Blake Edwards - biography

“Nothing matters but the facts.  Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.”

“I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office.”

“A miserable newspaper woman wrote something implying that Rock [Hudson] and I spent a lot of time together in San Francisco leather bars.  I loved his response: ‘How in the hell did she find out so quick?’”

“There’s so few people in this town with a conscience.”

“Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.”

“Before I met Julie [Andrews], some people were conjecturing about her success.  I said: I can tell you what that is.  She has lilacs for pubic hair.”

“Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.”

“Don’t just stand there, idiot.  Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.”

“If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside.  Those are new sheets.”

“It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.”

Blake Edwards has appeared in the following films:
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
A Guy Named Joe (1943)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Ladies Courageous (1944)
Marine Raiders (1944)
The Eve of St. Mark (1944)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
They Were Expendable (1945)
This Man’s Navy (1945)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Till the End of Time (1946)
Panhandle (1948)


Blake Edwards directed the following films:
Mister Cory (1957)
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
This Happy Feeling (1958)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
High Time (1960)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Experiment in Terror (1962)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
The Great Race (1965)
The Party (1968)
Darling Lili (1970)
Wild Rovers (1971)
The Carey Treatment (1972)
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
10 (1979)
S.O.B. (1981)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Victor Victoria (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
Micki + Maude (1984)
That’s Life! (1986)
Blind Date (1987)
Sunset (1988)
Switch (1991)


Blake Edwards contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Panhandle (1948)
Stampede (1949)
All Ashore (1953)
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
The Atomic Kid (1954)
My Sister Eileen (1955)
Mister Cory (1957)
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
This Happy Feeling (1958)
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Soldier in the Rain (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
The Great Race (1965)
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
The Party (1968)
Darling Lili (1970)
Wild Rovers (1971)
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
10 (1979)
S.O.B. (1981)
Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Victor Victoria (1982)
Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
The Man Who Loved Women (1983)
City Heat (1984)
That’s Life! (1986)
Sunset (1988)
Switch (1991)
The Pink Panther (2006)
The Pink Panther 2 (2009)