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).
Release Date1962-10-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
Release Date1950-02-02
Charactersd Self - Panelist
Episode Count1
Vote Count27
A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.
Release Date2021-09-10
Charactersd Self (voice) (archive footage)
Vote Count8
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Release Date1961-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4378
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend as a base operation for enacting sweet revenge.
Release Date1964-11-18
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count27
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bachelor's life. The beautiful but ditzy blonde from the apartment above catches his eye and they soon start spending time together—maybe a little too much time!
Release Date1955-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count944
Cowboys Beauregard Decker and Virgil Blessing attend a rodeo in Phoenix, where Decker falls in love with beautiful cafe singer Cherie. He wants to take Cherie back to his native Montana and marry her, but she dreams of traveling to Hollywood and becoming famous. When she resists his advances, Decker forces Cherie onto the bus back to Montana with him, but, when the bus makes an unscheduled stop due to bad weather, the tables are turned.
Release Date1956-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count228
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
Release Date1979-04-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count67
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.
Release Date1962-10-24
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count767
A sweltering July evening on a Manhattan balcony. A cast-iron flowerpot shatters the chair Richard Sherman had been sitting in just seconds before. His upstairs neighbor has accidentally knocked over her tomato plant. This incident, which could have been fatal for Richard, turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to him.
Release Date2021-05-31
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Vote Count2
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.
Release Date1964-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count189
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
Release Date1985-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count89
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
Release Date1965-01-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count140
Robert and Nina Tracey resolve to live separate lives when their eight-year marriage dissolves into disagreements and divorce. But their separate attempts to get back out on the dating scene have a funny way of bringing them together.
Release Date1954-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count36
Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
Release Date1987-03-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenstory
Vote Count191
Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community.
Release Date1958-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count25
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.
Release Date1966-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count27
A short-lived (4 episodes) series about a rich heiress who wants nothing more to do than spend money. But her Uncle Simon's keeping a tight hand on the wallet. Her twin brother Terrence and her housekeeper Mrs Ratchett are also an irritation to Tammy.
Release Date1966-09-08
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
To save his career, an ad man wants a sex symbol to endorse a lipstick but in exchange, she wants him to pretend to be her lover.
Release Date1957-07-29
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count73
A bored housewife poses as a call girl for a movie star sex-symbol, hoping she can prove to her husband, the star's agent, that she is still desirable to other men and thereby, rekindle the spark in their marriage.
Release Date1968-06-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
