- "The Pink Panther" series of comedies has made its mark in film history as one of the most popular series ever made. In 1980 "Romance of the Pink Panther" was written by Peter Sellers and Jim Moloney. At the time director Blake Edwards and Sellers didn't want to work together, so Donner was brought in. Unfortunately Sellers, who starred in Donner's What's New Pussycat (1965), died before production started.
- Used his clout to talk English stage stars Vivian Pickles and Jan Waters into acting in a slum pub-theatre production of Robert Patrick's play "Kennedy's Children" for five pounds a week.
- Cousin and close friend of journalist and broadcaster Bernard Levin, and used him as an actor in his Nothing But the Best (1964).
- Donated his papers to BFI Special Collections
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 282-285. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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