Irving Rapper
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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.
Detrás de Cámaras
La extraña pasajera
Director
Deception
Director
The Voice of the Turtle
Director
The Sisters
Assistant Director
Juarez
Dialogue Coach
The Miracle
Director
All This, and Heaven Too
Assistant Director
José y sus hermanos
Director
The Brave One
Director
Invisible Stripes
Dialogue Coach
Rapsodia en azul
Director
Kid Galahad
Assistant Director, Dialogue Coach
The Life of Emile Zola
Dialogue Coach
Ponzio Pilato
Director
Bad for Each Other
Director
Marjorie Morningstar
Director
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Assistant Director
The Gay Sisters
Director
Forever Female
Director
The Adventures of Mark Twain
Director
Another Man's Poison
Director
Dust Be My Destiny
Script Supervisor
The Go-Getter
Dialogue Coach
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Assistant Director
The Glass Menagerie
Director
Off the Record
Dialogue
The Christine Jorgensen Story
Director
The Corn Is Green
Director
The Hole in the Wall
Assistant Director
Shining Victory
Director