Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

Directing

Born July 30, 1939 · Kingston, New York, USA

33 films as director · Active 1968–2018

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 Esq…

Known for

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

2001

The Sopranos

The Sopranos

1999

The Good Wife

The Good Wife

2009

The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show

1961

How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother

2005

Directed(33)

The Great Buster: A Celebration

2018The Great Buster: A Celebration★ 7.2

She's Funny That Way

2015She's Funny That Way★ 5.9

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream

2007Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream★ 7.7

Hustle

2004Hustle★ 5.0

The Mystery of Natalie Wood

2004The Mystery of Natalie Wood★ 5.5

The Cat's Meow

2002The Cat's Meow★ 5.8

A Saintly Switch

1999A Saintly Switch★ 6.3

Naked City: A Killer Christmas

1998Naked City: A Killer Christmas★ 3.8

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

1997Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women★ 8.5

Blessed Assurance

1997Blessed Assurance★ 7.0

To Sir, with Love II

1996To Sir, with Love II★ 6.4

Picture Windows: Song of Songs

1994Picture Windows: Song of Songs★ 8.0

The Thing Called Love

1993The Thing Called Love★ 6.1

Noises Off...

1992Noises Off...★ 7.2

Texasville

1990Texasville★ 6.0

Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief

1989Friend to Friend: Armenian Earthquake Relief

Illegally Yours

1988Illegally Yours★ 4.5

Mask

1985Mask★ 7.3

They All Laughed

1981They All Laughed★ 5.9

Saint Jack

1979Saint Jack★ 6.6

Nickelodeon

1976Nickelodeon★ 6.1

At Long Last Love

1975At Long Last Love★ 5.1

Daisy Miller

1974Daisy Miller★ 6.3

Paper Moon

1973Paper Moon★ 7.9

What's Up, Doc?

1972What's Up, Doc?★ 7.4

The Last Picture Show

1971The Last Picture Show★ 7.6

Directed by John Ford

1971Directed by John Ford★ 7.0

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

1968Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women★ 3.2

Targets

1968Targets★ 7.1

Acting(222)

2024Keep Your Sunny Side Up: The Ballad of Addie and MozeSelf (Archival Footage)

2024Willie and MeCharley

2023The Wild OneSelf

2023John Wayne: Cowboys & DemonsSelf

2022Fragments of ParadiseSelf

2022The Lost Print: The Making of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent AmbersonsSelf

2021Dean Martin: King of CoolSelf

2021Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the MonsterSelf

2021Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop CinemaSelf

2020I Am Burt ReynoldsSelf - Interviewee

2020AudreySelf - Filmmaker

2020Skin: A History of Nudity in the MoviesSelf

2020Morning Has BrokenShem

2020Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight MadnessSelf

2020Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All TimeSelf

2020Talking SopranosSelf

2019The Death of a Playmate: The Dorothy Stratten Story 20/20Self (archive footage)

2019It Chapter TwoPeter - Director

2019The CreatressTheo Mencken

2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline KaelSelf

2019Carl LaemmleHimself

2018RebornPeter Bogdanovich

2018The Other Side of the WindBrooks Otterlake

2018Tesla NationHimself

2018The Great Buster: A CelebrationNarrator (voice)

2018A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the MakingSelf - Executive Producer, Actor

2018They'll Love Me When I'm DeadSelf

2018Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr StorySelf

2018Los Angeles OvernightVedor Ph.D.

2017We Blew ItSelf

2017Cult of TerrorSelf - Filmmaker

2017Get ShortyGiustino Moreweather

2017The Fabulous Allan CarrSelf (voice)

2017Hawks on HawksSelf (voice)

2016Six L.A. Love StoriesDuane Crawford

2016Hollywood Confidential - Les égouts du paradisHimself

2016Between UsGeorge

2016The Tell-Tale HeartOld Man

2016Durant's Never ClosesGeorge

2015Hitchcock/TruffautSelf

2015This Is Orson WellesSelf

2015Pearly GatesMarty

2015She's Funny That WaySelf in TV clip (uncredited)

2015While We're YoungSpeaker

2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson WellesSelf - Filmmaker

2014The True Adventures of Raoul WalshSelf

2014One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American FilmSelf

2014A Film of Firsts: Peter Bogdanovich on Red RiverSelf

2013Cold TurkeyPoppy

2013Are You HereJudge Harlan Plath

2013Don't Let Me GoMan

2013Stardust Hollywood - Sternenstaub und GötterweltenSelf

2012Casting BySelf

2012John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet ManSelf

2011Corman's WorldSelf - Filmmaker

2011By Bogdanovich

2011Hollywood ScandalsSelf

2011100 Jahre Hollywood - Die Carl Laemmle StorySelf

2011Jeff Bridges: The Dude AbidesSelf

2010Godard Made in USASelf

2010BBStory: An American Film RenaissanceSelf

2010America Lost and Found: The BBS StorySelf

2010Queen of the LotPedja Sapir

2010Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of HollywoodSelf

2010AbandonedDr. Markus Bensley

2010Rizzoli & IslesArnold Whistler

2010An Appreciation of Stageocach with Peter BogdanovichSelf

2010Tomorrow, Yesterday, and TodaySelf

2010Heavy RainHimself

2010Marilyn Monroe: I Want to Be LovedSelf

2009A Discussion with Filmmaker Peter BogdanovichSelf

2009Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie WoodSelf

2009The Good WifePeter Bogdanovich

2009Vittorio D.Self

2009Once Upon a Time... 'Notorious'Self

2009The Size of Legends, The Soul of MythSelf

2009No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & VilmosSelf

2008Hollywood GangsterSelf

2008Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism & Salvador DaliSelf

2008The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'

2008Alfred Hitchcock: The Ultimate SpymasterSelf

2008The Making of 'Rebecca'Self

2008The Sound of Silence: The Making of 'The Lodger'

2008Humboldt CountyProfessor Hadley

2008The DoormanPeter

2008Il falso bugiardoSelf (archive footage)

2008Guilt by Association: Psychoanalyzing 'Spellbound'Self

2007365 Day ProjectSelf

2007The Fifth PatientJohn Reilly

2007DedicationRoger Spade

2007Broken EnglishIrving Mann

2007The DukesLou Fiola

2007The 50 Greatest Television DramasSelf

2007Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'Self

2006Searching for OrsonNarrator

2006InfamousBennett Cerf

2006The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent BirdSelf

2006WanderlustHimself

2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and BlockbustersSelf

2006Edge of OutsideSelf

2006Stagecoach: A Story of RedemptionSelf - Director, Writer, Actor

2006The Informer: Out of the FogSelf

2006Jerry Lewis - König der KomödiantenSelf (archive footage)

2006Jenseits von Hollywood – Das Kino des Otto PremingerHimself

2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do ThatSelf

2005The Definition of Insanity

2005How I Met Your MotherPeter Bogdanovich

2005Silent Hollywood: Cult, Stars, ScandalsSelf

2004Hitchcock and Dial MSelf

2004Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock ClassicSelf

2004Before the Fact: Suspicious HitchcockSelf

2004Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I ConfessSelf

20043D: A Brief History

2004Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'Self

2004Mr. Hitchcock Meets the SmithsSelf

2004Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'Self

2004Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-ScreenSelf

2004Cary Grant: A Class ApartSelf

2004Scene StealersPeter Bogdanovich

2004Hollywood LegendenSelf

2004'Mask' Revealed: A Conversation with Peter Bogdanovich

2003The Next Picture ShowSelf

2003Getting the MoonSelf

2003Out of OrderZach

2003A Decade Under the InfluenceSelf

2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved HollywoodSelf

20028 Simple RulesDr. Lohr

2002It Ain't As Easy As It Looks... (...a.k.a. the Making of 'The Cat's Meow')Self

2002New York at the MoviesSelf

2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love StoriesSelf

2002HighballFrank

2002John Ford Goes to WarSelf - Interviewee

2001Festival in CannesMilo

2001Law & Order: Criminal IntentGeorge Merritt

2001It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International PicturesNarrator (voice)

2001Schlock! The Secret History of American MoviesHimself

2001'Rear Window' Ethics: Remembering and Restoring a Hitchcock ClassicSelf

2001The Story of 'Frenzy'Self

2000On CukorSelf

2000The IndependentPeter Bogdanovich

2000Orson Welles in the Land of Don QuixoteSelf

2000Backstory: 'How Green Was My Valley'Self

2000A Constant ForgeSelf

2000The Trouble with 'Marnie'Self

2000All About 'The Birds'Self

2000The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter BogdanovichSelf

2000Rated XFilm Professor

2000Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite FilmSelf

1999Hitchcock: Shadow of a GeniusSelf

1999Coming SoonBartholomew

1999Claire Makes It BigArturo Mulligan

1999The Last Picture Show: A Look BackSelf

1999Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of HollywoodSelf

1999The SopranosDr. Elliot Kupferberg

1998Lick the StarPrincipal

199854Elaine's Patron

1998Mr. JealousyDr. Howard Poke

1998Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des ErfolgsSelf

1998Ruhm in der Niederlage - John Ford und der Zweite WeltkriegHimself

1997Bella MafiaVito Giancamo

1997Who Is Henry Jaglom?Self

1997Howard Hawks: American ArtistSelf

1996Love in HollywoodSelf

1996E! True Hollywood Story

1996Ballyhoo: The Hollywood Sideshow!

1996The Battle Over Citizen KaneSelf

1995Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

1995Picture WindowsLucca

1995The Death of Playboy Playmate

1994Picture Windows: Song of SongsLucca

1994Hitchcock: Alfred the GreatHimself

1994American CinemaSelf

1993Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War IISelf

1993Working with Orson WellesHimself

1992Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New WaveSelf

1991Preminger: Anatomy of a FilmmakerSelf

1991The Complete 'Citizen Kane'

1991Picture ThisSelf

1990Hollywood MavericksSelf

1990Northern ExposureHimself

1990With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in FilmSelf

1989The SimpsonsPsychologist (voice)

1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group TheatreSelf (voice)

1989John Wayne Standing TallSelf

1989Arena - John CassavetesSelf

1988Bacall on BogartSelf

1988On the tracks of a filmmakerPeter Bogdanovich

1987James Stewart: A Wonderful LifeSelf

1987Out of the Blue and Into the BlackSelf

1987Pieces of Time: Bogdanovich on the MoviesSelf

1985Dorothy Stratten: The Untold Story

1982Barry Norman in Celebrity CitySelf

1982The Orson Welles StorySelf

1981They All LaughedDisk Jockey (uncredited)

1979Saint JackEddie Schuman

1977Opening NightSelf (uncredited)

1977Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hastSelf

1976Lost, Lost, LostSelf

1973F for FakeSelf

1973The American Film Institute Salute to ...Self

1972Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?Self

1971Notes on the New York Film FestivalSelf

1971Film '72Self

1971The Last Picture ShowDJ (voice) (uncredited)

1971Directed by John FordSelf - Interviewer (uncredited)

1971Great PerformancesSelf

1969Lions LovePeter (uncredited)

1968Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric WomenNarrator (voice)

1968TargetsSammy Michaels

1968The Dick Cavett ShowSelf - Guest

1967The TripPaul's Cameraman (uncredited)

1966The Wild AngelsTownsman at Loser's Funeral (uncredited)

1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf

1962The Merv Griffin ShowSelf

1961The Mike Douglas ShowSelf

Invisible WomenHimself

Horrifying Hollywood MurdersSelf

The Making of 'Rebecca'Self