Blake Edwards
Writer and director Blake Edwards was best known for helming the "Pink Panther" comedies of the 1960s and 1970s, but his contributions to entertainment stretched far beyond those wildly popular slapstick tales of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau. He made a name for himself as a "modern cinema" original by combining a colorful visual style with a knack for layered jokes and subtle blend of high and low humor in films like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961) and "A Shot in the Dark" (1964), and as the creator of the stylish detective series "Peter Gunn" (NBC, 1958-1960, ABC, 1961). A career-long collaboration with composer Henry Mancini's playful compositions became a crucial element in this creative vision. During the 1970s and 1980s, Edwards balanced his ongoing "Pink Panther" releases with more personal, dramatic material that explored the lives of aging artists and society's evolving sexual conventions, best exemplified in his 1979 hit, "10." Only a handful of Edwards' 39 films were hailed with Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, but ongoing creative disputes with studio executives compromised what might have been an even larger body of revered work. Misfires notwithstanding, Edwards earned enormous respect among the film industry and his comedies remained popular for generations.
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Blake Edwards
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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83% |
|
I Remember Me | Self | $4.0K | 2001 |
6% |
|
Son of the Pink Panther |
Director, Screenwriter |
$2.4M | 1993 |
29% |
|
Switch | Director | $14.2M | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peter Gunn |
Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer |
- | 1989 |
32% |
|
Skin Deep |
Director, Screenwriter |
$19.4M | 1989 |
21% |
|
Sunset | Director | $3.4M | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Justin Case | Director | - | 1988 |
24% |
|
Blind Date | Director | $37.5M | 1987 |
60% |
|
That's Life! | Director | $3.6M | 1986 |
25% |
|
A Fine Mess |
Director, Screenwriter |
$5.0M | 1986 |
22% |
|
City Heat | Screenwriter | - | 1984 |
70% |
|
Micki & Maude | Director | - | 1984 |
29% |
|
Curse of the Pink Panther |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1983 |
25% |
|
The Man Who Loved Women |
Director, Producer |
- | 1983 |
23% |
|
Trail of the Pink Panther |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1982 |
97% |
|
Victor/Victoria |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1982 |
81% |
|
S.O.B. |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1981 |
64% |
|
10 |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1979 |
84% |
|
Revenge of the Pink Panther |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1978 |
72% |
|
The Pink Panther Strikes Again |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1976 |
86% |
|
The Return of the Pink Panther |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Tamarind Seed | Director | - | 1974 |
60% |
|
The Carey Treatment | Director | - | 1972 |
60% |
|
Wild Rovers |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1971 |
40% |
|
Darling Lili |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1970 |
83% |
|
The Party |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunn |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1967 |
50% |
|
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? |
Director, Producer |
- | 1966 |
69% |
|
The Great Race | Director | - | 1965 |
94% |
|
A Shot in the Dark |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1964 |
No Score Yet |
|
Soldier in the Rain |
Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1963 |
89% |
|
The Pink Panther |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1963 |
100% |
|
Experiment in Terror |
Director, Producer |
- | 1962 |
100% |
|
Days of Wine and Roses | Director | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Notorious Landlady | Writer | - | 1962 |
88% |
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Director | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
|
High Time | Director | - | 1960 |
81% |
|
Operation Petticoat | Director | - | 1959 |
100% |
|
The Perfect Furlough | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
|
This Happy Feeling |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1958 |
No Score Yet |
|
Operation Mad Ball | Screenwriter | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mister Cory | Director | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | He Laughed Last |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1956 |
83% |
|
My Sister Eileen | Screenwriter | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bring Your Smile Along |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
|
Drive a Crooked Road | Screenwriter | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Atomic Kid | Writer | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | All Ashore | Screenwriter | - | 1953 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder | Screenwriter | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Panhandle |
Floyd Schofield (Character), Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
|
Strangler of the Swamp | Christian 'Chris' Sanders Jr. (Character) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marshal of Reno | Lee (Character) | - | 1944 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pink Panther Show | Writer | 1969-1970 1976 2003 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Peter Gunn | Producer | 1958-1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Lucky |
Director, Writer |
1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mickey Rooney Show | Writer | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Four Star Playhouse | Writer | 1952 |