I had the same hard time [on later work] that I had on Chinatown.” In its final form, the film diverges from Towne’s script, which originally killed off John Huston’s character at the end.

Towne won an Academy Award for his screenplay for "Chinatown," a story of murder, corruption, family scandals and a scheme to control the drought-stricken water supply of Los Angeles. Jack ...

Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. His publicist Carri McClure announced ...

Robert Towne, who won an Oscar for his Chinatown original screenplay and was nominated for his Shampoo, The Last Detail and Greystoke scripts, died Monday at his home. He was 89. PR firm McClure ...

In its awards run, “Chinatown” won four of the major prizes at the Golden Globe Awards: Best Drama Picture, Best Director for Polanski, Best Actor for Nicholson and Best Screenplay for Towne.

An Oscar-winner for Robert Towne’s original screenplay (out of 11 total Academy Award nominations), “Chinatown” remains an indelible entry in the film noir genre, updating it with a complex ...

By Duane Byrge, Mike Barnes Robert Towne, the screenwriter as superstar whose Oscar-winning work on the 1974 classic Chinatown is ... construct ornate but compact screenplays and write pungent ...

He was 89. (Bob Carey / Los Angeles Times) Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles.

whose script for Chinatown became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native Los Angeles, has died. He was 89. Towne died Monday surrounded by family at his home in ...

Writer-director Robert Towne, an Oscar winner for his original script for “Chinatown” and an acknowledged master of the art of screenwriting, has died. He was 89. Towne died Monday at his home ...