 2011 | Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides as Self |
| 2010 | Godard Made in USA as Self |
| 2010 | America Lost and Found: The BBS Story as Self |
| 2010 | BBStory: An American Film Renaissance as Self |
| 2010 | Queen of the Lot as Pedja Sapir |
| 2010 | Kayıp as Dr. Markus Bensley |
| 2010 | Heavy Rain |
| 2010 | Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today as Self |
| 2010 | Marilyn Monroe - Ich möchte geliebt werden as Self |
| 2010 | Marilyn Monroe - Tod einer Ikone as Self |
| 2009 | A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich as Self |
| 2009 | Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood as Self |
| 2009 | Vittorio D. as Self |
| 2009 | Il était une fois... Les enchaînés as Self |
| 2009 | No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos as Self |
| 2009 | The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth as Self |
| 2008 | Hollywood Gangster as Self |
| 2008 | Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster |
| 2008 | Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali as Self |
| 2008 | The Making of 'Rebecca' as Self |
| 2008 | The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious' |
| 2008 | The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger' |
| 2008 | Humboldt County as Professor Hadley |
| 2008 | The Doorman as Peter |
| 2008 | Il falso bugiardo as Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' |
| 2007 | Aşkın İngilizcesi as Irving Mann |
| 2007 | The Fifth Patient as John Reilly |
| 2007 | Dedication as Roger Spade |
| 2007 | The Dukes as Lou Fiola |
| 2007 | The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self |
| 2007 | Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' as Self |
| 2006 | Searching for Orson as Narrator |
| 2006 | Infamous as Bennett Cerf |
| 2006 | The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self |
| 2006 | Wanderlust as Himself |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self |
| 2006 | Edge of Outside as Self |
| 2006 | Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption as Himself - Director-Writer-Actor |
| 2006 | The Informer: Out of the Fog as Self |
| 2006 | Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten as Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger as Himself |
| 2005 | The Definition of Insanity |
| 2005 | Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self |
| 2005 | Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals as Self |
| 2004 | Hitchcock and Dial M as Self |
| 2004 | 3D: A Brief History |
| 2004 | Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock as Self |
| 2004 | Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' as Self |
| 2004 | Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' as Self |
| 2004 | Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess as Self |
| 2004 | Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths as Self |
| 2004 | Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic as Self |
| 2004 | Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self |
| 2004 | Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self |
| 2004 | Scene Stealers as Peter Bogdanovich |
| 2004 | 'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich |
| 2004 | Hollywood Legenden as Self |
| 2003 | The Next Picture Show as Self |
| 2003 | Getting the Moon |
| 2003 | Out of Order as Zach |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence as Self |
| 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self |
| 2002 | It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') as Self |
| 2002 | New York at the Movies as Self |
| 2002 | Highball as Frank |
| 2002 | John Ford Goes to War as Self - Interviewee |
| 2001 | Festival in Cannes as Milo |
| 2001 | It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures as Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies as Himself |
| 2001 | 'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic as Self |
| 2001 | The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self |
| 2000 | On Cukor as Self |
| 2000 | The Independent as Peter Bogdanovich |
| 2000 | Orson Welles en el país de don Quijote as Self |
| 2000 | Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' as Self |
| 2000 | The Trouble with 'Marnie' as Self |
| 2000 | All About 'The Birds' as Self |
| 2000 | The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich as Self |
| 2000 | Rated X as Film Professor |
| 2000 | Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film as Self |
| 2000 | A Constant Forge as Self |
| 1999 | Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius as Self |
| 1999 | Coming Soon as Bartholomew |
| 1999 | Claire Makes It Big as Arturo Mulligan |
| 1999 | The Last Picture Show: A Look Back as Self |
| 1999 | Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood as Self |
| 1998 | Lick the Star as Principal |
| 1998 | 54 as Elaine's Patron |
| 1998 | Mr. Jealousy as Dr. Howard Poke |
| 1998 | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self |
| 1998 | Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg as Himself |
| 1997 | Bella Mafia as Vito Giancamo |
| 1997 | Who Is Henry Jaglom? as Self |
| 1997 | Howard Hawks: American Artist as Self |
| 1996 | Liebe in Hollywood as Self |
| 1996 | Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow! |
| 1996 | The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self |
| 1993 | Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II as Self |
| 1993 | Working with Orson Welles as Himself |
| 1992 | Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave as Self |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker as Self |
| 1991 | Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas as Self |
| 1990 | Hollywood Mavericks as Self |
| 1990 | With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film as Self |
| 1989 | John Wayne Standing Tall as Self |
| 1989 | Arena - John Cassavetes as Self |
| 1988 | James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self |
| 1988 | Bacall on Bogart as Self |
| 1987 | Out of the Blue and Into the Black as Self |
| 1987 | Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies as Self |
| 1985 | Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story |
| 1982 | Barry Norman in Celebrity City as Self |
| 1981 | They All Laughed as Disk Jockey (uncredited) |
| 1979 | Saint Jack as Eddie Schuman |
| 1977 | Opening Night as Self (uncredited) |
| 1976 | Kayıp, Kayıp, Kayıp as Self |
| 1973 | Hakikatler ve Düzmeceler as Self |
| 1972 | Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? as Self |
| 1971 | Notes on the New York Film Festival as Self |
| 1971 | Son Gösteri as DJ (voice, uncredited) |
| 1971 | Directed by John Ford as Self - Interviewer (uncredited) |
| 1969 | Aslanların Aşkı (...Ve Yalanları) as Peter (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women as Narrator (voice) |
| 1968 | Hedefler as Sammy Michaels |
| 1967 | The Trip as Paul's Cameraman (uncredited) |
| 1966 | The Wild Angels as Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited) |
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