Irving Rapper

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Irving Rapper 16 January 1898 or 1902 20 December 1999 was an Englandborn 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 nonnative Englishspeaking 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 Mans 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 Rappers 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 thenblacklisted 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 handcolored blackandwhite film The Miracle Biopics directed by Rapper include The Adventures of Mark Twain 1944 Rhapsody in Blue 1945 Pontius Pilate codirector 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

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D.O.B: 1898-01-16
D.O.D: 1999-02-20
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Profession: director

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