Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael (born 1931 in Chicago) is an American-born, British-educated screenwriter, and also a prolific novelist and journalist.

Biography

He is the son of Cedric Michael Raphael, an employee of the Shell Oil Co., and Irene Rose Mauser. With his parents, he emigrated to Putney, England in 1938. He was educated at Copthorne Preparatory School, Charterhouse School (Lockites), and St John's College, Cambridge, he won an Oscar for the screenplay for the 1965 movie "Darling", and two years later an Oscar nomination for his screenplay for "Two for the Road". He also wrote the screenplay for the 1967 film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's "Far From the Madding Crowd" directed by John Schlesinger.

His articles and book reviews appear in a number of newspapers and magazines, including the "Los Angeles Times" and "The Sunday Times". He has published more than twenty novels, the best-known of which is the semi-autobiographical "The Glittering Prizes" (1976), which traces the lives of a group of Cambridge University undergraduates in post-war Britain as they move through university and into the wider world. The original six-part BBC television series, from which the book was adapted, won him a Royal Television Society Writer of the Year Award. [Dust jacket notes to "The Glittering Prizes" (London: Allen Lane, 1976) ISBN 0713910283] "Fame and Fortune", which continues the story to 1979, was adapted in 2007 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, television channels having refused to commission the sequel themselves.

Raphael has also published several history books, collections of essays and translations. He has also written biographies of Somerset Maugham and Lord Byron. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964.

In 1999, Raphael published "Eyes Wide Open", a memoir of his collaboration with the director Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of "Eyes Wide Shut", Kubrick's final movie. That year, Penguin Books also published a new translation of Arthur Schnitzler's "Dream Story", the basis for "Eyes Wide Shut", featuring an introduction by Raphael.

He married Sylvia Betty Glatt on January 17 1955 and their children are Paul Simon a film producer), Sarah Natasha (1960-2001) who was a painter, and Stephen Matthew Joshua a screenwriter.

Works

Fiction

*"Obbligato" 1956
*"The Earlsdon Way" 1958
*"The Limits of Love" 1960
*"A Wild Surmise" 1961
*"The Graduate Wife" 1962
*"The Trouble with England" 1962
*"Lindmann" 1963
*"Orchestra and Beginners" 1967
*"Like Men Betrayed" 1970
*"Who Were You With Last Night?" 1971
*"April, June and November" 1972
*"Richard’s Things" 1973
*"California Time" 1975
*"The Glittering Prizes" 1976
*"Oxbridge Blues" 1979
*"After the War" 1990
*"Fame and Fortune" (sequel to "The Glittering Prizes") 2007

Other

*"Somerset Maugham and his World" 1976
*"The Poems of Catullus" (with Kenneth McLeish) 1979
*"The List of Books: A library of over 3000 works" (with Kenneth McLeish) Harmony Books, New York, 1981. ISBN 0-517-540177.
*"The Necessity of Anti-semitism" 1998
*"Eyes Wide Open" 1999
*"Personal Terms" 2001
*"" 2003
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*"" 2006

creenplays (partial list)

*"Nothing but the Best" 1964
*"Darling" 1965
*"Far from the Madding Crowd" 1967
*"Two for the Road" 1968
*"Daisy Miller" 1974
*"Eyes Wide Shut" 1999
*"Coast to Coast" 2003

External links

* [http://www.filmreference.com/film/66/Frederic-Michael-Raphael.html Raphael film reference entry]
*imdb name|id=0710698|name=Frederic Raphael
* [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/230939 Raphael's BFI entry]
* [http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/artists/r/Frederic-Raphael/biography-326671.html Yahoo biography]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/raphael-frederick.html Plays by Raphael]

References