Writer, director, actor and film historian Peter Bogdanovich has died age 82. His death was confirmed to NPR by his manager Fred Specktor.
Known as a maverick filmmaker, Bogdanovich made movies that ran the gamut from the bleak, 1971 coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show starring Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd to zany comedies like What's Up Doc. He made documentaries about Buster Keaton and Tom Petty. He acted in the HBO series The Sopranos as therapist Dr. Elliot Kupferberg.