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Blake Edwards
Director 1922 - 2010

Blake Edwards

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures. He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with some of his best films... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

30 titles
Son of the Pink Panther

Son of the Pink Panther

Blake Edwards 1993 1h 33m 2.7

The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.

Switch

Switch

Blake Edwards 1991 1h 44m 6.2

A sexist womanizer is killed by one of his former lovers and then reincarnated as a woman.

Skin Deep

Skin Deep

Blake Edwards 1989 1h 37m 5.7

A womanizing alcoholic writer, whose life seems to be falling apart at the seams, repeatedly finds himself in trouble of one sort or another with the law, ex-girlfriends, and jealous boyfriends.

Sunset

Sunset

Blake Edwards 1988 1h 47m

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Blind Date

Blind Date

Blake Edwards 1987 1h 35m 5.5

Blind Date is a romantic comedy by star director Blake Edwards starring Kim Basinger as a boozer and Bruce Willis as a rich bachelor.

That's Life!

That's Life!

Blake Edwards 1986 1h 42m

A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.

The Man Who Loved Women

The Man Who Loved Women

Blake Edwards 1983 1h 50m 3.0

1983 Burt Reynolds version -- This is the tale of a sculptor named David who has a major womanizing problem. He goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women. His story of sexual and romantic exploits with the ladies is told by Marianna.

Curse of the Pink Panther

Curse of the Pink Panther

Blake Edwards 1983 1h 49m 4.0

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh.

Victor Victoria

Victor Victoria

Blake Edwards 1982 2h 14m 7.8

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Trail of the Pink Panther

Trail of the Pink Panther

Blake Edwards 1982 1h 36m 5.2

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.

S.O.B.

S.O.B.

Blake Edwards 1981 2h 1m 7.0

Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) latest movie flops - and lots of Hollywood types spring into action. Agents are called. Lawyers are retained. Statements are issued. It's what a master comedy director Blake Edwards calls "Standard Operating Bull," the subject of his gleefully satiric S.O.B.

10

10

Blake Edwards 1979 2h 2m 5.3

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Revenge of the Pink Panther

Blake Edwards 1978 1h 39m 7.2

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world (and Charles Dreyfus) believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Jacques Clouseau knows differently, and taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Blake Edwards 1976 1h 43m 8.0

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

The Return of the Pink Panther

The Return of the Pink Panther

Blake Edwards 1975 1h 53m 7.4

That famous jewel, The Pink Panther, has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources - himself and his oriental manservant - to reveal the true identity of 'The Phantom'.

The Tamarind Seed

The Tamarind Seed

Blake Edwards 1974 2h 5m 6.7

During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

Wild Rovers

Wild Rovers

Blake Edwards 1971 2h 16m 7.0

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows.

Darling Lili

Darling Lili

Blake Edwards 1970 2h 23m 3.5

World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace singing rallying patriotic songs.

The Party

The Party

Blake Edwards 1968 1h 39m 7.8

A clerical mistake results in a bumbling film extra being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired.

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Blake Edwards 1966 1h 56m 6.0

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in.

The Great Race

The Great Race

Blake Edwards 1965 2h 40m 7.8

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

Blake Edwards 1964 1h 42m 7.1

A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.

The Pink Panther

The Pink Panther

Blake Edwards 1963 1h 55m 7.9

The Pink Panther is the first film from The Pink Panther series that was put together using both animated as well as filmed sequences. Starring Peter Sellers this film from director Blake Edwards is now a cult classic.

Experiment in Terror

Experiment in Terror

Blake Edwards 1962 2h 3m 7.6

Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent Ripley.

Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses

Blake Edwards 1962 1h 57m 7.7

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Blake Edwards 1961 1h 55m 8.3

fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing Holly's past.

High Time

High Time

Blake Edwards 1960 1h 43m 6.0

Despite the dissapproval of his grown son and daughter, 51 year old widdower and wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard (Bing Crosby) decides it's 'high time' to he gets his college degree. And he's in for the full ride: living in the dorms, joing a fraternity, falling in love, and even getting some studying in.

Operation Petticoat

Operation Petticoat

Blake Edwards 1959 2h 4m 6.5

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

This Happy Feeling

This Happy Feeling

Blake Edwards 1958 1h 32m 6.0

On a stormy night, young woman asks another guest at party to rescue her from her lecherous boss and take her to the train station. After her rescuer suggests that she stop at his place to get out of her wet clothes, she dashes from his car. The door she knocks on for help is the home of a retired actor and there she spends the rest of the night.

The Perfect Furlough

The Perfect Furlough

Blake Edwards 1958 1h 33m 6.0

A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsense military psychologist is ordered to accompany him as chaperone to keep him out of trouble.

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