Buck Edwards(1937-2007)

Mervyn "Buck" Edwards was born in 1937. He was named after director Mervyn LeRoy, who did such classics as Autant en emporte le vent (1939) and Le Magicien d'Oz (1939). Mervyn's father was a prop man for Warner Brothers studios. Edwards got his start in the motion picture business working as a go-fer for his dad in the prop trailer, when he was still a little boy. He then worked as a location manager on several television series and was a production assistant on several films and TV shows, which included Maverick (1957), Cheyenne (1955) and Hawaiian Eye (1959). In 1973, Mervyn produced the offbeat and perverse low-budget horror picture, Love Me Deadly (1972); he also did an uncredited polish of the script and appears in a small role as a member of a creepy corpse-loving cult. Edwards was the location manager for Les Muppets : Ça c'est du cinéma ! (1979) and handled production manager chores on both The Stone Boy (1984) and La guerre des casinos (1984). He not only was an assistant director for the films, Le concours (1980) and The Bear (1984), but also for various episodes of the TV series, La petite maison dans la prairie (1974) and Les enquêtes de Remington Steele (1982). Mervyn Edwards died on November 13, 2007 in California.