Blake Edwards

William Blake Crump, known as Blake Edwards, was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1922; his stepfather was a production manager, and the latter's father a silent-film director. He acted in films in the forties, served in the Coast Guard, wrote screenplays and radio serials, and directed from 1955. He made some forty feature films, worked with the composer Henry Mancini from 1958 until 1994, and was married for forty-one years to Julie Andrews. He died in California in 2010.

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• CinemaBreakfast at Tiffany'sBlake Edwards · 1961Cinema