Editing Lew Archer (section)

===Film===
The character has been adapted for visual media several times:
Two feature films starring [[Paul Newman]]<ref name=dl/> as "Lew ''Harper''":
*''[[Harper (film)|Harper]]''  (1966,<ref name=dl/> directed by [[Jack Smight]]) derived from the novel ''[[The Moving Target]]'' (1949)
*''[[The Drowning Pool (film)|The Drowning Pool]]''  (1975,<ref name=dl/> directed by [[Stuart Rosenberg]]) derived from the [[The Drowning Pool|novel of the same title]]
*''[[The Underground Man (1974 film)|The Underground Man]]''  (1974, directed by Paul Wendkos) a television movie starring [[Peter Graves (actor)|Peter Graves]].
*''Le Loup de la côte Ouest'' (2002, directed by [[Hugo Santiago]], based on the short story "Guilt-Edged Blonde") starring [[James Faulkner (actor)|James Faulkner]] as Lew ''Millar''. (Alternate Title: The Wolf of the West Coast)

[[Random House Studio|Random House Films]] made a deal in October 2011 to create a movie franchise of [[Ross Macdonald]]'s detective Lew Archer with [[Joel Silver|Silver Pictures]] and [[Warner Bros.]] Rights holder Stephen White and Random House Studio president Peter Gethers would be executive producers on the movies. This movie series would start adapting with the eighth book in the series, ''The Galton Case''.  From Silver Pictures, Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will be executive producers with Joel Silver producing.<ref name=dl/>