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name: "Frederic Raphael"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 August 1931"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
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# Frederic Raphael

## Identity

Frederic Raphael

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frederic-raphael
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frederic-raphael
- **IMDb ID:** nm0710698
- **TMDB ID:** 5014
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1452750
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Raphael, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452750, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710698/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5014

Writer. Born 14 August 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 August 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Active:** 1965–1999
- **Also known as:** Frederic Michael Raphael
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won · 1 nominated)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 70 (1), 1990s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Raphael, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452750, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710698/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5014

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Eyes Wide Shut*](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md) (81)
- **The Roku Channel:** [*Darling*](https://film.one/film/darling.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Frederic Raphael is an American-born British novelist, screenwriter and journalist. He was born in Chicago in 1931 and educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge.

He is known for his screenplays for *Darling* (1965), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, *Two for the Road* (1967), *Far from the Madding Crowd* (1967) and *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), co-written with Stanley Kubrick. He has also written more than twenty novels and several biographies, and published the memoir *Eyes Wide Open* (1999) about his collaboration with Kubrick.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, screenonline.org.uk.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), Fi1m 81, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md)
- *Darling* (1965), Fi1m 70, Idea, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/darling.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Rabbit Fever* (2006), as Rick Reiter
- *Coast to Coast* (2004), Novel, Screenplay
- *Eyes Wide Shut* (1999), Screenplay — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/eyes-wide-shut.md)
- *Picture Windows* (1995), series, Writer
- *Picture Windows: Armed Response* (1995), Writer
- *Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules* (1991), as Maitre D' (segment 'Mara')
- *The King's Whore* (1990), Screenplay
- *Women and Men: Stories of Seduction* (1990), Writer, Director
- *After the War* (1989), series, Writer, Creator
- *Oxbridge Blues* (1984), series, Writer
- *Richard's Things* (1980), Screenplay, Novel
- *The Best of Friends* (1980), Writer
- *Of Mycenae and Men* (1979), Writer
- *The Serpent Son* (1979), series, Writer
- *School Play* (1979), Writer
- *Something's Wrong* (1978), Director, Writer
- *Premiere* (1977), series, Writer, Director
- *Rogue Male* (1976), Writer
- *The Glittering Prizes* (1976), series, Writer, Creator
- *Daisy Miller* (1974), Screenplay
- *Playhouse* (1974), series, Writer
- *Un monsieur bien rangé* (1973), series, Screenplay
- *Un monsieur bien rangé* (1973), Writer
- *A Severed Head* (1971), Screenplay
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (1967), Screenplay
- *Two for the Road* (1967), Screenplay
- *Darling* (1965), Screenplay, Idea — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/darling.md)
- *Nothing But the Best* (1964), Screenplay
- *Drama '63: A Well Dressed Man* (1963), Writer
- *Drama 61-67* (1961), series, Writer
- *Theatre '70* (1960), series, Writer
- *Bachelor of Hearts* (1958), Writer
- *This Man, This Woman*, Script

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- 1968: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Two for the Road*
- 1966: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (won)

### BAFTA Film Awards — 1 won

- 1966: Best British Screenplay (won)

### Other awards — 1 won

- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature 1964: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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