George Axelrod

George Axelrod (June 9, 1922 – June 21, 2003) was an American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and also adapted Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1962).

Cast

The Capote Tapes
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Confessions of a Nervous Man
Self - Host

Crew

Breakfast at Tiffany's
Screenplay
The Manchurian Candidate
Screenplay, Producer
The Seven Year Itch
Screenplay
Paris When It Sizzles
Screenplay, Producer
Bus Stop
Screenplay
How to Murder Your Wife
Producer, Writer
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Theatre Play
Lord Love a Duck
Director, Writer, Producer
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
Screenplay
Sept ans de réflexion
Author
The Secret Life of an American Wife
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Phffft
Story, Screenplay
The Lady Vanishes
Screenplay
The Fourth Protocol
Screenstory
The Holcroft Covenant
Screenplay
Goodbye Charlie
Theatre Play
Confessions of a Nervous Man
Writer