Ken Wales

      Ken Wales got his start through an internship with Walt Disney. His undergraduate education was from USC in film and he has a M.A. from UCLA He is a gifted writer and storyteller. During his 15-year association with director Blake Edwards, Ken produced many films including The Tamarind Seed and Wild Rovers and associate/line-produced numerous films including Darling Lili, starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson; The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, and The Party, and Revenge of the Pink Panther, both starring Peter Sellers. Because of a friendship developed while working together Blake Edwards asked Ken to be his best man when he married Julie Andrews. Ken produced The Prodigal for Billy Graham and the influential CBS show, Christy. In TV, Wales co-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe winner, John Steinbeck's, East of Eden, and associate produced the first season of Cagney and Lacy. Currently, Ken is producing the upcoming feature, Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilberforce, the great Christian reformer that changed the world--directed by Michael Apted and starring loan Gruffudd and Albert Finney. He is also developing the sequel to Chariots of Fire.