Frederic Raphael

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Frederic Raphael (born August 14, 1931 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American screenwriter .

Life

In 1965 he received an Oscar for his performance in the John Schlesinger film Darling (with Julie Christie ) . Frederic Raphael worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost two years to transform the Arthur Schnitzler material Die Traumnovelle into a script that lived up to Kubrick's claim. Kubrick wanted to bring this story to the big screen 30 years earlier, but constantly preferred other projects or didn't think the time had come. The perfectionist Kubrick demanded many script versions from Raphael before he was satisfied with the final theatrical version of Eyes wide shut .

Christiane Kubrick , the widow of Stanley Kubrick, distanced herself in 1999 from Frederic Raphael's book Eyes Wide Open - A close-up of Stanley Kubrick , in which Raphael reports on the making of the film Eyes wide shut , and accused him of breach of trust and denigration of her deceased husband in front.

Filmography (selection)

Scripts

  • 1958: With the head through the wall ( Bachelor of hearts ) - Director: Wolf Rilla
  • 1961: Come in without knocking ( Don't bother to knock ) - Director: Cyril Frankel
  • 1964: The best is just good enough; also: One goes over corpses again ( Nothing but the Best )
  • 1965: Darling - Director: John Schlesinger
  • 1967: Die Herrin von Thornhill ( Far from the madding crowd ) - Director: John Schlesinger
  • 1967: Two for the Road ( Two for the road ) - Director: Stanley Donen
  • 1970: Trust no house friend ( A severed head ) - directed by Dick Clement - based on a play by JB Priestley
  • 1974: Daisy Miller (Daisy Miller) - directed by Peter Bogdanovich - based on a novel by Henry James
  • 1976: Rogue Male - loners, male ( Rogue Male ) - Clive Donner
  • 1979: Of Mycenae and men (TV)
  • 1980: Richard's Things - Director: Anthony Harvey
  • 1984: Oxbridge Blues (TV miniseries)
  • 1989: After the war (TV miniseries)
  • 1990: The Whore of the King ( La putain de roi ) - Director: Axel Corti
  • 1990: Women and men: Stories of seduction (TV)
  • 1999: Eyes Wide Shut
  • 2002: Hiding Room
  • 2002: This Man, This Woman
  • 2004: Coast to Coast

actor

  • 1964: Swizzlewick (TV series)
  • 1991: Women and Men: In love there are no rules (TV)
  • 2006: Rabbit Fever

Director

  • 1984: Oxbridge Blues (TV miniseries)
  • 1990: Seductive stories (orig .: Women and men: Stories of Seduction ) (TV)

Awards

  • 1965 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for “Best British Screenplay for a Comedy” for Nothing but the Best
  • 1966 - Oscar for " Best Original Screenplay " for Darling
  • 1966 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best British Comedy Screenplay for Darling
  • 1966 - British Film Academy Award in the category " British Best Screenplay " for Darling
  • 1968 - Merit Scroll Award from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain in the categories "Best British Original Screenplay" and "Best British Screenplay for a Comedy" for Two for the road

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Warner Bros. Film website Statement by Christiane Kubrick on warnerbros.com (August 12, 1999)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Raphael, Frederic
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , USA