
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.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-01-16
Place of Birth
London, England, UK
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Cast
Crew
Juarez
19396.5 / 10
Now, Voyager
19427.4 / 10
Deception
19466.5 / 10
Marjorie Morningstar
19586.2 / 10
The Corn Is Green
19457.1 / 10
Rhapsody in Blue
19456.4 / 10
The Glass Menagerie
19505.8 / 10
One Foot in Heaven
19416.6 / 10
Another Man's Poison
19516.6 / 10
Bad for Each Other
19535.7 / 10
The Christine Jorgensen Story
19703.3 / 10
The Gay Sisters
19426.5 / 10
The Adventures of Mark Twain
19446.6 / 10
Joseph and His Brethren
19615.8 / 10
The Brave One
19565.6 / 10
Strange Intruder
19565.6 / 10
Forever Female
19536.7 / 10
The Miracle
19596.7 / 10
The Voice of the Turtle
19476.6 / 10
Anna Lucasta
19494.3 / 10
Shining Victory
19415.9 / 10
Pontius Pilate
19626.4 / 10
The Hole in the Wall
19295.2 / 10
The Story of Louis Pasteur
19366.8 / 10
The Sisters
19386.1 / 10
All This, and Heaven Too
19407.1 / 10
Born Again
19780.0 / 10
Kid Galahad
19377.0 / 10
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
19406.4 / 10
Dust Be My Destiny
19396.2 / 10
The Life of Emile Zola
19376.7 / 10
Off the Record
19396.0 / 10
Stage Struck
19364.0 / 10
The Go-Getter
19375.8 / 10
Invisible Stripes
19396.3 / 10