Robert Edwards
Robert Edwards was an infantry and intelligence officer in the US Army, serving in Germany during the Cold War and in a parachute infantry regiment in Iraq during the first Gulf war. He holds an MA in communications from Stanford and a BA in history from Lafayette College. He has also been a nightclub doorman, a private eye, and a substandard guitar player in a rock band. A winner of the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he has written numerous...See more
Robert Edwards was an infantry and intelligence officer in the US Army, serving in Germany during the Cold War and in a parachute infantry regiment in Iraq during the first Gulf war. He holds an MA in communications from Stanford and a BA in history from Lafayette College. He has also been a nightclub doorman, a private eye, and a substandard guitar player in a rock band. A winner of the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he has written numerous screenplays for all the major studios, directed the feature films Land of the Blind starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland, and When I Live My Life Over Again (aka One More Time ) starring Christopher Walken, and produced the documentaries Sumo East and West and The Last Laugh with his wife Ferne Pearlstein. He writes The King's Necktie blog on politics. See less