Blake Edwards(1922-2010)
- Writer
- Producer
- Director
Blake Edwards' stepfather's father
J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen
director, and his stepfather
Jack McEdward was a stage
director and movie production manager. Blake acted in a number films,
beginning with
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
and wrote a number of others, beginning with
Panhandle (1948) and including six for
director Richard Quine. He created the
popular TV series
Peter Gunn (1958),
Mr. Lucky (1959) and
Dante (1960). He directed a diverse
body of films, from comedies to dramas to war films to westerns,
including such pictures as
Operation Petticoat (1959),
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961),
Experiment in Terror (1962),
Days of Wine and Roses (1962),
The Pink Panther (1963) and
A Shot in the Dark (1964).
After The Great Race (1965) he
began fighting with studios. In England he surfaced again with
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975),
then went back to Hollywood and a real hit,
10 (1979).
Victor/Victoria (1982) won him
French and Italian awards for Best Foreign Film.
