Peter Bogdanovich

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In what is the worst spell ever for people whose surnames begin with “Bogdano-“, Hollywood director and actor Peter Bogdanovich has died at 82. Enamoured with film from a young age – aged 12, he started to write reviews on index cards for every film he watched – his professional career began as a critic before deciding he wanted to follow in the footsteps of personal heroes Orson Welles and John Ford. His second film, The Last Picture Show, launched him into critical repute, with subsequent releases What’s Up, Doc? and Paper Moon held in similar regard. The films that followed tended to lower his batting average, as did the media frenzy surrounding his personal life (his affair with Cybill Shepherd, the murder of girlfriend Dorothy Stratten by her estranged husband, and his marriage to Stratten’s younger sister). But he still made the occasional warmly-received film, had a recurring acting role in The Sopranos, and achieved an acclaimed and major last hurrah in 2018 when he completed the Orson Welles film The Other Side of the Wind after a decades-long hiatus! He was a unique hit for Naked Florida Gravediggers.

Peter Bogdanovich
30 July 1939 – 6 January 2022, aged 82
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