Frederic Raphael

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Frederic Raphael

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge
Occupations
  • Novelist
  • Screenwriter
  • Journalist
Years active1956–present
Spouse(s)Sylvia Betty Glatt
(m.1955–present)
Children3, including
Academy Award, BAFTA, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Frederic Michael Raphael

Swinging London, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966. Two years later he was nominated again in the same category, this time for his work on Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Since the death of screenwriter D. M. Marshman Jr. in 2015, he is the earliest surviving recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the sole surviving recipient of the now retired BAFTA category of Best British Screenplay
.

In addition to his work in film and television, he has written over 20 novels, and a number of non-fiction books, including biographies of Lord Byron, W. Somerset Maugham and Flavius Josephus, as well as a memoir of his time working with Stanley Kubrick, entitled Eyes Wide Open.[1]

Early life

Raphael was born in

Copthorne Preparatory School, Charterhouse School, and St John's College, Cambridge.[5]

Career

Raphael won an

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.[6] The sequel, Fame and Fortune, which continues the story to 1979, was adapted in 2007 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2010, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a further sequel in a series entitled Final Demands, with Tom Conti
as Adam Morris, the central character, bringing the story to the late 1990s.

Raphael has published several history books, collections of essays, and translations. He has also written biographies of W. Somerset Maugham and Lord Byron. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964.[7]

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. Raphael wrote a detailed account of his working with Kubrick, based on his own journals, but upon its publication the book was publicly criticised by several of the director's friends and family members, among them Christiane Kubrick,[8] Jan Harlan,[9] and Michael Herr,[10] for its alleged unflattering portrayal of him. Referring to an article by Raphael about his book in The New Yorker, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise also professed criticism.[11][12]

Frederic Raphael

That year, Penguin Books published a new translation of Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story, the basis for Eyes Wide Shut, featuring a new introduction by Raphael.

Personal life

He married Sylvia Betty Glatt, known as 'Beetle', on 17 January 1955, and they had three children and nine grandchildren. His daughter, Sarah Raphael, was an English artist known for her portraits. She died in 2001.

Selected works

Film and TV

Year Title Director Notes
1958 Bachelor of Hearts Wolf Rilla
1964 Nothing but the Best Clive Donner Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Foreign Film
1965 Darling John Schlesinger Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
BAFTA Film Award for Best British Screenplay

Writers Guild of Great Britain Award - Best British Comedy Screenplay

1967 Far from the Madding Crowd John Schlesinger
1967 Two for the Road Stanley Donen Nominated - Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated - BAFTA Film Award for Best British Screenplay
1970 A Severed Head Dick Clement
1974 Daisy Miller Peter Bogdanovich
1976 The Glittering Prizes Waris Hussein and Robert Knights TV series
1976 Rogue Male Clive Donner TV film
1980 Richard's Things Anthony Harvey Based on his novel
1984 Oxbridge Blues James Cellan Jones and Richard Stroud TV series

CableACE Award for Best Writing a Dramatic Series
Based on his short story collection Sleeps Six and other stories (1979)
Also directed the episode "He'll See You Now"

1990 After the War John Madden TV series
Based on his novel
1990 The King's Whore Axel Corti
1991
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
 Self-directed TV film
Segment "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Suit"
1999 Eyes Wide Shut Stanley Kubrick
2003 Coast to Coast Paul Mazursky Based on his novel


Fiction

The Earlsdon Way by Frederic Raphael, 1st Edition cover, 1958[13]
  • 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)
  • Darling (1965) (novelization of his screenplay)
  • 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) (adapted from the TV series)
  • Sleeps Six and other stories (1979) (short story collection)
  • Heaven and Earth (1985)
  • Think of England (1986)
  • After the War (1990)
  • The Hidden Eye (1990)
  • Of Gods and Men (1992)
  • A Double Life (1993)
  • The Latin Lover and Other Stories (1994)
  • Coast to Coast (1998)
  • Fame and Fortune (2007) (sequel to The Glittering Prizes)
  • Final Demands (2010) (sequel to Fame and Fortune)
  • Private Views (2015)

Non-fiction

Translations

Memoirs

  • Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick (1999)
  • Personal Terms (2001)
  • The Benefits of Doubt: Essays (2003)
  • A Spoilt Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood (2003)
  • Rough Copy: Personal Terms 2 (2004)
  • Cuts and Bruises: Personal Terms 3 (2006)
  • Ticks and Crosses: Personal Terms 4 (2009)
  • Ifs and Buts: Personal Terms 5 (2011)
  • There and Then: Personal Terms 6 (2013)
  • Going Up: To Cambridge and Beyond - A Writer's Memoir (2015)
  • Against the Stream: Personal Terms 7 (2018)
  • Last Post (2023) (ISBN 978-1800173033)
  • The World's Game (2024) (ISBN 978-1837933389)

References

  1. ^ "Frederic Raphael: Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir Of Stanley Kubrick". The A.V. Club. 29 March 2002. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b Frederic Raphael, Antiquity Matters (2017), "Introduction", p. ix: "I am an accidental classicist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931, with every expectation of growing up in America..."
  3. ISBN 978-0-253-20493-6
    .
  4. ^ "Frederic Michael Raphael Biography (1931–)". Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  5. ^ Roger Lewis, "Going Up to Cambridge and Beyond: A Writer’s Memoir by Frederic Raphael", The Times, 8 August 2015, accessed 4 September 2021
  6. ISBN 0-7139-1028-3
  7. ^ "RSL FELLOWS > FREDERIC RAPHAEL". The Royal Society of Literature.
  8. ^ "Christiane Kubrick's Website". Archived from the original on 31 March 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  9. ^ "Those Close to Kubrick – IGN". IGN. 7 November 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  10. ^ "The Kubrick FAQ Part 3". Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  11. ^ "Kubrick 'Memoir' shocks Spielberg". 18 June 1999.
  12. ^ Roger Ebert. "Cruise opens up about working with Kubrick – Interviews – Roger Ebert". Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
  13. ^ frederic raphael (1958). the earlsdon way. Internet Archive.
  14. ^ Raphael, Frederic (13 August 2011). "How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo". The Wall Street Journal.

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