Peter Bogdanovich is dead. The director of “Maska” was 82 years old

Peter Bogdanovich was born in 1939 in New York to a family of Serbian immigrants fleeing from Europe to America from Nazism.

In the 1950s, he began studying acting with Stella Adler. In 1968 he directed his first cinema movie “Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women”. The turning point in his career was “The Last Film Show” from 1971, in which he presented a nostalgic picture of provincial America, heralding the end of the world of falling values. He was nominated for an Oscar in eight categories, and the statuettes were won by Cloris Leachman and Ben Johnson for supporting roles.

While working on the set, he got involved with actress Cybill Shepherd, for whom he left his wife Polly Platt, with whom he often collaborated on the set. Together, they had two daughters, Antonia and Sasha.

He was also famous for his painting “The Mask”, the true story of a sensitive boy Rocky Dennis suffering from a rare disease of the bones of the face (the so-called lion disease). In the following years, he created, among others “Paper Moon” with the Oscar-winning role of 10-year-old Tatum O’Neal, playing alongside her father Ryan O’Neal, or Daisy Miller – the adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James.

Bogdanovich is also the author of the film biography of the great director Orson Welles.

Peter Bogdanovich also made himself known as an actor. He has performed, inter alia, in the series “The Sopranos” as a psychotherapist.

The last films he made were: “The Girl Worth Sinning” (2014) and “The Great Buster: A Celebration” (2018), a documentary about the silent film legend Buster Keaton.