Blake Edwards Filmography

Born:: July 26, 1922 in Tulsa, OK
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: William Blake McEdwards
Biography:: American filmmaker Blake Edwards was the grandson of J. Gordon Edwards, director of such silent film epics as The Queen of Sheba (1922). Blake started his own film career as an actor in 1943; he played bits in A-movies and leads in B-movies, paying his dues in such trivialities as Gangs of the Waterfront...Read More

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Victor/Victoria

Crew: Stage Director

Actors: Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts, Michael Nouri, Rachel York

Synopsis: This filmed stage production of Victor/Victoria came to be through the collaboration of director Blake Edwards and his wife, singer and actress Julie Andrews. Andrews reprises her role as a female pretending to be a male who is impersonating a female, while Edwards once again directs. As with the Read More

1999
Son of the Pink Panther

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Herbert Lom, Claudia Cardinale, Debrah Farentino, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: After the death of Peter Sellers in 1980, writer/director Blake Edwards assembled a new "Pink Panther" film from outtakes of Sellers as Inspector Clouseau from previous movies in the series (the result was called The Trail of the Pink Panther) and later made two attempts to revive the series with Read More

1993
Switch

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Perry King, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: Ellen Barkin stars in this mystical comedy about a detestable male chauvinist temporarily reincarnated into the body of a woman. Steve Brooks (Perry King) foolishly accepts an invite for an evening of debauchery from three former girlfriends, and thinks he's got it made when he shows up to find Read More

5/10/91
Skin Deep

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Ritter, Vincent Gardenia, Alyson Reed, Joel Brooks, Julianne Phillips

Synopsis: Blake Edwards, mining the same territory as in his 10, Micki and Maude, The Man Who Loved Women, and That's Life, (not to mention Blind Date), once again deals with male mid-life menopausal angst. Zach (John Ritter) is a novelist suffering from writer's block, spiraling downward in a sea of women Read More

3/3/89
Peter Gunn

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Jurasik, Peter Strauss, Pearl Bailey, Barbara Williams, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Peter Gunn was a one-shot TV movie revival of the classic detective series (1958-61) created by Blake Edwards. Edwards wrote and directed this pilot for a potential Gunn revival, with Peter Strauss stepping into Craig Stevens' gumshoes as private eye Peter Gunn. Peter Jurasik assumes Herschel Bernardi's Read More

1989
Sunset

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star Tom Mix Read More

4/29/88
Justin Case

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this kooky, spooky comedy, a dead private detective comes back from the Great Beyond to investigate his own death. He enlists the aid of an unemployed actress. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Blind Date

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Joyce Van Patten, Kim Basinger, Bruce Willis, John Larroquette, William Daniels, Phil Hartman, George Coe

Synopsis: When speaking of Laurel and Hardy's first feature film Pardon Us, Stan Laurel described it as "a three-story building on a one-story base"-in other words, a 2-reeler stretched and bloated into 6 reels. Much the same could be said of Blake Edwards's Blind Date, though one wonders if Stan Laurel Read More

3/27/87
That's Life!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Julie Andrews, Sally Kellerman, Robert Loggia, Jennifer Edwards

Synopsis: Blake Edwards co-wrote and directed this seriocomedy about a couple of rich and famous Malibuans forced to re-examine their lives and values during a weekend party celebrating the husband's 60th birthday. Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews star as Harvey and Gillian Fairchild. Harvey is a successful Read More

9/26/86
A Fine Mess

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ted Danson, Howie Mandel, Richard Mulligan, Stuart Margolin, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Blake Edwards comes a cropper in this lunk-headed slapstick homage to Laurel and Hardy, Mack Sennett, and Jerry Lewis. Ted Danson and Howie Mandell play Spence Holden and Dennis Powell, a couple of idiots who find themselves involved with a pack of gangsters. Spence is a two-bit actor who is at a Read More

8/9/86
Micki + Maude

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dudley Moore, Amy Irving, Richard Mulligan, Ann Reinking, George Gaynes, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Micki (Ann Reinking) is the wife of Rob (Dudley Moore), an airheaded TV talk show host. Maude (Amy Irving) is an attractive musician who is unaware of Micki's existence, and with whom Rob falls in love. Rob is a guy who can't say no, thus when Maude announces that she's pregnant, Rob obligingly Read More

1984
The Man Who Loved Women

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Marilu Henner, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: This remake of François Truffaut's 1977 comedy misses out on Truffaut's subtext that delves into the nature of love and instead simply recounts the sexual and romantic exploits of David, a sculptor who is an incurable womanizer (Burt Reynolds). In order to come to grips with his obsession for Read More

1983
Curse of the Pink Panther

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ted Wass, David Niven, Robert Wagner, Herbert Lom, Joanna Lumley, Capucine

Synopsis: Curse of the Pink Panther was released just after Trail of the Pink Panther with a script that has someone looking for the inept Inspector Clousseau and the fabulous stolen Pink Panther diamond at the same time. In Curse, Clifton Sleigh (Ted Wass) is a New York retread of the bumbling Inspector Read More

1983
The Trail of the Pink Panther

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Two years after the death of Peter Sellers, Blake Edwards tried to exhume his corpse in this pastiche of clips and out-takes from the old Pink Panther films. The plot concerns the legendary "Pink Panther" diamond which is once more stolen. Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) is again enlisted to Read More

1982
Victor/Victoria

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras

Synopsis: On the verge of starvation in 1930s Paris, erstwhile entertainer Victoria (Julie Andrews) is rescued by gay cabaret performer Toddy (Robert Preston). What she needs to succeed, opines Toddy, is a gimmick. What if she becomes a male impersonator? Better still: what if she becomes a male Read More

1982
S.O.B.

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director whose career is on the skids. Having just completed a family musical that is sure to be a $30 million flop, Felix knows that his days are numbered Read More

1981
10

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek, Robert Webber, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: Blake Edwards' 10 stars Dudley Moore as George, a Mancini-type songwriter. Approaching middle age, George feels as if life is passing him by, especially his sex life. Despite the presence of longtime lady friend Sam (Julie Andrews) in his life, he becomes obsessed from afar with Jenny (Bo Derek) Read More

1979
The Revenge of the Pink Panther

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Dyan Cannon, Robert Webber, Burt Kwouk

Synopsis: In Revenge of the Pink Panther, for the final time, the bumbling but impeturbable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) maddens his long-suffering boss Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), sharpens his wits and martial skills with his manservant Cato (Burt Kwouk) and foils the bad guys without ever having a clue Read More

1978
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Leonard Rossiter, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback" films of the 1970s. Driven insane by the stupidities of Clouseau (Peter Sellers), ex-inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) transforms into a master criminal. Kidnapping the Read More

1976
The Return of the Pink Panther

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne

Synopsis: After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the Pink Panther. It looks as though wizard cat-burglar Sir Charles Litton, played by David Niven in the original 1964 Pink Panther but here essayed by Christopher Plummer Read More

1975
The Tamarind Seed

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Dan O'Herlihy, Sylvia Syms

Synopsis: Blake Edwards's stylish direction bolsters this Cold War romance starring Julie Andrews and Omar Sharif. Andrews plays Judith Farrow, a British civil service functionary who meets dashing Russian agent Feodor Sverdlov (Omar Sharif) under the romantic skies of the Caribbean. The Caribbean breezes Read More

1974
The Carey Treatment

Crew: Director

Actors: Robie Porter, Melissa Torme-March, James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle, Skye Aubrey, Elizabeth Allen

Synopsis: Blake Edwards directed this murder mystery set against the backdrop of a busy metropolitan hospital. Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who has signed on to work with Dr. J.D. Randall (Dan O'Herlihy) at a prominent hospital in Boston. When Randall's daughter Karen (Melissa Read More

1972
The Wild Rovers

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's chair, we submit for your approval Wild Rovers. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a couple of shiftless ranch hands who impulsively decide to rob a bank. They manage to Read More

1971
Darling Lili

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Mike Witney

Synopsis: Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted World War I musical. Lili Smith (Andrews) is a popular British music hall singer who is regarded as a femme fatale and has been known to throw a bit of striptease into her act. However, Lili has a secret Read More

1970
The Monk

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The Monk stars George Maharis as neither simian nor seminarian. Instead, he plays Gustavus "Gus" Monk, a San Francisco private eye/bodyguard created by Blake Edwards. The Monk is hired by an underworld lawyer (William Smithers) to deliver an envelope containing damning information about a powerful Read More

1969
The Party

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion, Steve Franken, Fay McKenzie, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself in Hollywood movies. However, Bakshi quickly Read More

1968
Waterhole #3

Crew: Producer

Actors: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Maggie Blye, Claude Akins, Timothy Carey

Synopsis: "A rootin', tootin', but sincere picture" was the advertising tag for the comedy western Waterhole No. 3. James Coburn plays the likeably amoral hero, who'll go to any lengths to get his mitts on a treasure map. Like his principal rival, renegade confederate cavalryman Claude Akins, Coburn knows Read More

1967
Gunn

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Ed Asner, Albert Paulsen, Sherry Jackson

Synopsis: Blake Edwards directed this big-screen adaptation of the once-popular TV detective series Peter Gunn, which Edwards helped create. Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) is a tough but polished private eye who fights crime with the help of friendly advice from an inside source at the police department, Lt. Read More

1967
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: James Coburn, Dick Shawn, Sergio Fantoni, Aldo Ray, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: In this service comedy set during World War II, Capt. Cash (Dick Shawn) and Lt. Christian (James Coburn) are given orders to invade a small but strategically important village in Sicily. To their surprise, none of the natives offer the slightest resistance to the Americans taking over their town Read More

1966
The Great Race

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as The Great Leslie, a hero among heroes whose purity of heart is manifested by his spotlessly white wardrobe. Leslie's great rival, played by Jack Lemmon, is Professor Fate, a scowling, mustachioed, top-hatted, black-garbed villain. Long envious of Leslie's record-setting Read More

1965
The Pink Panther

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: In the first in a series of detective comedies from director Blake Edwards starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau, the mishap-prone snoop is actually a supporting player. David Niven stars as Sir Charles Litton, a suave jewel thief known as "The Phantom." Vacationing Read More

1964
A Shot in the Dark

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, George Sanders, Tracy Reed, Graham Stark

Synopsis: A murder has been committed at the palatial Parisian residence of Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders). All the evidence points to sexy, wide-eyed housemaid Maria Gambrelli (Elke Sommer). Police inspector Dreyfuss (Herbert Lom) is prepared to make an arrest -- and then the gloriously, monumentally Read More

1964
Soldier in the Rain

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston

Synopsis: The unlikely duo of Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason star in this military comedy-drama. Gleason is Master Sergeant Max Slaughter, a corpulent man perfectly content with his solitary life in the Army, where his room and board are paid for and free sodas are his for the taking. His comrade, the Read More

1963
Days of Wine and Roses

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed Read More

1962
Experiment in Terror

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole, Ned Glass, Ross Martin

Synopsis: Bank teller Lee Remick is accosted in her garage one dark night by asthmatic psycho Ross Martin. He forces her to go through with an elaborate robbery scheme, threatening to kill Lee's teen-aged sister Stefanie Powers if the police are summoned. FBI agent Glenn Ford suspects that something is Read More

1962
The Notorious Landlady

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Fred Astaire, Lionel Jeffries, Estelle Winwood

Synopsis: This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inadvertently gets caught up in a jewel theft and mayhem. After William lands in London to take up his new position and get settled in his new digs, he becomes Read More

1962
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Crew: Director

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: In an idealized New York City during the early '60s, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) is a charming socialite with a youthful zest for life who lives alone in a nearly bare apartment. She has such a flippant lifestyle that she won't even give her cat a name, because that would be too much of a Read More

1961
High Time

Crew: Director

Actors: Bing Crosby, Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Nicole Maurey, Richard Beymer, Patrick Adiarte

Synopsis: Bing Crosby plays a widowed millionaire who decides that it's "high time" he got himself a college education. Enrolling as a freshman, Crosby is forced to endure the anachronistic initiation stunts dreamed up by his fraternity buddies, and at one point is required to dress up as Scarlett O'Hara Read More

1960
Operation Petticoat

Crew: Director

Actors: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans

Synopsis: Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces about his time as the first commander of the boat, in 1941. Three days after Pearl Harbor, the sub is damaged during an enemy air raid in the Philippines; rather than Read More

1959
Peter Gunn: The Comic

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this volume of episodes from the stylish and exciting television detective series from the late '50s, the suave and sexy detective Gunn solves two puzzling cases: "The Comic" and "Streetcar Jones." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1959
This Happy Feeling

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor

Synopsis: This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who develops a crush on retired stage star Preston Mitchell (Curt Jurgens). Rejuvenated by Janet's ardor, Mitchell decides to return to the stage, where he must contend with Read More

1958
Peter Gunn: The Torch

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this volume of episodes from the stylish and exciting television detective series from the late '50s, the suave and sexy detective Gunn solves two puzzling cases: "The Torch" and "Keep Smiling." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
The Perfect Furlough

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Linda Cristal, Keenan Wynn, Elaine Stritch

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle weary men and convinces the brass to let her try it on selected men stationed at her base. According to her plan, selected men would be given three weeks, tailor made to fit Read More

1958
Peter Gunn: Lynn's Blues

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this volume of episodes from the stylish and exciting television detective series from the late '50s, the suave and sexy detective Gunn solves two puzzling cases: "Lyn''s Blues" and "Take Five for Murder." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
Peter Gunn: Rough Buck

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this volume of episodes from the stylish and exciting television detective series from the late '50s, the suave and sexy detective Gunn solves two puzzling cases: "Rough Buck" and "The Chinese Hangman." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
Peter Gunn: Death House Testament

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this volume of episodes from the stylish and exciting television detective series from the late '50s, the suave and sexy detective Gunn solves two puzzling cases: "Death House Testament" and "Skin Deep." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1958
Operation Mad Ball

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Kathryn Grant, Ernie Kovacs, Mickey Rooney, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: In this frantic service comedy, a group of bored-to-tears American GI's stationed at a medical facility in France would like nothing more than to have a big party to let off steam -- except for the possibility of having a big party with some of the nurses they work with. However, it seems that the Read More

1957
Mister Cory

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Mister Cory represented the first of several successful collaborations between star Tony Curtis and director Blake Edwards. Adapted from a story by Leo Rosten, the story details the rise of Mr. Cory (Curtis) from summer-resort busboy to high-stakes gambler. Along the way, Cory uses several close Read More

1957
He Laughed Last

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Frankie Laine, Lucy Marlow, Anthony Dexter, Dick Long, Alan Reed, Sr.

Synopsis: In this amiable imitation Guys and Dolls, Alan Reed plays a big-time 1920s gangster who is rubbed out by his enemies. In his will, Reed bequeaths his nightclub to chorus girl Lucy Marlow--which doesn't sit too well with Lucy's policeman boyfriend (Richard Long). Frankie Laine plays the Read More

1956
Bring Your Smile Along

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Frankie Laine, Keefe Brasselle, Constance Towers, Lucy Marlow, William Leslie

Synopsis: Blake Edwards made his directorial debut in the bubbly musical comedy Bring Your Smile Along. The story, written by Edwards and his longtime associate-mentor Richard Quine, gets under way when New England schoolmarm Nancy Willows (Constance Towers) heads to New York, there to try her luck as a Read More

1955
My Sister Eileen

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett, Bob Fosse, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: My Sister Eileen is a Technicolor, musicalized remake of the 1942 comedy of the same name. It is not, however, the film version of the 1949 Broadway musical Wonderful Town, which was also based on the 1942 film. Adapted from the short stories of Ruth McKinney, the film stars Betty Garrett as Read More

1955
Drive a Crooked Road

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Kelly, Harry Landers

Synopsis: Auto mechanic and wannabe race-car driver Eddie Shannon (Mickey Rooney) allows himself to be led perilously astray in Drive a Crooked Road. Responding to the come-hither looks of sexy Barbara Mathews (Dianne Foster), Eddie is inveigled into participating in a bank heist. Things then go from bad to Read More

1954
Cruisin' Down the River

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dick Haymes, Audrey Totter, Billy Daniels, Cecil Kellaway, Connie Russell

Synopsis: A Big Apple nightclub singer inherits a riverboat from his late grandfather and learns, via flashback, the interesting story of how his granddaddy acquired the craft. When he won a bet during a fight over possession of the boat, the crafty old gambler not only acquired the riverboat but also the Read More

1953
All Ashore

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes, Peggy Ryan, Ray McDonald, Barbara Bates

Synopsis: Co-written by director Richard Quine and Blake Edwards, All Ashore has so many excellent individual components that one wishes the sum total was better than it is. Mickey Rooney, Dick Haymes and Ray McDonald play a trio of eternally broke sailors, on shore leave at Catalina Island. Because of his Read More

1953
Sound Off

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Anne James, Sammy White,