Irving Rapper

監督, プロデューサー, 俳優

1898年1月16日 — 1999年2月20日 (101年)
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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.

Plex上の映画と番組

  • Another Man's Poison
    Another Man's Poison1951
  • 黒い牡牛
    黒い牡牛1956
  • コンスタンチン大帝
    コンスタンチン大帝1961
  • Joseph and His Brethren
    Joseph and His Brethren1961

次として知られている:

  • 情熱の航路
    情熱の航路1942
  • 愛憎の曲
    愛憎の曲1946
  • Another Man's Poison
    Another Man's Poison1951
  • 小麦は緑
    小麦は緑1945
  • 凡てこの世も天国も
    凡てこの世も天国も1940
  • アメリカ交響楽
    アメリカ交響楽1945
  • 倒れるまで
    倒れるまで1937
  • 科学者の道
    科学者の道1936
  • 我が道は遠けれど
    我が道は遠けれど1941
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Mark Twain1944
  • 初恋
    初恋1958
  • ガラスの動物園(1950)
    ガラスの動物園(1950)1950
  • 黒い牡牛
    黒い牡牛1956
  • Bad for Each Other
    Bad for Each Other1953
  • 三人姉妹
    三人姉妹1942
  • 偉人エーリッヒ博士
    偉人エーリッヒ博士1940
  • The Voice of the Turtle
    The Voice of the Turtle1947
  • Shining Victory
    Shining Victory1941
  • 黄昏(1938)
    黄昏(1938)1938
  • 女性よ永遠に
    女性よ永遠に1953

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