I love the Pink Panther films and I am saddened by his loss as I remember side splitting laughter
watching Peter Sellers as Chief Inspector Clouseau. Peter Sellers was also one of the original Goons
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"Pink Panther" director Blake Edwards dies at 88 Film and television writer/director Blake Edwards, whose career spanned more than six decades and included "The Pink Panther" movies, has died from complications of pneumonia at age 88.
A spokesman for his wife Julie Andrews said Edwards died on Wednesday night at St. John's Health Centre in Santa Monica with Andrews and immediate family members by his side.
Show business newspaper Daily Variety said Edwards died on Thursday morning.
Edwards was a major Hollywood player in the 1960s. His work as a director during that decade included the classic "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with Audrey Hepburn, and "Days of Wine and Roses" with Jack Lemmon.
His original "Pink Panther" in 1963 helped make a huge star out of a young Peter Sellers, and cemented Edwards' own fame as a director with a keen eye for cutting edge humour and satire.
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