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Blake Edwards
William Blake Crump (born July 26, 1922), better known as Blake Edwards, is an Academy Award–nominated American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 2004 he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing and producing an extraordinary body of work for the...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. The film was directed by Blake Edwards and released by Paramount Pictures. It was...
Initial release date:
- 1961
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Runtime:
- 115 min (69 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 2,500,000 (US$)
Days of Wine and Roses
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) is a film directed by Blake Edwards with a screenplay by JP Miller adapted from his own critically acclaimed 1958 teleplay for Playhouse 90 of the same name (see: Days of Wine and Roses, 1958 TV drama). The movie was...
Initial release date:
- Dec 26, 1962
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Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
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Screenplay by:
Victor/Victoria
Victor Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film, which involves transvestism and sexual identity as central themes. It stars Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and John Rhys-Davies. The film was produced by...
Initial release date:
- Mar 16, 1982
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Runtime:
- 132 min (79.2 hs )
The Great Race
The Great Race is a 1965 slapstick comedy movie directed by Blake Edwards, written by Blake Edwards and Arthur A. Ross, with music by Henry Mancini and cinematography by Russell Harlan. Starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk,...
Initial release date:
- Jul 1, 1965
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Runtime:
- 160 min (96 hs )
The Party
The Party (alternative title: Hollywood Party) is a 1968 comedy written and directed by Blake Edwards, starring Peter Sellers (in what was his only non-Pink Panther collaboration with Edwards) and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure...
Initial release date:
- 1968
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Runtime:
- 99 min (59 hs )
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S.O.B.
S.O.B. is a 1981 film written and directed by Blake Edwards starring Richard Mulligan and Julie Andrews. Also appearing are Robert Vaughn, Robert Preston, Larry Hagman, Shelley Winters, Loretta Swit, Robert Loggia and William Holden (in his last...
Initial release date:
- Jul 1, 1981
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Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
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Blind Date
Blind Date is a 1987 comedy/romance film, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Kim Basinger and Bruce Willis. The film was originally intended for the recently married Madonna and Sean Penn, but both backed out at the last minute. It was Willis'...
Initial release date:
- Mar 27, 1987
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
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10
10 is a 1979 romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bo Derek, Dudley Moore, and Julie Andrews. Considered a trend-setting film at the time, and one of the year's biggest box office hits, the film made superstars of Derek and...
Initial release date:
- Oct 5, 1979
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Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
Screenplay by:
A Shot in the Dark
A Shot in the Dark is a 1964 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and is the second installment in the Pink Panther series. Peter Sellers is featured again as Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté. Clouseau's bumbling personality is...
Initial release date:
- Jun 23, 1964
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
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Operation Petticoat
Operation Petticoat is a 1959 comedic film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, and Dina Merrill, later adapted for television in 1977.
The film tells in flashback form the story of a fictional World War II American...
Initial release date:
- 1959
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Runtime:
- 124 min (74.4 hs )
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Micki + Maude
Micki + Maude (1984) is a comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore. It co-stars Tony-award winning actress and dancer Ann Reinking as Micki and Amy Irving as Maude.
In 1985, Moore won the Golden Globe award for Best...
Initial release date:
- Dec 21, 1984
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Runtime:
- 118 min (70.8 hs )
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Trail of the Pink Panther is a 1982 comedy film starring Peter Sellers. It was the seventh film in the Pink Panther series, and the last in which Peter Sellers starred as Inspector Jacques Clouseau, although Sellers died before production began and...
Initial release date:
- Dec 17, 1982
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Runtime:
- 96 min (58 hs )
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the fifth film in the Pink Panther series and picks up where The Return of the Pink Panther leaves off. Released in 1976, Strikes Again is the third entry to include the words "Pink Panther" in its title, despite...
Initial release date:
- Dec 15, 1976
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 6,000,000 (US$)
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The Return of the Pink Panther
The Return of the Pink Panther is the fourth film in the Pink Panther series, released in 1975. The film stars Peter Sellers in the role of Inspector Clouseau in his third Panther appearance, after the original The Pink Panther and A Shot in the...
Initial release date:
- May 21, 1975
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Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Curse of the Pink Panther is a 1983 comedy film, the eighth installment of the Pink Panther series of films started by Blake Edwards in the early 1960s.
The film was one of two produced concurrently following the death of the series' star, Peter...
Initial release date:
- Dec 12, 1983
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Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
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Son of the Pink Panther
Son of the Pink Panther (1993) is the ninth entry in the 30-year-old Pink Panther film series. Directed by Blake Edwards, it stars Roberto Benigni as Inspector Clouseau's illegitimate son. Also in this film are Panther regulars Herbert Lom, Burt...
Initial release date:
- Aug 27, 1993
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Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, is a 1963 comedy film, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine and Claudia Cardinale.
Intended as the first in a series of films based on...
Initial release date:
- Dec 19, 1963
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Produced by:
Skin Deep
Skin Deep is a 1989 film starring John Ritter, written and directed by Blake Edwards.
Zachary "Zach" Hutton is a successful author who has a weakness for alcohol and beautiful women. Zach's mistress walks in on him in the process of cheating on her,...
Initial release date:
- 1989
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Runtime:
- 97 min (58 hs )
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The Man Who Loved Women
The Man Who Loved Women is a 1983 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews and Kim Basinger. It is a remake of the 1977 French film L'Homme qui aimait les femmes.
It chronicles the affairs of an artist, David...
Initial release date:
- Dec 16, 1983
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Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
Screenplay by:
High Time
High Time is a 1960 collegiate comedic film, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Bing Crosby. The film is told from the perspective of a middle-aged man who enters the world of a new generation of postwar youth. In the years since its release,...
Initial release date:
- Sep 16, 1960
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Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Produced by:
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Revenge of the Pink Panther is the sixth film in the Pink Panther film series. Released in 1978, Revenge of was the last entry featuring series star Peter Sellers, who died in 1980. Director Blake Edwards would attempt to keep the series alive with...
Initial release date:
- Jun 19, 1978
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Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
Sunset
Sunset is a 1988 film released by TriStar Pictures. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, the movie stars Bruce Willis as legendary western actor Tom Mix and James Garner as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
The story is based on Rod Amateau's novel...
Initial release date:
- Apr 29, 1988
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Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
The Tamarind Seed
The Tamarind Seed is a 1974 Blake Edwards film starring Julie Andrews as Judith Farrow, a British Home Office functionary and Omar Sharif as Feodor, a Soviet air attaché – lovers involved in Cold War intrigue. The soundtrack was by John Barry. The...
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Bring Your Smile Along
Bring Your Smile Along is a 1955 comedy film by Blake Edwards. It was Edwards' directorial debut. Edwards wrote the script for this Frankie Laine musical with his mentor, director Richard Quine. Songs Laine sang in the film included his 1951 hit ...
Initial release date:
- Jun 22, 1955
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Runtime:
- 83 min (50 hs )
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He Laughed Last
He Laughed Last is a 1956 film by Blake Edwards. A Runyonesque Roaring 20s musical comedy about a show girl who circumstance casts as an unlikely mob boss. Edwards adapted the film for his 1999 off-Broadway show, Big Rosemary. Edwards directed Cady...
Initial release date:
- Aug 12, 1956
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 77 min (46 hs )
Produced by:
Mister Cory
Mister Cory is a 1957 film by Blake Edwards starring Tony Curtis as a con artist who almost reforms. The film was atypical of Hollywood fare of its day, but found favor with avant garde critics, including Jean Luc Godard who praised the film and...
Initial release date:
- Feb 23, 1957
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Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
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This Happy Feeling
This Happy Feeling is a 1958 film by Blake Edwards adapted from the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Edwards regretted Universal's eleventh hour decision of a name change, but the studio was hoping to trade off another pop hit by Debbie...
Initial release date:
- Jun 18, 1958
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
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The Perfect Furlough
The Perfect Furlough is a 1958 film by Blake Edwards. The service comedy was written by Stanley Shapiro. Edwards and Shapiro would re-team the following year for another Tony Curtis service comedy, Operation Petticoat.
Initial release date:
- Oct 1958
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Runtime:
- 93 min (56 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Experiment in Terror
Experiment in Terror is a 1962 crime film directed by Blake Edwards and written by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon based on their 1961 novel Operation Terror. The film stars Glenn Ford and Lee Remick and is highlighted by Henry Mancini's score and...
Initial release date:
- Apr 13, 1962
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Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? is a 1966 comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards.
In 1943, during Operation Husky when asked by General Bolt (Carroll O'Connor) about the little Italian village called Valerno, his hitherto adjutant...
Initial release date:
- Aug 31, 1966
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 123 min (73.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 7,000,000 (US$)
Produced by:
Gunn
Gunn is a 1967 mystery film directed by Blake Edwards, and starring Craig Stevens. It featured the same lead character from the 1958-1961 television series Peter Gunn, and a Henry Mancini score but the characters of Gunn's singing girlfriend Edie...
Initial release date:
- Jun 28, 1967
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Runtime:
- 94 min (56 hs )
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Darling Lili
Darling Lili is a 1970 American musical film. The screenplay was written by William Peter Blatty and Blake Edwards, who also directed. The cast included Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, and Jeremy Kemp.
Set during World War I, it centers on Lili Smith ...
Initial release date:
- Jun 24, 1970
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Runtime:
- 136 min (81.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 25,000,000 (US$)
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Wild Rovers
Wild Rovers is a 1971 American Western film directed by Blake Edwards and starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal.
Originally intended as a three-hour epic, it was heavily edited and changed by the studio without Edwards' knowledge, including a...
Initial release date:
- Jun 23, 1971
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Runtime:
- 136 min (81.6 hs )
Screenplay by:
The Carey Treatment
The Carey Treatment is a 1972 film by Blake Edwards based on the novel A Case of Need credited to Jeffrey Hudson, a pseudonym for Michael Crichton.
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in an...
Initial release date:
- Mar 29, 1972
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Produced by:
A Fine Mess
A Fine Mess is a 1986 film by Blake Edwards.
The film was intended as a remake of Laurel & Hardy's classic short "The Music Box" and was to be semi-improvised in the same style as the director's earlier comedy, The Party, but studio interference,...
Initial release date:
- Aug 8, 1986
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
That's Life!
That's Life! is a 1986 film with Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews, directed by Blake Edwards.
The film was made independently by Edwards using largely his own finances and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Although Columbia released the film,...
Initial release date:
- Sep 26, 1986
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 102 min (61.2 hs )
Switch
Switch is a 1991 comedy film written and directed by Blake Edwards. A promiscuous man (Perry King) is murdered by his lovers and reincarnated as a beautiful woman (Ellen Barkin). The original music score was composed and performed by Henry Mancini...
Initial release date:
- May 10, 1991
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Justin Case
Justin Case is a 1988 television movie by Blake Edwards. George Carlin stars as a private investigator named Justin Case. Justin is found dead in his office by Jennifer Spalding (Molly Hagan) who's an out of work dancer there for an interview for a...
Initial release date:
- May 15, 1988
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 71 min (43 hs )
Produced by:
Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn is a TV film by Blake Edwards.
It was intended as a pilot to relaunch the Peter Gunn franchise starring Peter Strauss in the Craig Stevens role. The pilot was aired, but a TV series was not commissioned.
Initial release date:
- Apr 23, 1989
Directed by:
Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
Produced by:
Screenplay by:
Victor/Victoria
Victor/Victoria is a television film of the 1995 Broadway show of the same name. It was written and directed by Blake Edwards based on Edwards' 1982 film of the same name.
Initial release date:
- 1995
Runtime:
- 146 min (87.6 hs )
