Peter Bogdanovich
Known for: Directing
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
Series
The Simpsons
Psychologist (voice)
1989
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self - Guest Host
1962
Series
The Sopranos
Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
1999
Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
George Merritt
2001
Series
How I Met Your Mother
Peter Bogdanovich
2005
Series
The Good Wife
Peter Bogdanovich
2009
Series
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Series
Rizzoli & Isles
Arnold Whistler
2010
Series
Great Performances
Self
1971
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
Northern Exposure
Himself
1990
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Series
Cybill
1995
Series
8 Simple Rules
Dr. Lohr
2002
Series
Dinah!
Self
1974
Film '72
Self
1971
Film
It Chapter Two
Peter - Director
2019
Series
Get Shorty
Giustino Moreweather
2017
Series
Talking Sopranos
Self
2020
Series
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Series
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Self
2010
Film
54
Elaine's Patron
1998
Film
Opening Night
Self (uncredited)
1977
Film
Corman's World
Self - Filmmaker
2011
Series
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self
2020
Film
The Last Picture Show
DJ (voice) (uncredited)
1971
Film
Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Self
2020
Series
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Film
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
2003
Series
Out of Order
Zach
2003
Series
Picture Windows
Lucca
1995
Series
American Cinema
Self
1994
Film
Are You Here
Judge Harlan Plath
2013
Film
Audrey
Self - Filmmaker
2020
Film
While We're Young
Speaker
2015
Film
The Independent
Peter Bogdanovich
2000
Film
Highball
Frank
2002
Film
Infamous
Bennett Cerf
2006
Film
Coming Soon
Bartholomew
1999
Film
Targets
Sammy Michaels
1968
Film
Reborn
Peter Bogdanovich
2018
Film
78/52
Self
2017
Film
Wanderlust
Himself
2006
Film
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Self
2018
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
1989
Film
Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Self
1997
Film
Abandoned
Dr. Markus Bensley
2010
Film
Casting By
Self
2012
Film
Heavy Rain
Himself
2010
Film
Bella Mafia
Vito Giancamo
1997
Film
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self
1987
Film
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (voice)
2017
Film
Vittorio D.
Self
2009
Film
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
1998
Film
Broken English
Irving Mann
2007
Film
F for Fake
Self
1973
Film
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Self
2018
Film
The Trip
Paul's Cameraman (uncredited)
1967
Film
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Self
2002
Film
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
2003
Film
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
2015
Film
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
Film
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
2020
Film
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker
2014
Film
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Self
1991
Film
Dedication
Roger Spade
2007
Film
The Other Side of the Wind
Brooks Otterlake
2018
Film
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Self
2006
Film
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women
Narrator (voice)
1968
Film
Dean Martin: King of Cool
Self
2021
Film
Saint Jack
Eddie Schuman
1979
Film
The Trouble with 'Marnie'
Self
2000
Film
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
Self
2014
Film
Lions Love
Peter (uncredited)
1969
New York at the Movies
Self
2002
Film
Humboldt County
Professor Hadley
2008
Film
Rated X
Film Professor
2000
Film
Directed by John Ford
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
1971
Film
Between Us
George
2016
Film
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos
Self
2009
Film
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
1990
Film
The Last Picture Show: A Look Back
Self
1999
Film
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Narrator (voice)
2018
Film
The Wild Angels
Townsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)
1966
Film
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Self
2021
Film
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self
2006
Film
Pearly Gates
Marty
2015
Film
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Narrator (voice)
2001
Film
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
2019
Film
Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story
1985
Film
They All Laughed
Disk Jockey (uncredited)
1981
Film
Mr. Jealousy
Dr. Howard Poke
1998
Film
Scene Stealers
Peter Bogdanovich
2004
Film
Willie and Me
Charley
2024
Film
Festival in Cannes
Milo
2001
Film
A Constant Forge
Self
2000
Film
'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock Classic
Self
2001
Film
The Tell-Tale Heart
Old Man
2016
Film
Picture This
Self
1991
Film
Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'
Self
2009
Film
We Blew It
Self
2017
Film
The Fifth Patient
John Reilly
2007
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Self
1999
Film
Cary Grant: A Class Apart
Self
2004
Film
The Wild One
Self
2023
Film
Queen of the Lot
Pedja Sapir
2010
Film
The Creatress
Theo Mencken
2019
Film
Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!
1996
Film
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Self
1982
Don't Let Me Go
Man
2013
Film
Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be Loved
Self
2010
Film
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
2021
Film
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Self
2004
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
Self
1992
Film
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
2005
Film
Edge of Outside
Self
2006
Film
Los Angeles Overnight
Vedor Ph.D.
2018
Jerry Lewis - König der Komödianten
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Bacall on Bogart
Self
1988
Film
365 Day Project
Self
2007
Film
Carl Laemmle
Himself
2019
Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und Götterwelten
Self
2013
Film
Love in Hollywood
Self
1996
Film
Cold Turkey
Poppy
2013
Film
The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20
2019
Film
All About 'The Birds'
Self
2000
Film
The Dukes
Lou Fiola
2007
Film
Cult of Terror
Self - Filmmaker
2017
Film
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
1976
Film
A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making
Self - Executive Producer, Actor
2018
Film
John Ford Goes to War
Self - Interviewee
2002
Film
The Size of Legends, The Soul of Myth
Self
2009
Arena - John Cassavetes
Self
1989
Film
Fragments of Paradise
Self
2022
Film
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Self
2023
Hollywood Legenden
Self
2004
Film
On Cukor
Self
2000
Film
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Self
1993
Film
I Am Burt Reynolds
Self - Interviewee
2020
Film
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
2008
Film
Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'
Self
2000
Film
Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh
Self
2014
Film
The Death of Playboy Playmate
1995
Film
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
Self
2010
Film
Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius
Self
1999
Film
Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides
Self
2011
Film
Six L.A. Love Stories
Duane Crawford
2016
Film
Godard Made in USA
Self
2010
Film
On the tracks of a filmmaker
Peter Bogdanovich
1988
Film
Hitchcock and Dial M
Self
2004
With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
Self
1990
America Lost and Found: The BBS Story
Self
2010
By Bogdanovich
2011
Film
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Self
2009
Film
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
Self
2012
John Wayne Standing Tall
Self
1989
Film
Hawks on Hawks
Self (voice)
2017
Morning Has Broken
Shem
2020
Film
Working with Orson Welles
Himself
1993
Film
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Self
1996
Film
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
Self
2004
Film
Invisible Women
Himself
Film
Searching for Orson
Narrator
2006
Film
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')
Self
2002
Film
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
Self
2004
Film
Claire Makes It Big
Arturo Mulligan
1999
Film
Mr.Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid
Self
2016
Film
3D: A Brief History
2004
Film
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Self
1987
Film
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Self
2001
Film
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
Self
2004
Film
Lick the Star
Principal
1998
The Informer: Out of the Fog
Self
2006
Film
Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
Self
2000
Film
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
Self
2007
Film
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Himself
2001
Film
100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle Story
Self
2011
Film
Picture Windows: Song of Songs
Lucca
1994
Film
Tesla Nation
Himself
2018
Film
Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'
Self
2008
Film
This Is Orson Welles
Self
2015
Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto Preminger
Himself
2006
Film
Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
Self
1972
Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, Scandals
Self
2005
Howard Hawks: American Artist
Self
1997
Film
The Orson Welles Story
Self
1982
Film
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
Self
2004
Hollywood Gangster
Self
2008
Hitchcock: Alfred the Great
Himself
1994
Film
Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
Self
2000
Film
Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador Dali
Self
2008
Film
Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and Moze
Self (Archival Footage)
2024
Film
Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradis
Himself
2016
Film
The Next Picture Show
Self
2003
Film
The Definition of Insanity
2005
Film
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
Self
2004
The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons
Self
2022
Film
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
Self
2004
Film
Durant's Never Closes
George
2016
Film
The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich
Self
2000
Stagecoach: A Story of Redemption
Self - Director, Writer, Actor
2006
Film
The Making of 'Rebecca'
Self
2008
Film
Getting the Moon
Self
2003
Horrifying Hollywood Murders
Self
Film
F.
Self
1999
Film
Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate Spymaster
Self
2008
Hollywood Scandals
Self
2011
Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite Weltkrieg
Himself
1998
Film
The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'
2008
Film
Tomorrow, Yesterday, and Today
Self
2010
Film
Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the Movies
Self
1987
The Doorman
Peter
2008
'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich
2004
An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter Bogdanovich
Self
2010
Film
A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Self
2009
Film
Notes on the New York Film Festival
Self
1971
Film
They All Laughed 25 Years Later: Director to Director - A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich and Wes Anderson
Himself
2006
A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red River
Self
2014