He launched his film career with a string of commercial hits, including Meatballs (1979), Caddyshack (1980), and Stripes (1981).
The Great Race (1965), which featured an all-star cast, began a string of commercial failures for Edwards that included What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
His videos have been watched more than 30m times, a grass-roots popularity that has led to a string of commercial documentary and advertising contracts.
Artisan started producing a string of commercial clinkers and badly reviewed art-house pretenders like "Soul Survivors" (2001), a $14 million production that grossed less than $4 million domestically.
But, while other writers who broke through at about the same time, such as Tom Stoppard and Peter Nichols, had a string of commercial hits, Barnes was never of such interest to commercial producers and movie studios again.
But the leaked files reveal their property interests extend far beyond this, with a string of commercial units on Sloane Street and a £160m stretch of property along Kensington's De Vere Gardens, along with other holdings in Marylebone Road, Richmond and Oxford Street.
As a comedian, he improvised routines with Elaine May which are among the treasures of American humor; as a stage director, beginning in the early sixties, he had a string of commercial hits that made him the most successful Broadway director since George Abbott; as a film director, he made the bold, intelligent "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) and "The Graduate" (1967).
The centres became a lifeline for the island's 13,000 people, employing about one-tenth of them directly.Their closure follows a string of commercial mishaps for an island that was, improbably (and briefly), among the world's richest places in terms of income per head in the 1970s.
A Conservative MP has spent more than £25m buying a six-storey central London house and a string of commercial properties over the past three years, earning him hundreds of thousands of pounds a year in rental income on top of his parliamentary salary.
