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

• 2024Willie and Me — Charley
• 2022Argentina 1985 — Thanks
• 2020Morning Has Broken — Shem
• 2019It Chapter Two — Peter - Director
• 2019The Creatress — Theo Mencken
• 2018A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making — Self - Executive Producer, Actor
• 2018Los Angeles Overnight — Vedor Ph.D.
• 2018Reborn — Peter Bogdanovich
• 2018The Great Buster: A Celebration — Narrator (voice), Producer, Director, Screenplay
• 2018The Other Side of the Wind — Brooks Otterlake, Editor
• 2018They'll Love Me When I'm Dead — Self, Thanks
• Get Shorty — Giustino Moreweather
• 2016Between Us — George
• 2016Durant's Never Closes — George
• 2016Six L.A. Love Stories — Duane Crawford
• 2016The Tell-Tale Heart — Old Man
• 2015Pearly Gates — Marty
• 2015She's Funny That Way — Self in TV clip (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 2015While We're Young — Speaker
• 2014Phantom Halo — Executive Producer
• 2013Are You Here — Judge Harlan Plath
• 2013Cold Turkey — Poppy
• 2013Don't Let Me Go — Man
• 2010Abandoned — Dr. Markus Bensley
• 2010Queen of the Lot — Pedja Sapir
• Rizzoli & Isles — Arnold Whistler
• The Good Wife — Peter Bogdanovich
• 2008Humboldt County — Professor Hadley
• 2008The Doorman — Peter
• 2008The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
• 2008The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
• 2008Twelve — Thanks
• 2007Broken English — Irving Mann
• 2007Dedication — Roger Spade
• 2007The Dukes — Lou Fiola
• 2007The Fifth Patient — John Reilly
• 2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream — Director
• 2006Infamous — Bennett Cerf
• 2006Searching for Orson — Narrator
• 2006Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption — Self - Director, Writer, Actor
• How I Met Your Mother — Peter Bogdanovich
• 2005The Big Red One: The Reconstruction — Supervising Technical Director
• 2005The Definition of Insanity
• 20043D: A Brief History
• 2004Hustle — Director
• 2004Scene Stealers — Peter Bogdanovich
• 2004The Mystery of Natalie Wood — Director
• The Mystery of Natalie Wood — Director
• 2003Kill Bill: Vol. 1 — Thanks
• Out of Order — Zach
• 8 Simple Rules — Dr. Lohr
• 2002Highball — Frank
• 2002The Cat's Meow — Director
• 2001Festival in Cannes — Milo
• 2001It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures — Narrator (voice)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — George Merritt
• 2000Rated X — Film Professor
• 2000The Independent — Peter Bogdanovich
• 1999A Saintly Switch — Director
• 1999Claire Makes It Big — Arturo Mulligan
• 1999Coming Soon — Bartholomew
• The Sopranos — Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, Director
• 199854 — Elaine's Patron
• 1998Lick the Star — Principal
• 1998Mr. Jealousy — Dr. Howard Poke
• 1998Naked City: A Killer Christmas — Director
• 1997Bella Mafia — Vito Giancamo
• 1997Blessed Assurance — Director
• 1997Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women — Director
• 1996Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
• E! True Hollywood Story
• 1996To Sir, with Love II — Director
• Cybill
• 1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
• Picture Windows — Lucca, Director
• 1995The Death of Playboy Playmate
• 1994Picture Windows: Song of Songs — Lucca, Director
• Fallen Angels — Director
• 1993The Thing Called Love — Director
• 1992Noises Off... — Director, Executive Producer
• 1990Texasville — Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1989Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief — Director
• The Simpsons — Psychologist (voice)
• 1988Illegally Yours — Director, Producer
• 1988On the tracks of a filmmaker — Peter Bogdanovich
• 1985Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
• 1985Mask — Director
• 1984The City Girl — Executive Producer
• 1981They All Laughed — Disk Jockey (uncredited), Writer, Director
• 1979Saint Jack — Eddie Schuman, Director, Screenplay
• 1976Nickelodeon — Director, Writer
• 1975At Long Last Love — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1974Daisy Miller — Director, Producer
• 1973Paper Moon — Director, Producer
• 1972What's Up, Doc? — Director, Producer, Story
• 1971Directed by John Ford — Self - Interviewer (uncredited), Director, Writer
• 1971The Last Picture Show — DJ (voice) (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Editor
• 1969Lions Love — Peter (uncredited)
• 1968Targets — Sammy Michaels, Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer, Story
• 1968Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women — Narrator (voice), Director
• 1967The Trip — Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
• 1966The Wild Angels — Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited), Additional Writing, Second Assistant Director

Appearances as themselves (148)

• 2024Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze — Self (archive footage)
• 2023John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons — Self
• 2023The Wild One — Self
• 2022Fragments of Paradise — Self
• 2022The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons — Self
• 2021Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster — Self
• 2021Dean Martin: King of Cool — Self
• 2021Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema — Self
• 2020Audrey — Self - Filmmaker
• 2020I Am Burt Reynolds — Self - Interviewee
• 2020Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies — Self
• Talking Sopranos — Self
• 2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness — Self
• Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time — Self
• 2019Carl Laemmle — Himself
• 2019The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20 — Self (archive footage)
• 2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — Self
• 2018Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story — Self
• 2018Tesla Nation — Self
• 201778/52 — Self
• 2017Cult of Terror — Self - Filmmaker
• 2017Hawks on Hawks — Self (voice)
• 2017The Fabulous Allan Carr — Self (voice)
• 2017We Blew It — Self
• 2016Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis — Self
• 2015Hitchcock/Truffaut — Self
• 2015This Is Orson Welles — Self
• 2014A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River — Self
• 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker
• 2014One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film — Self
• 2014The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh — Self
• 2013Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten — Self
• 2012Casting By — Self
• 2012John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man — Self
• 2011100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story — Self
• 2011By Bogdanovich — Self
• 2011Corman's World — Self - Filmmaker
• 2011Hollywood Scandals — Self
• 2011Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides — Self
• 2010America Lost and Found: The BBS Story — Self
• 2010An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich — Self
• 2010BBStory: An American Film Renaissance — Self
• 2010Godard Made in USA — Self
• 2010Heavy Rain — Himself
• 2010Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved — Self
• Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood — Self
• 2010Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today — Self
• 2009A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich — Self
• 2009Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood — Self
• 2009No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos — Self
• 2009Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious' — Self
• 2009The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth — Self
• 2009Vittorio D. — Self
• 2008Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster — Self
• 2008Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali — Self
• 2008Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound' — Self
• 2008Hollywood Gangster — Self
• 2008Il falso bugiardo — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Making of 'Rebecca' — Self
• 2007365 Day Project — Self
• 2007Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo' — Self
• 2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas — Self
• 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters — Self
• 2006Edge of Outside — Self
• 2006Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger — Self
• 2006Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten — Self (archive footage)
• 2006The Informer: Out of the Fog — Self
• 2006The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird — Self
• 2006Wanderlust — Himself
• 2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That — Self
• 2005Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals — Self
• 2004'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich — Self
• 2004Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock — Self
• 2004Cary Grant: A Class Apart — Self
• 2004Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen — Self
• 2004Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' — Self
• 2004Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' — Self
• 2004Hitchcock and Dial M — Self
• 2004Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess — Self
• 2004Hollywood Legenden — Self
• 2004Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths — Self
• 2004Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic — Self
• 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
• 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
• 2003Getting the Moon — Self
• 2003The Next Picture Show — Self
• 2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories — Self
• 2002It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow') — Self
• 2002John Ford Goes to War — Self - Interviewee
• 2002New York at the Movies — Self
• 2001'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic — Self
• 2001Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies — Himself
• 2001The Story of 'Frenzy' — Self
• 2000A Constant Forge — Self
• 2000All About 'The Birds' — Self
• 2000Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley' — Self
• 2000Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film — Self
• 2000On Cukor — Self
• 2000Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote — Self
• 2000The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich — Self
• 2000The Trouble with 'Marnie' — Self
• 1999F. — Self
• 1999Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood — Self
• 1999Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius — Self
• 1999The Last Picture Show: A Look Back — Self
• 1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs — Self
• 1998Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg — Himself
• 1997Birth of a Nation — Self
• 1997Howard Hawks: American Artist — Self
• 1997Who Is Henry Jaglom? — Self
• 1996Love in Hollywood — Self
• 1996The Battle Over Citizen Kane — Self
• American Cinema — Self
• 1994Hitchcock: Alfred the Great — Self
• 1993Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II — Self
• 1993Working with Orson Welles — Himself
• 1992Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave — Self
• 1991Picture This — Self
• 1991Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker — Self
• 1991The Complete 'Citizen Kane' — Self
• 1990Hollywood Mavericks — Self
• Northern Exposure — Himself
• 1990With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film — Self
• 1989Arena - John Cassavetes — Self
• 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self (voice)
• 1989John Wayne Standing Tall — Self
• 1988Bacall on Bogart — Self
• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self
• 1987Out of the Blue and Into the Black — Self
• 1987Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies — Self
• 1982Barry Norman in Celebrity City — Self
• 1982The Orson Welles Story — Self
• 1977Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast — Self
• 1977Opening Night — Self (uncredited)
• 1976Lost, Lost, Lost — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• 1973F for Fake — Self
• The American Film Institute Salute to ... — Self
• 1972Screwball Comedies... Remember Them? — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• 1971Notes on the New York Film Festival — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self, Self - Guest Host
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Horrifying Hollywood Murders — Self
• Invisible Women — Self