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Blake Edwards
Writer 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 →

Filmography

Every title this person wrote

28 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 5.5

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.

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.

City Heat

City Heat

Richard Benjamin 1984 1h 37m 4.8

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.

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 8.0

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 7.5

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 7.0

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 2.0

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 7.9

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.

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

Blake Edwards 1964 1h 42m 7.2

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.

The Notorious Landlady

The Notorious Landlady

Richard Quine 1962 2h 3m 7.0

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn

1958 30m

Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Mad Ball

Richard Quine 1957 1h 45m

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.

My Sister Eileen

My Sister Eileen

Richard Quine 1955 1h 48m

After submitting a story of her beautiful sister, a woman assumes her identity to maintain the attention of a playboy publisher.

The Atomic Kid

The Atomic Kid

Leslie H. Martinson 1954 1h 26m 5.0

A uranium prospector is eating a peanut butter sandwich in the desert where atom bomb tests are being done. He becomes radioactive, and helps the FBI break up an enemy spy ring.

Drive a Crooked Road

Drive a Crooked Road

Richard Quine 1954 1h 23m 7.0

A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster's girlfriend.

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