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Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) was an Oscar®-nominated American writer, director and producer. Bogdanovich was part of the wave of “New Hollywood” directors in the late 1960s and 1970s. His greatest success came in the early 1970s with such films as The Last Picture Show, What’s Up Doc? and Paper Moon. His IMDb page shows over 100 credits since 1958. This page will rank Peter Bogdanovich movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, shorts, cameos, uncredited roles, and movies that were not released in North American were not included in the rankings. This page only ranks the movies Peter Bogdanovich directed.
Peter Bogdanovich Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews, and awards.
Peter Bogdanovich Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
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Possibly Interesting Facts About Peter Bogdanovich
1. Peter Bogdanovich was born in Kingston, New York in 1939. He is the son of immigrants fleeing the Nazis.
2. In the early 1960s, Peter Bogdanovich was known as a film programmer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. An obsessive cinema-goer, seeing up to 400 movies a year in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as Orson Welles, John Ford, and Howard Hawks. Bogdanovich kept a card file of every film he saw between 1952 and 1970, with complete reviews of every film.
3. Peter Bognadovich’s first directed movie was 1968’s Targets starring Boris Karloff. He was offered the chance to direct after talking to Roger Corman after a screening on another movie.
4. Peter Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with Orson Welles while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols’s Catch-22 (1970). Bogdanovich played a major role in elucidating Welles and his career with his writings on the actor-director, most notably his book This is Orson Welles (1992). In the early 1970s, when Welles was having financial problems, Bogdanovich let him stay at his Bel Air mansion for a couple of years.
5. Peter Bogdanovich was the boyfriend of Playboy Playmate of the year Dorothy Stratten (1980) who was murdered by her estranged jealous husband.
6. Peter Bogdanovich was offered the chance to direct The Godfather (1972), but turned down producer Robert Evans, as did several other directors. It was only then that Evans hired Francis Ford Coppola.
7. Peter Bogdanovich directed 6 different actors in Oscar®-nominated performances: Ben Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Ellen Burstyn, Tatum O’Neal and Madeline Kahn. Johnson, Leachman and O’Neal all won Oscars for their performances.
8. Peter Bogdanovich was the partner of Cybill Shepherd from 1971 to 1978. The movie Irreconcilable Differences (1984) is loosely based on the marriage of Bogdanovich and Polly Pratt. Ryan O’Neal has the Bogdanovich part, Shelley Long has the Pratt part and Sharon Stone has the Shepherd part.
9. The movie Irreconcilable Differences (1984) is loosely based on the marriage and divorce of Bogdanovich and set decorator Polly Pratt. Ryan O’Neal has the Bogdanovich part, Shelley Long has the Pratt part and Sharon Stone has the Shepherd part.
10. Check out Peter Bogdanovich‘s career compared to current and classic actors. Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time.
R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich. Loved the interviews he did with greats like Orson Welles, John Ford and especially Alfred Hitchcock.
Rest in peace Peter Bogdanovich. My favourite film was The Last Picture Show. So sad to have two artists die within a day of each other.
I’ve seen 5 of the 17 films on the chart – Targets, What’s Up Doc?, Mask, Saint Jack and The Last Picture Show. Targets is my favorite of the 5.
Interesting trivia on Peter Bogdanovich, like Tarantino he was a massive film fan who became a director. I’ve read some of his interviews with famous actors and directors. In fact I have a couple of his books here in my collection, hang on let me check… Who the Devil Made It – Conversations With Legendary Film Directors, and Who the Hell’s in It – Conversations With Hollywood’s Legendary Actors.
Good stuff Bruce. Vote Up!
Hey Steve….thanks for checking out our Peter B. page. He has always interested me. From his documentaries on John Ford and Howard Hawks to his early successes…Targets is a cult classic with horror legend Boris Karloff……to his lesser known movies like Noises Off and They All Laughed. That is cool that you have some of his books…..I have read Who The Devil Made It…but I do not own it. Thanks for the feedback and the vote up.
I have seen the top 3 Peter Bogdanovich movies.
The Last Picture Show is a favourite. Paper Moon and What’s Up Doc? are not
Hey Flora…thanks for checking out our Peter Bogdanovich movie page. Tally count: Me at 13, Steve at 5 and you at 3. I have seen all three of the ones you have seen. I like What’s Up Doc? more than you….I like that it is remake of the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn Bringing Up Baby….though Streisand and O’Neal are nowhere near as good as Grant and Hepburn. Good stuff as always.
Awesome UMR Page
Thank you Mike.