Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael FRSL (born 14 August 1931) is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels, but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, a romantic drama set in 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frederic Raphael, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

6.1

Rabbit Fever

The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the Rabbit is becoming the new addiction; women who start using often find they simply cannot stop. RABBIT FEVER is the first film to follow the trials and tribulations of a group of Rabbit Addicts as they attempt to kick their Rabbit habit.

Release Date2006-09-22

Charactersd Rick Reiter

Vote Count5

4.1

Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules

Three short stories about women & men relationship.

Release Date1991-08-18

Charactersd Maitre D'

Vote Count9

Film '72
4.7

Film '72

The BBC's flagship cinema review TV program featuring reviews of new releases, news items and interviews. The title of the program changes each year to incorporate the year of broadcast.

Release Date1971-11-16

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count7

Vote Count6

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
7.0

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

Release Date1993-09-05

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Playhouse
7.0

Playhouse

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Release Date1974-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

7.5

Eyes Wide Shut

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Release Date1999-07-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6978

Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.

Release Date1961-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Oxbridge Blues
7.0

Oxbridge Blues

An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Release Date1984-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

6.7

Darling

Diana, a beautiful but shallow and easily distracted model and failed actress, toys with the affections of several men while attempting to gain fame and fortune in Swinging London.

Release Date1965-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count147

Picture Windows
10.0

Picture Windows

Famous paintings come to life to tell a story by renowned authors, directed by world class directors.

Release Date1995-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

7.0

Two for the Road

Architect Mark Wallace and his wife, Joanna, travel to France to meet with an affluent client. While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship, and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

Release Date1967-04-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count264

After the War
6.5

After the War

John Madden's sweeping drama After the War tells the tale of a quarter-century relationship between two men who share a similar wartime experience and a similar religious background. Michael Jordan grew up in a well-heeled British family, while Joe Hirsch spent much of his childhood on the run from the Nazis. The two become friends when they are both enrolled at the same school in 1942. They survive anti-Semitic taunts together. Joe grows into a powerful media figure, while Michael becomes a respected man of the arts. The film charts a quarter-century of their history together, detailing a relationship that is equally affectionate and hostile.

Release Date1989-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count4

The Glittering Prizes
7.3

The Glittering Prizes

The Glittering Prizes is a six-part British television drama written by Frederic Raphael, broadcast on BBC Two in 1976. From the 1950s to 1970s, a group of Cambridge University students explore their changing lives and the 'glittering prizes' of success, academia and personal fulfillment in a shifting Britain.

Release Date1976-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

6.8

Far from the Madding Crowd

Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.

Release Date1967-06-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count103

6.3

Daisy Miller

Despite mixed emotions, Frederick Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow friends.

Release Date1974-05-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count34

6.5

Rogue Male

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

Release Date1976-09-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count22

5.2

A Severed Head

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, a mistress called Georgie, whom his womanizing brother also desires. All the while, Palmer's sister Honor seems to know everyone's business.

Release Date1971-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

6.1

Nothing But the Best

Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!

Release Date1964-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count11

4.8

The King's Whore

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

Release Date1990-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count26

The Serpent Son
9.5

The Serpent Son

Adaptation of the Aeschylus trilogy by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish.

Release Date1979-03-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

4.4

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.

Release Date1990-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

5.9

Bachelor of Hearts

A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.

Release Date1958-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

7.0

Coast to Coast

Barnaby and Maxine Pierce, an embattled married couple in Connecticut, are on the verge of divorce. Their son is getting married in California and they decide to drive across the country to attend. Along the way, as they visit family and friends, they reflect on their tattered relationship and the events that transpired to create the estrangement.

Release Date2004-04-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count6

4.9

Richard's Things

Following her husband's death, a wife discovers and confronts her husband's lover. Their mutual pain, love, envy and jealousy bring them together in an unexpected emotional and physical relationship.

Release Date1980-12-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count12

This Man, This Woman

An estranged man, Matt Heller, and a woman, Martha Parks, encounter each other by chance on a plane, and relive memories of their turbulent romantic relationship. Kirsty Sachs, a talk show host who has an affair with Heller and changes the course of his whirlwind relationship with Parks.

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

10.0

Picture Windows: Armed Response

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," Bob Rafelson’s "Armed Response" draws on David Hockney’s Pool with Two Figures to tell the story of a wealthy lawyer whose American Dream shatters when his children plot his murder, forcing hidden family secrets to the surface.

Release Date1995-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

School Play

Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Un monsieur bien rangé

Release Date1973-04-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Best of Friends

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet unexpectedly after ten years, how will things be?

Release Date1980-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

7.5

Of Mycenae and Men

Historical comedy, showing what happened to Helen of Troy after the Trojan War.

Release Date1979-03-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Something's Wrong

The businessman's private medical check-up is usually considered one of the perks of the job, but Trevor finds that all is not quite what it seems when his examination turns out to be more personal than physical.

Release Date1978-09-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Drama '63: A Well Dressed Man

Philip quickly comes to regret volunteering to be a witness in a murder trial.

Release Date1963-07-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter