Peter Bogdanovich filmography

Peter Bogdanovich (1939–2022) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor and film historian whose career spanned over fifty years.

His work includes The Last Picture Show (1971), What's Up, Doc? (1972), Paper Moon (1973), Saint Jack (1979), They All Laughed (1981), Mask (1985), Texasville (1990), Noises Off (1992), The Thing Called Love (1993), The Cat's Meow (2001), and She's Funny That Way (2014).

Filmography

Filmmaking credits

Film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes	Ref.
1968	Targets	Yes	Yes	Yes	Story co-written with Polly Platt Also uncredited editor	^[1]
1971	The Last Picture Show	Yes	Yes	No	Co-written with Larry McMurtry	^[1]
1971	Directed by John Ford	Yes	Yes	No	Documentary film
1972	What's Up, Doc?	Yes	Story	Yes		^[2]
1973	Paper Moon	Yes	No	Yes		^[3]
1974	Daisy Miller	Yes	No	Yes
1975	At Long Last Love	Yes	Yes	Yes		^[4]
1976	Nickelodeon	Yes	Yes	No	Co-written with W. D. Richter	^[4]
1979	Saint Jack	Yes	Yes	No	Co-written with Howard Sackler and Paul Theroux
1981	They All Laughed	Yes	Yes	No	Additional dialogue by Blaine Novak	^[4]
1985	Mask	Yes	No	No		^[4]
1988	Illegally Yours	Yes	No	Yes		^[5]
1990	Texasville	Yes	Yes	Yes		^[5]
1992	Noises Off	Yes	No	Executive		^[5]
1993	The Thing Called Love	Yes	No	No
2001	The Cat's Meow	Yes	No	No
2007	Runnin' Down a Dream	Yes	No	No	Documentary film	^[5]
2014	She's Funny That Way	Yes	Yes	No	Original title: Squirrels to the Nuts Co-written with Louise Stratten	^[5]
2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Yes	Yes	Yes	Documentary film	^[5]
TBA	Our Love Is Here to Stay	No	Yes	No	Posthumous release Co-written with Sam Kashner	^[6]

Television

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1995	Picture Windows	Episode: "Song of Songs" (S1 E2)
	Fallen Angels	Episode: "A Dime a Dance" (S2 E3)
	Prowler	Television films	^[5]
1996	To Sir, with Love II
1997	The Price of Heaven		^[5]
1997	Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Women		^[5]
1998	Naked City: A Killer Christmas
1999	A Saintly Switch
2004	The Mystery of Natalie Wood
	The Sopranos	Episode: "Sentimental Education" (S5 E6)
	Hustle	Television film	^[7]

Acting credits

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1968	Targets	Sammy Michaels		^[8]
1968	Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women	Narrator	Voice	^[9]
1971	The Last Picture Show	Disc Jockey	Voice cameo	^[10]
1977	Opening Night	Himself	Cameo	^[11]
1979	Saint Jack	Eddie Schuman
1981	They All Laughed	Disk Jockey	Voice cameo	^[12]
1997	Highball	Frank		^[13]
1997	Mr. Jealousy	Howard Poke		^[14]
1998	54	Elaine's Patron	Cameo	^[15]
1998	Lick the Star	The Principal	Short films	^[16]
1999	Claire Makes It Big	Arturo Mulligan	Short films	^[17]
1999	Coming Soon	Bartholomew		^[18]
2001	Festival in Cannes	Milo		^[19]
2003	Kill Bill: Volume 1	Disc Jockey	Voice cameo	^[20]
2004	Kill Bill: Volume 2	Disc Jockey	Voice cameo	^[20]
2004	The Definition of Insanity	Himself	Cameo	^[21]
2006	Infamous	Bennett Cerf		^[22]
2007	Dedication	Roger Spade	Cameo	^[23]^[24]
	The Dukes	Lou		^[25]
	The Fifth Patient	Edward Birani		^[26]
	Broken English	Iriving Mann		^[27]^[28]
	The Doorman	Peter		^[29]
2008	Humboldt County	Professor Hadley		^[30]
2010	Abandoned	Markus Bensley		^[31]
2010	Queen of the Lot	Pedja Sapir		^[32]
2013	Don't Let Me Go	Man		^[33]
	Cold Turkey	Poppy		^[34]
	Are You Here	Judge Harlan Plath		^[35]
2014	While We're Young	Speaker	Cameo	^[36]
2014	The Tell-Tale Heart	The Old Man		^[37]
2015	Pearly Gates	Marty		^[38]
2016	Durant's Never Closes	George		^[39]
	Between Us	George		^[40]
	Six LA Love Stories	Duane Crawford		^[41]
2018	Los Angeles Overnight	Vedor Ph.D.		^[42]
	The Other Side of the Wind	Brooks Otterlake	Shot between 1970 and 1976	^[43]
	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Narrator	Documentary film	^[44]
	Reborn	Himself	Cameo	^[45]
2019	The Creatress	Theo Mencken		^[46]
2019	It Chapter Two	Peter – Director	Cameo	^[47]
2020	Nightwalkers	Unnamed	Short film	^[48]
2023	Willie and Me	Charley	Posthumous release	^[49]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1987	Moonlighting	Himself	Episode: "The Straight Poop" (S3 E9)	^[50]
1993	Northern Exposure		Episode: "Rosebud" (S5 E7)	^[51]
1995	Cybill		Episode: "See Jeff Jump, Jump, Jeff, Jump!" (S1 E7)	^[52]
1995	Picture Windows	Lucca	Episode: "Song of Songs" (E2)	^[53]^[54]
1997	Bella Mafia	Vito Giancamo	Television films	^[55]
2000	Rated X	Film Professor	Television films	^[56]
	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "Toodle-Fucking-Oo" (S2 E3)	^[47]
			Episode: "Big Girls Don't Cry" (S2 E5)
			Episode: "From Where to Eternity" (S2 E9)
			Episode: "House Arrest" (S2 E11)
2001			Episode: "Employee of the Month" (S3 E4)
2001			Episode: "He Is Risen" (S3 E8)
2002			Episode: "The Weight" (S4 E4)
2002			Episode: "Calling All Cars" (S4 E11)
2003	Out of Order	Zach	Episode: "Pilot: Part One" (E1)	^[14]
			Episode: "Pilot: Part Two" (E2)
			Episode: "The Art of Loss" (E3)
			Episode: "Losing My Religion" (E4)
			Episode: "Follow the Rat" (E5)
			Episode: "Put Me In Order" (E6)
2004	8 Simple Rules	Dr. Lohr	Episode: "Daddy's Girl" (S2 E16)	^[4]^[57]^[50]
	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "Two Tonys" (S5 E1)	^[47]
	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "All Happy Families..." (S5 E4)	^[47]
2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	George Merritt	Episode: "Sex Club" (S4 E14)
2006	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "Johnny Cakes" (S6 E8)	^[47]
2007	The Simpsons	Psychologist	Episode: "Yokel Chords" (S18 E14)
	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "Stage 5" (S6 E14)	^[47]
	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	George Merritt	Episode: "Bombshell" (S6 E20)
	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "The Second Coming" (S6 E19)	^[47]
	The Sopranos	Elliot Kupferberg	Episode: "The Blue Comet" (S6 E20)	^[47]
2010	How I Met Your Mother	Himself	Episode: "Robots Versus Wrestlers" (S5 E22)	^[47]
2011	Rizzoli & Isles	Arnold Whistler	Episode: "Burning Down the House" (S2 E15)	^[14]
2014	The Good Wife	Himself	Episode: "Goliath and David" (S5 E11)	^[58]
2016	Documentary Now!	Himself	Episode: "Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid, Part 1" (S2 E6)	^[15]
2017	Get Shorty	Giustino Moreweather	Episode: "Turnaround" (S1 E9)	^[47]
2018			Episode: "Selenite" (S2 E3)
2019			Episode: "What To Do When You Land" (S3 E1)
2019			Episode: "Strong Move" (S3 E3)

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist	Ref.
2012	"Constant Conversations"	Passion Pit	^[59]

Additional credits

Year	Title	Credit	Ref.
1966	The Wild Angels	Assistant to the director and uncredited rewrite of the script	^[1]
1968	Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women	Directed additional scenes Under the pseudonym "Derek Thomas"	^[1]
1984	The City Girl	Executive producer
2014	Phantom Halo
2018	The Other Side of the Wind		^[4]

Unrealized projects

Year	Title and description	Ref.
1960s	The Land of Opportunity, a film about a young New York couple who get everything for free	^[2]
	A film adaptation of William Keepers Maxwell Jr.'s novel The Folded Leaf	^[60]
	Marco and His Brothers, a film with Polly Platt starring Sal Mineo	^[60]
	The Criminals, a World War II film with Polly Platt	^[61]^[2]^[60]
	Duck, You Sucker!	^[62]^[63]
1970s	A film adaptation of John H. Reese's novel The Looters with Polly Platt	^[64]^[65]
	The Getaway	^[66]^[2]
	The Long Goodbye starring Robert Mitchum or Lee Marvin	^[67]
	The Streets of Laredo, a Western written by Larry McMurtry, who later turned it into a novel, starring John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Ryan O'Neal, Cybill Shepherd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Ben Johnson and The Clancy Brothers	^[68]^[69]
	A film adaptation of John Galsworthy's short story "The Apple Tree" written by Gavin Lambert	^[68]
	The Texas Girl, a road movie inspired by Lolita starring Cybill Shepherd and Marcello Mastroianni	^[70]^[71]
	A film adaptation of Calder Willingham's novel Rambling Rose starring Cybill Shepherd, which he planned to make for The Directors Company	^[72]
	Bugsy, a biopic written by Howard Sackler about the life of mobster Bugsy Siegel starring Sal Mineo	^[73]^[74]^[75]
	A film adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's short story "The Girl with the Silver Eyes"	^[76]
	King of the Gypsies	^[77]^[78]
	Silver Streak	^[79]
	Dancing, a film written by John Cassavetes starring Cassavetes alongside Peter Falk, Cybill Shepard and Raquel Welch	^[80]
1980s	The Return of the Count, a love story starring John Cassavetes and Dorothy Stratten	^[81]
	A film adaptation of Norman Mailer's novel The Executioner's Song	^[82]
	Twelve's a Crowd, a film starring Keith Carradine and Colleen Camp to be shot in Hollywood	^[82]
	I'll Remember April, a film starring Colleen Camp, John Cassavetes and Charles Aznavour to be shot in Paris	^[83]^[82]^[84]
	A remake of the 1945 film noir Detour	^[82]
	Brewster's Millions starring John Ritter as Montgomery Brewster
	The Lady in the Moon, a film in which Larry McMurtry was to share producer, writer and director credit
	A film adaptation of Noël Coward's three-act play Private Lives starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton	^[82]^[85]^[86]
	Honkytonk Sue, a film based on the National Lampoon character written by Larry McMurtry starring Goldie Hawn	^[87]
	Wild About Harry, a screenplay from a story co-written by Bogdanovich with Colleen Camp to be directed by Martha Coolidge	^[88]
	A film adaptation of David Scott Milton's novel Paradise Road starring Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Charles Aznavour, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Sophia Loren and John Ritter	^[89]^[5]^[78]
	Along the Way, a film adaptation of Michael Brady's two-act play To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday starring Molly Ringwald	^[90]^[91]
	Saturday, Sunday, Monday, a contemporary comedy starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni as the heads of an Italian-American family	^[91]
	The Intimate Writings of Theodor Hammer, a film set in Arizona written by Judith Fein	^[92]^[93]
	A film adaptation of Robert Graves' novel The Golden Fleece	^[94]^[95]
	Seven Days to the North Wind, a film adaptation of Robert Graves' novel Seven Days in New Crete
	A film adaptation of Robert Graves' novel Wife to Mr. Milton
1990s	Another You	^[96]^[97]^[98]
	A segment of a six-hour documentary film titled Momentous Events: Russia in the '90s	^[99]
	Face Facts, a comedy written by Lynn Adams starring Stanley Tucci, Phoebe Cates, Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams	^[100]
	Wait for Me, a ghost comedy starring Michael Caine, Gena Rowlands, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Cybill Shepherd, Jerry Lewis and Quentin Tarantino	^[101]^[102]
2000s	A film adaptation of Sam Kashner's novel Sinatraland written by Christopher Trumbo starring Robert Downey Jr.	^[103]^[104]
	Blues of the Night, a film written by Evelyn Keyes about her teenage years in Hollywood	^[103]^[105]
	The Broken Code, a biopic about research scientist Rosalind Franklin written by David Baxter adapted from Anne Sayre's biography	^[106]^[107]
2010s	A film adaptation of Kurt Andersen's novel Turn of the Century with Parish Rahbar	^[108]^[109]
	A film adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel Duane's Depressed starring Jeff Bridges	^[110]
	One Lucky Moon, a comedy-drama with Nora Jobling starring Cybill Shepherd, Willie Nelson, Burt Reynolds, Eva Hassmann and Tom Petty	^[111]^[112]
	John Ledger, a drama written by Joey Camen starring Tom Sizemore as a car salesman who battles his addiction with sex	^[113]^[114]
	A TV miniseries adaptation of Edward Ball's novel The Inventor and the Tycoon	^[115]
	Untitled action thriller film	^[116]
2020s	A limited series based on his novel The Killing of the Unicorn	^[117]^[104]
	Saint Jack in the Philippines, a limited series based on his film Saint Jack	^[118]
	Our Love Is Here to Stay, a biopic with Sam Kashner about George and Ira Gershwin	^[104]^[119]

Bogdanovich turned down the opportunity to direct Catch-22,^[104] A Glimpse of Tiger,^[120] The Godfather,^[7] a sequel to What's Up, Doc?,^[69] The Exorcist, The Way We Were, Chinatown,^[4] a sequel to Paper Moon titled Harvest Moon,^[3] Rooster Cogburn,^[121] Heaven Can Wait, Hurricane,^[122]^[123] Popeye,^[124] as well as the TV miniseries Lonesome Dove, which had been adapted from the novel from which The Streets of Laredo was based on.^[125] He also turned down the role played by Dabney Coleman in Tootsie,^[82] and parts in The Electric Horseman and The Big Red One.^[126]

Stage productions

Year	Title	Author(s)	Venue	City	Notes	Ref.
1959	The Big Knife	Clifford Odets	Off-Broadway	New York City		^[127]
1960	The Big Knife	Clifford Odets	Off-Broadway	New York City
1961	Camino Reel	Tennessee Williams	Phoenicia Playhouse Community Theatre	Phoenicia
	Ten Little Indians	Agatha Christie
	Rocket to the Moon	Clifford Odets
1964	Once in a Lifetime	Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman	Off-Broadway	New York City
2004	Sacred Monsters	Himself	Sheridan Opera House	Telluride	One-man stage show	^[128]
2005			Sheridan Opera House	Telluride		^[128]
2006			Linwood Dunn Theatre	Los Angeles		^[129]

Audio commentaries, intros, etc.

Title	Credit	Found on	Ref.
Targets	Commentary & video introduction	Paramount Widescreen Collection	^[130]
The Last Picture Show	1991 commentary with actors Cybill Shepherd, Randy Quaid, Cloris Leachman and Frank Marshall	Criterion laserdisc	^[131]
The Last Picture Show	2009 solo commentary	Sony Pictures	^[132]
What's Up, Doc?	Commentary	Warner Home Video	^[133]
Paper Moon	Commentary	Warner Home Video	^[134]
Daisy Miller	Commentary & video introduction	Paramount Widescreen Collection	^[135]
Nickelodeon	Commentary	Sony Pictures	^[132]
Saint Jack	Commentary		^[136]
They All Laughed	Commentary & 2006 interview with filmmaker Wes Anderson	HBO Video	^[137]
Mask	Commentary & 2004 conversation	Universal	^[138]
The Thing Called Love	Commentary	Paramount Widescreen Collection	^[139]
The Cat's Meow	Commentary	Lionsgate Home Entertainment	^[140]
"Sentimental Education"	Commentary	HBO Video	^[141]
She's Funny That Way	Commentary with co-writer/producer Louise Stratten	Lionsgate Home Entertainment	^[142]
A Safe Place	1971 archival video interview	Criterion	^[143]
Bringing Up Baby	Commentary	Warner Home Video	^[144]
Citizen Kane	Commentary	Warner Home Video	^[145]
Clash by Night	Commentary with audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang	Warner Home Video	^[146]
El Dorado	Commentary	Paramount Centennial Collection	^[147]
F for Fake	Video introduction	Criterion	^[148]
Five Easy Pieces	2009 interviews from the documentary BBStory	Criterion	^[149]
Frances Ha	2013 conversation with filmmaker Noah Baumbach	Criterion	^[150]
French Cancan	Video introduction	Criterion	^[151]
Fury	Commentary with audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang	Warner Home Video	^[152]
La Bête Humaine	2004 interview	Criterion	^[153]
The Lady Eve	2001 video introduction & 2020 conversation with director Preston Sturges's biographer and son Tom Sturges and other participants	Criterion	^[154]
The Lady from Shanghai	Commentary	Columbia Classics	^[155]
Land of the Pharaohs	Commentary with audio interview excerpts of director Howard Hawks	Warner Home Video	^[156]
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog	Audio interview excerpts with director Alfred Hitchcock from 1963 and 1972	Criterion	^[157]
M	Commentary with audio interview excerpts of director Fritz Lang & 1965 archival audio interview with Lang	Eureka Video	^[158]
The Magnificent Ambersons	1978 archival interview with director Orson Welles	Criterion	^[159]
Make Way for Tomorrow	2009 interview	Criterion	^[160]
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Commentary with audio interview excerpts of director John Ford and co-star James Stewart	Paramount Centennial Collection	^[147]
Notorious	2009 interviews from the documentary Once Upon a Time... Notorious	Criterion	^[161]
Only Angels Have Wings	1972 archival audio excerpts with director Howard Hawks	Criterion	^[162]
Othello	1995 audio commentary with Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel	Criterion laserdisc	^[163]
Red River	2014 interview & 1972 archival audio excerpts with director Howard Hawks	Criterion	^[164]
The Rules of the Game	Reading commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske	Criterion	^[165]
The Searchers	Commentary	Warner Home Video	^[166]
"The Sopranos"	Commentary with Sopranos creator David Chase	HBO Video	^[167]
Stagecoach	Video appreciation	Criterion	^[168]
Strangers on a Train	Commentary with Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano and other participants	Warner Home Video	^[169]
The Third Man	Video introduction	Criterion	^[170]
To Catch a Thief	Commentary with film historian Laurent Bouzereau	Paramount Collectors Edition	^[171]
Trouble in Paradise	Video introduction	Criterion	^[172]

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