Irving Rapper

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1898-01-16

Deathday 1999-02-20 (101 years old)

Place of Birth London, England, UK

Also Known As 欧文·拉帕尔

Irving Rapper

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.

Known For

Director

1978
Born Again

as Director

1962
Pontius Pilate

as Director

1961
1959
The Miracle

as Director

1958
1956
The Brave One

as Director

1956
Strange Intruder

as Director

1953
Bad for Each Other

as Director

1953
Forever Female

as Director

1951
1950
1949
Anna Lucasta

as Director

1947
1946
Deception

as Director

1945
Rhapsody in Blue

as Director

1945
The Corn Is Green

as Director

1942
Now, Voyager

as Director

1942
The Gay Sisters

as Director

1941
One Foot in Heaven

as Director

1941
Shining Victory

as Director

1940
All This, and Heaven Too

as Assistant Director

1940
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

as Assistant Director

1939
Dust Be My Destiny

as Script Supervisor

1938
The Sisters

as Assistant Director

1937
Kid Galahad

as Assistant Director

1936
The Story of Louis Pasteur

as Assistant Director

1929
The Hole in the Wall

as Assistant Director

Crew

1939
Juarez

as Dialogue Coach

1937
The Life of Emile Zola

as Dialogue Coach

Writer

1939
Off the Record

as Dialogue

1936
Stage Struck

as Dialogue

Producer

1941
One Foot in Heaven

as Producer