Irving Rapper
Known for
Where the audience sees actors, Irving Rapper is a British director responsible for choices the audience only ever sees the result of. The best-known title on the record is 'Now, Voyager'. If there is a home genre here, it is romance. 22 entries make up the record, most of them known only to people who read credits.
Irving Rapper
21 Directed
Where the audience sees actors, Irving Rapper is a British director responsible for choices the audience only ever sees the result of. The best-known title on the record is 'Now, Voyager'. If there is a home genre here, it is romance. 22 entries make up the record, most of them known only to people who read credits.
Movies
Director
Now, Voyager
1942
Director
The Brave One
1956
Director
Marjorie Morningstar
1958
Director
The Adventures of Mark Twain
1944
Director
The Miracle
1959
Director
The Glass Menagerie
1950
Director
Pontius Pilate
1962
Director
Deception
1946
Director
Bad for Each Other
1953
Director
Joseph and His Brethren
1961
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Another Man's Poison
1951
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One Foot in Heaven
1941
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Forever Female
1953
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The Corn Is Green
1945
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The Gay Sisters
1942
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The Christine Jorgensen Story
1970
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Rhapsody in Blue
1945
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Shining Victory
1941
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Strange Intruder
1956
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Anna Lucasta
1949
Full Filmography
Born Again
Director
1978
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The Christine Jorgensen Story
Director
1970
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Pontius Pilate
Director
1962
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Joseph and His Brethren
Director
1961
Film
The Miracle
Director
1959
Film
Marjorie Morningstar
Director
1958
Film
The Brave One
Director
1956
Film
Strange Intruder
Director
1956
Film
Bad for Each Other
Director
1953
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Irving Rapper still alive?
Irving Rapper passed away on February 20, 1999 at age 101.
What are the most famous roles of Irving Rapper?
Irving Rapper is best known for directing Now, Voyager, Another Man's Poison, Deception.
How many movies has Irving Rapper directed?
Over a 58-year career (since 1941), Irving Rapper has directed or written 21 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Irving Rapper's first movie?
The career of Irving Rapper began with Shining Victory (1941).
What is Irving Rapper's most recent movie or series?
Irving Rapper's most recent release is Born Again, which premiered on October 1, 1978.
Irving Rapper
1898-01-16 · London, England, UK
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.