- Nació el 1934-11-23 en Los Angeles, California, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Towne (born Robert Bertram Schwartz November 23, 1934) is an American screenwriter and director. His most notable work may be his Academy Award-winning original screenplay for Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Towne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.