William Blake Crump (born July 26, 1922), better known as Blake Edwards, is an Academy Award–winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven screenplays for Richard Quine.
His early career as a script-writer was for radio. His hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective b...
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William Blake Crump (born July 26, 1922), better known as Blake Edwards, is an Academy Award–winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven screenplays for Richard Quine.
His early career as a script-writer was for radio. His hard-boiled private detective scripts for Richard Diamond, Private Detective became NBC's answer to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, reflecting Edwards' unique humor. Edwards also created, wrote and directed the 1959 TV series Peter Gunn, with music by Henry Mancini. In the same year Blake Edwards produced, with Mancini's musical theme Mr. Lucky, an adventure series on CBS starring John Vivyan and Ross Martin. Mancini's association with Edwards continued in his film work, significantly contributing to their success.
Edwards' most popular films have been comedies, the alcoholism-themed melodrama Days of Wine and Roses being...
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