Irving Rapper

Irving Rapper

  • Birthday: 1898-01-16
  • Deathday: 1999-02-20
  • Place of birth: London, England, UK
  • Also know as: 欧文·拉帕尔

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Irving Rapper (16 January 1898, or 1902 – 20 December 1999) was an England-born American film director. Born to a Jewish family in London, England, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and stage director on Broadway while studying at New York University. In 1936, he went to Hollywood, where he was hired by Warner Bros. as an assistant director and dialogue coach. He proved invaluable in translating and mediating for non-native English-speaking directors. By the early 1940s, he had metamorphosed into one of the hottest directors on the Warner Bros. lot. He made his directing debut with the 1941 film Shining Victory, in which his friend Bette Davis appeared as a show of support for him. He would go on to direct her in four more films, Now, Voyager (1942), The Corn Is Green (1945), Deception (1946), and Another Man's Poison (1952). In later years, Rapper admitted that he found Davis very difficult to work with and that she would, "...hold the whole set hostage, stopping production for a day, because of her mood." Rapper's film One Foot in Heaven (1941) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film. Perhaps his best film in a studio other than Warner Bros. was The Brave One (1956) about a Mexican boy who must rescue his bull from a brutal fight against a top matador, which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Academy Award for his original screenplay despite being a box office failure. Additional credits include The Voice of the Turtle (1947), The Glass Menagerie (1950), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 hand-colored, black-and-white film The Miracle. Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945), Pontius Pilate (co-director, 1962) and his last film, Born Again (1978), about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson. Rapper died at the age of 101 on 20 December 1999 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where he had been a resident since 1995.

Production

Juarez

1939

As Dialogue Coach

The Life of Emile Zola

1937

As Dialogue Coach

Deception

1946

As Director

Now, Voyager

1942

As Director

Marjorie Morningstar

1958

As Director

Rhapsody in Blue

1945

As Director

The Corn Is Green

1945

As Director

The Glass Menagerie

1950

As Director

Another Man's Poison

1951

As Director

Bad for Each Other

1953

As Director

One Foot in Heaven

1941

As Director

The Gay Sisters

1942

As Director

Joseph and His Brethren

1961

As Director

The Brave One

1956

As Director

Strange Intruder

1956

As Director

Forever Female

1953

As Director

The Miracle

1959

As Director

The Voice of the Turtle

1947

As Director

Anna Lucasta

1949

As Director

Shining Victory

1941

As Director

Pontius Pilate

1962

As Director

The Hole in the Wall

1929

As Assistant Director

The Story of Louis Pasteur

1936

As Assistant Director

The Sisters

1938

As Assistant Director

All This, and Heaven Too

1940

As Assistant Director

Born Again

1978

As Director

Kid Galahad

1937

As Assistant Director

Constantine and the Cross

1961

As Director

Dust Be My Destiny

1939

As Script Supervisor

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940

As Assistant Director

One Foot in Heaven

1941

As Producer

Off the Record

1939

As Dialogue

Stage Struck

1936

As Dialogue

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