Blake Edwards, director of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and "The Pink Panther", dies at 88 (1 Viewer)

[Adam Lenhardt]

RIP

A list of films he directed:


1993 Son of the Pink Panther

1991 Switch

1989 Skin Deep

1988 Sunset

1987 Blind Date

1986 That's Life!

1986 A Fine Mess

1984 Micki + Maude

1983 The Man Who Loved Women

1983 Curse of the Pink Panther

1982 Trail of the Pink Panther

1982 Victor Victoria

1981 S.O.B.

1979 10

1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther

1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again

1975 The Return of the Pink Panther

1974 The Tamarind Seed

1972 The Carey Treatment

1971 Wild Rovers

1970 Darling Lili

1968 The Party

1967 Gunn

1966 What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

1965 The Great Race

1964 A Shot in the Dark

1963 The Pink Panther

1962 Days of Wine and Roses

1962 Experiment in Terror

1961 Breakfast at Tiffany's

1960 High Time

1959 Operation Petticoat

1958 The Perfect Furlough

1958 This Happy Feeling

1957 Mister Cory

1956 He Laughed Last

1955 Bring Your Smile Along

 

[Edwin-S]

Some great films in that list....well.....maybe not TEN, but lots of others.


R.I.P


Edit: I've always liked Operation Petticoat and The Party was pretty good as well. Of course, one can't forget his Pink Panther films, not all of them were great but there were some pretty good ones.

 

[Ruz-El]

Not my favorite director, but I always loved "The Party".

 

[Marko Berg]

Rest in peace, Mr. Edwards.

 

[Steve Christou]

Out of all his films I've always had a fondness for the first Pink Panther and A Shot in the Dark wasn't much of a fan of his later films.


R.I.P.

 

[Henry Gale]

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-blake-edwards-20101217,0,5648848.story

 

[Patrick H.]

Sad news, although 88 is certainly a good run. 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is absolutely on my personal list of classics, but my favorite will always be 'A Shot in the Dark.' I enjoy most of his Clouseau comedies with Peter Sellers, but that one towers over the rest as one of the funnier films I've ever seen. While Sellers was alive, that franchise was the comedy equivalent of the the James Bond series...a formula that always generated results. It's just too bad they kept trying to keep it going after Sellers was gone, though. But...regardless, three straight decades with memorable films, plus a long and stable marriage to another movie icon in Ms. Andrews, is one terrific life. Godspeed, Mr. Edwards.

 

[Charles Smith]

The more I think about this today, the more I want to watch some of my favorites, and for most of these it's been years: Breakfast at Tiffany's, Experiment in Terror, Panther/Shot, The Great Race, Victor Victoria, and even S.O.B. which I went to when new and didn't find all that compelling then, but I'm ready to give that one a fair shake now. And I don't have a one of 'em here. Well, that will be remedied. R.I.P., good man.

 

[MatthewA]

It's always sad when someone with such a long and distinguished career leaves us. He seems to be rather underrated by younger film fans and, to some extent, dismissed by auteur theorists, but certainly the director of such genuinely great films as Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Days of Wine and Roses, The Pink Panther series, and Victor/Victoria, and even films of his I felt were underrated such as The Great Race, The Party, S.O.B., and Micki + Maude, deserves to be remembered highly. Not to mention his close association with Henry Mancini. And, of course, he singlehandedly revived Julie Andrews' film career.

 

[Charles Smith]

Yes, all of that. Too bad "auteur" doesn't generally apply to those who are genius when it comes to sophisticated comedy and farce. And the Mancini collaboration is especially noteworthy, as important in its way as Hitchcock/Herrmann.