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Irving Rapper, director, 101 |
 | | Known as a director of romantic melodramas referred to as ''women's pictures,'' Rapper worked with such performers as Fredric March, Kirk Douglas, Eve Arden, Claude Rains, and Ronald Reagan, an actor he later said he regretted casting. |
 | | Overall, the London-born filmmaker's most successful body of work is comprised of the nine films Rapper made while under contract with Warner Bros., where he started out in 1936 as a dialogue coach. |
 | | Other biopics directed by Rapper included ``The Adventures of Mark Twain'' (1944), ``Pontius Pilate'' (1962) -- one of two biblical films he directed in Italy during the 1960s -- and his very last film, the 1978 flop ``Born Again,'' about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Nixon aide Charles Colson. |
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