Peter Bogdanovich, one of the great directors of ‘New Hollywood’ films, has died at the age of 82.

The Oscar-nominated filmmaker and actor passed away from natural causes, with his daughter confirming the news.

Born in New York, Bogdanovich started his career as both a film programmer and a critic, writing articles for Esquire.

After moving to Los Angeles and striking up a friendship with director Roger Corman, he secured his first directing gigs in 1968; the critical flop Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women and the crime thriller Targets.

However, it was his third film that ended up being his most successful. In 1971, he helmed the drama The Last Picture Show, which centred on a group of disillusioned students in a desolate town.

The film was a critical hit and later scored eight Oscar nominations and two wins, with Bogdanovich earning double nods for directing and writing (as well as a BAFTA win in 1973).

However, his involvement in the project was tainted by his love affair with young starlet Cybill Shepherd that led to the end of his first marriage to the film’s set designer, Polly Platt.

Despite that episode, Bogdanovich followed up The Last Picture Show with the screwball comedy What’s Up Doc? (1972) which starred Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. The film was another hit and quickly led to another collaboration between Bogdanovich and O’Neal.

The pair worked on the buddy comedy Paper Moon (1973) in which the leading man was overshadowed by his real-life daughter Tatum. Her turn as a feisty young con-artist won her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar at the age of just ten.

Bogdanovich’s flourishing career soon began to stutter, with back-to-back Cybill Shepherd films Daisy Miller (1974) and At Long Last Love (1975) both being critical disappointments.

After mixed results with the likes of Nickelodeon (1976) and Saint Jack (1979), he earned modest praise for his work on the emotional drama Mask (1985) which focused on a teenage boy’s struggle with a deformed face.

However, his decision to make a sequel to The Last Picture Show proved a bad one, as Texasville (1990) flopped with critics despite the involvement of original stars Jeff Bridges and Shepherd.

Towards the end of his filmmaking career, Bogdanovich helmed To Sir, with Love II (1996), a television sequel to the original 1967 flick with Sidney Poitier.

His last major film came in 2014 when he directed the romantic comedy She’s Funny That Way with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston.

Away from filmmaking, Bogdanovich also plied his trade as an actor with appearances in the likes of Moonlighting (1987), 8 Simple Rules (2004), Infamous (2006), How I Met Your Mother (2010) and IT: Chapter Two (2019).

However, his most memorable role came as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, the supportive therapist of Dr. Jennifer Melfi in fourteen episodes of the hit HBO crime series The Sopranos (2000-07).

Bogdanovich is survived by his two children Antonia and Sashy.