Irving Rapper: Quick Facts

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Born	January 16, 1898 • London • England
Died	December 20, 1999 (aged 101) • Los Angeles • California
Notable Works	“Anna Lucasta” • “Another Man’s Poison” • “Deception” • “Now, Voyager” • “One Foot in Heaven” • “The Adventures of Mark Twain” • “The Corn Is Green” • “The Glass Menagerie” • “The Voice of the Turtle”

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Claude Rains, Bette Davis, and Paul Henreid in formal attire stand in a furnished room, with Bette Davis shaking hands with Claude Rains in a scene from Deception (1946).

Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in a black-and-white scene from the film Now, Voyager, standing close together as he gently holds her hand.

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Judith Malina

American theater director and actress

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Harold Ramis

American actor, writer, and director

King, Henry

Henry King

American director

Tyler Perry wearing a black suit and white shirt, holding an award and posing in front of a step and repeat backdrop at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.

Tyler Perry

American playwright, actor, screenwriter, producer, and director

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Albert Lewin

American producer, screenwriter, and director

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Stan Brakhage

American filmmaker

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Ethan Coen

American filmmaker

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Michael Cimino

American director

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Joel Coen

American filmmaker

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Maggie Gyllenhaal

American actress

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David Maysles

American documentary filmmaker

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Jesse Lasky

American producer

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James Ivory

American director

Master of suspense

Alfred Hitchcock

English-born American director

Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Steven Spielberg

American film director and producer

Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.

Woody Allen

American director, writer, and actor

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.

Vincente Minnelli

American director

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor