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).
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Movies (19)

The Capote Tapes
2021 · Self (voice) (archive footage)

Sept ans de réflexion
2021 · Author

El embajador del miedo
2004 · Original Film Writer

The Fourth Protocol
1987 · Screenstory

The Holcroft Covenant
1985 · Screenplay

The Lady Vanishes
1979 · Screenplay

The Secret Life of an American Wife
1968 · Director, Screenplay, Producer

Lord Love a Duck
1966 · Director, Writer, Producer

How to Murder Your Wife
1965 · Producer, Writer

Goodbye Charlie
1964 · Theatre Play

Paris When It Sizzles
1964 · Screenplay, Producer

The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · Screenplay, Producer

Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961 · Screenplay

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!
1958 · Screenplay

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
1957 · Theatre Play

Bus Stop
1956 · Screenplay

The Seven Year Itch
1955 · Screenplay, Theatre Play

Phffft
1954 · Story, Screenplay

Confessions of a Nervous Man
1953 · Self - Host, Writer



