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FILM DIRECTOR

Blake Edwards

1922 - 2010

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Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio scripts before turning to producing and directing in television and films. His best-known films include Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), A Shot in the Dark (1964), The Great Race (1965), 10 (1979), Victor/Victoria (1982), Blind Date (1987), and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with British actor Peter Sellers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Blake Edwards has received more than 4,844,800 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Blake Edwards is the 142nd most popular film director (up from 171st in 2019), the 981st most popular biography from United States (up from 1,113th in 2019) and the 40th most popular American Film Director.

Blake Edwards is most famous for directing Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was a 1961 American romantic comedy film.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Blake Edwards ranks 142 out of 1,581. Before him are Andrei Konchalovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Kim Ki-duk, Josef von Sternberg, Joel Schumacher, and Lasse Hallström. After him are Jacques Demy, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Wong Kar-wai, Victor Sjöström, Abel Gance, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Blake Edwards ranks 46. Before him are Jason Robards, Liliane Bettencourt, Agostinho Neto, Nikolay Basov, Nils Liedholm, and Michel Galabru. After him are Ahmed Sékou Touré, Julius Nyerere, Robert W. Holley, Ademir de Menezes, Juan Antonio Villacañas, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Among people deceased in 2010, Blake Edwards ranks 28. Before him are Jean Simmons, Vasily Smyslov, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Dino De Laurentiis, Miep Gies, and Francesco Cossiga. After him are Néstor Kirchner, Algirdas Brazauskas, Paul Schäfer, Louise Bourgeois, Bruno Cremer, and Henryk Górecki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Blake Edwards ranks 981 out of 18,182. Before him are James Horner (1953), Gena Rowlands (1930), Barbara Bush (1925), Paul Berg (1926), Robert A. Dahl (1915), and Benjamin Guggenheim (1865). After him are Charles Cooley (1864), Dave Brubeck (1920), Matt Groening (1954), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), L. Frank Baum (1856), and George Dantzig (1914).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Blake Edwards ranks 40. Before him are Peter Bogdanovich (1939), Michael Mann (1943), Michael Cimino (1939), Mel Brooks (1926), D. W. Griffith (1875), and Joel Schumacher (1939). After him are Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), Ed Wood (1924), Robert Wise (1914), William Friedkin (1935), Jonathan Demme (1944), and Kathryn Bigelow (1951).

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Filmography

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