Belunas d'as cintas más significativas d'a suya carrera cinematografica son Mister Roberts (1955, de John Ford y Mervyn LeRoy), Some Like It Hot (1959, Billy Wilder), The Apartment (1960, Billy Wilder), Days of Wine and Roses (1962, Blake Edwards), Irma la Douce (1963, Billy Wilder), The Great Race (1965, Blake Edwards), Save the Tiger (1973, John G. Avildsen), The China Syndrome (1979, James Bridges), Missing (1982, Costa-Gavras), u Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, James Foley).