Peter Bogdanovich

Born in New York to parents who fled Nazism in Europe, Peter Bogdanovich grew up in New York and began to take acting lessons very early on. His teacher is Stella Adler, famous for teaching drama to Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Passionate about cinema (he watches up to 400 films a year), the young Bogdanovich begins by working at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the early 1960s. There he presents great directors, such as Orson Welles, John Ford , Allan Dwan or Howard Hughes. Following the model of the Cahiers du Cinéma, he became a renowned film critic, with highly developed knowledge on the subject. Influenced by the New Wave, he decides to become a director and goes to Los Angeles with his wife (and collaborator) Polly Platt, where he makes the decisive meeting of Roger Corman.


In 1966, Peter Bogdanovich took on several functions (assistant director, screenwriter, actor, etc.) on the set of Roger Corman's Wild Angels, which quickly pushed him to direct. After directing a documentary on Howard Hughes, he directed his first feature film, the little-known "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" and continued with The Target, a horror film with Boris Karloff in the lead role. But it was through his next film that he truly acquired the status of a fashionable director, whose work is perfectly in line with the constants defining The New Hollywood. The Final Screening, focusing on the lives of ordinary young people in a small, isolated village in 1950s Texas, is a huge critical and commercial success.


Following this triumph, Bogdanovich continued with two other great successes: Shall we pack up, doctor? (1972) and especially Cotton Candy (1973), a black and white comedy about the relationship between a crook (Ryan O'Neal) and a little girl who could be his daughter (Tatum O'Neal who, at 10, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress) during the 1930s. At this time, the filmmaker was at his peak. But after these three successes, Bogdanovich's career is affected by the successive failures of "Daisy Miller" (1974), "Finally love" (1975) (both with Cybill Shepherd) and Nickelodeon (1976). Three years later, he still fails to win back the hearts of the public. In 1981, he filmed And everyone was laughing with Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara and model Dorothy Stratten, with whom he begins an affair. Hearing the news, the latter's husband kills the young woman, rapes her corpse and commits suicide.


This sordid news item pushes the director to put an end to his career ( "If the reality is worse than what you can see in the cinema, I don't see the point of making films ...", he confides). Bogdanovich then turned to his first vocation, and wrote a book devoted to his murdered love entitled "The Killing of the Unicorn". However, he did not completely give up directing, and achieved modest success with Mask in 1985, where the singer Cher played the main role. In 1990, he directed Texasville, the sequel to his masterpiece The Last Show, but which ended in failure in theaters ... Just like Bruits de coulisses (1992) and The Thing Called Love (1993). Constantly shunned by the public, his last film was released in 2001 (A Perfume of Murder with Kirsten Dunst). From the 1990s, Bogdanovich made a few appearances on the big screen, for example in Mr. Jealousy and Studio 54. However, he chose to focus on television,


Emblematic figure of New Hollywood, Peter Bogdanovich is very representative of this particular era: like Hal Ashby and many others, he failed to reproduce the success of his first innovative films.


In 2015, Peter Bogdanovich made his comeback behind the camera with the comedy-drama Broadway Therapy. With its prestigious cast (Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston), the film follows the journey of a former escort-girl turned actress who forges a relationship with a director on Broadway.


Author: Laurent Schenck

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Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2021

Peter Bogdanovich 's revenue is $ 1.1M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Peter Bogdanovich and could vary in the range between $ 588.2K - $ 1.6M.

Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2020

Peter Bogdanovich 's revenue is $1.7M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Peter Bogdanovich and could vary in the range between $941K - $1.2M.

Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2019

Peter Bogdanovich 's revenue is $1.2M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Peter Bogdanovich and could vary in the range between $990.6K - $1.2M.

Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2018

Peter Bogdanovich 's revenue is $1.9M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Peter Bogdanovich and could vary in the range between $744.2K - $1.1M.

Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2017

Peter Bogdanovich 's revenue is $1M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Peter Bogdanovich and could vary in the range between $995.7K - $1.3M.

Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2016

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Peter Bogdanovich Net Worth 2015

Peter Bogdanovich 's revenue is $1.5M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Peter Bogdanovich and could vary in the range between $850.3K - $1.6M.

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