Irving Rapper

导演, 制片人, 演员

1898年1月16日 — 1999年2月20日 (101 years)
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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 上的电影与电视节目

  • 毒妇与恶汉
    毒妇与恶汉1951
  • 勇敢的人
    勇敢的人1956
  • 君士坦丁大帝
    君士坦丁大帝1961
  • Joseph and His Brethren
    Joseph and His Brethren1961

知名作品

  • 扬帆
    扬帆1942
  • 鹃血啼痕
    鹃血啼痕1946
  • 毒妇与恶汉
    毒妇与恶汉1951
  • The Corn Is Green
    The Corn Is Green1945
  • 艺海群英
    艺海群英1945
  • 艳窟啼痕
    艳窟啼痕1937
  • 卿何遵命
    卿何遵命1940
  • 万世流芳
    万世流芳1936
  • 踏入天堂
    踏入天堂1941
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain
    The Adventures of Mark Twain1944
  • 痴凤啼痕
    痴凤啼痕1958
  • The Glass Menagerie
    The Glass Menagerie1950
  • 勇敢的人
    勇敢的人1956
  • Bad for Each Other
    Bad for Each Other1953
  • 三姐妹
    三姐妹1938
  • The Gay Sisters
    The Gay Sisters1942
  • 埃尔利希博士的魔弹
    埃尔利希博士的魔弹1940
  • 邂逅的爱情
    邂逅的爱情1947
  • Shining Victory
    Shining Victory1941
  • 女人万岁
    女人万岁1953

影視作品

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