Born William Blake McEdwards within Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of the stage director. He was originally an actor and script-writer (seven Richard Quine film scripts).

His virtually all popular films use been comedies, a alcoholism-themed melodrama Days of Wine and Roses being a notable exception. His virtually all profitable collaboration has been sustaining Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther movies. Efforts to revive a Panther franchise fallowing a dying of Sellers met by using little critical or even commercial profits.

Around 2004 he received an Academy Honorary Award for cumulative accomplishment across a course of his film career. He was as well portrayed by John Lithgow in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, documenting comic actor Sellers' life & his friendly relationship sustaining Edwards.

His 2nd married woman (from either 1969) is Julie Andrews, who has appeared inside the total of his films including Darling Lili, 10, Victor/Victoria and the autobiographical satire S.O.B., in which Andrews played a character very similar to herself.

Filmography

Bring Your Smile Along (1955) He Laughed Last (1956) Mister Cory (1957) This Happy Feeling (1958) Operation Petticoat (1959) High Time (1959) Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Experiment in Terror (1962) The Grip of Fear (1962) Days of Wine and Roses (1963) The Pink Panther (1964) A Shot in the Dark (1964) The Great Race (1965) What Did you Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) Gunn (1967) The Party (1968) Darling Lili (1969) Wild Rovers (1971) The Carey Treatment (1972) The Tamarind Seed (1974) The Return of the Pink Panther (1974) The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) The 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 and Maude (1984) A Fine Mess (1986), That's Life (1986) Blind Date (1987) Sunset (1988) Skin Deep (1989) Switch (1991) Son of the Pink Panther (1993)