Writer-director Blake Edwards, who immortalised such cinematic legends as the ‘Pink Panther’, has died at the age of 88.
Edwards died Wednesday night due to complications from pneumonia at the Saint Johns Hospital in Santa Monica, California, according to a family statement.
Edwards, who was married to the actress Julie Andrews for 41 years, was best known as the director and writer of the ‘Pink Panther’, the midlife crisis comedy 10, and also of classics ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ and ‘Days of Wine and Roses’.
He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 26, 1922. He and his first wife Patricia had a daughter, Jennifer, and a son, Geoffrey. In 1969, he married Andrews. They adopted two Vietnamese orphans, Amy Leigh and Joanna Lynn.
Edwards had been an unsuccessful movie actor before transitioning into writing, first for radio and then for television and film with his first success coming in the Peter Gunn detective TV series in 1958.
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