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name: "Irving Ravetch"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "14 November 1920"
died: "19 September 2010"
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average_as: "writer"
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updated: "2026-09-20T06:13:26.825534+00:00"
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# Irving Ravetch

Writer. Born 14 November 1920 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Died 19 September 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 14 November 1920, Newark, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 19 September 2010
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Ravetch, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1673282, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712419/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46620

## Biography

Irving Ravetch was an American screenwriter and producer. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, on 14 November 1920 and died in Los Angeles on 19 September 2010. After studying at the University of California, Los Angeles, he joined the writers’ training programme at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he met Harriet Frank Jr., whom he married in 1946. They collaborated on numerous screenplays.

Ravetch and Frank worked frequently with director Martin Ritt. Their credits include *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958), *Hud* (1963), *Hombre* (1967), *The Reivers* (1969), *Norma Rae* (1979), *Murphy’s Romance* (1985) and *Stanley & Iris* (1990). They also wrote *The Cowboys* (1972) and *Home from the Hill* (1960). Ravetch received Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay for *Hud* and *Norma Rae*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Norma Rae* (1979), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/norma-rae.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Stanley & Iris* (1990), Screenplay
- *Murphy's Romance* (1985), as Customer · Screenplay
- *Norma Rae* (1979), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/norma-rae.md)
- *The Spikes Gang* (1974), Producer, Screenplay
- *Conrack* (1974), Screenplay
- *The Carey Treatment* (1972), Screenplay
- *The Cowboys* (1972), Screenplay
- *The Reivers* (1969), Producer, Screenplay
- *House of Cards* (1968), Screenplay
- *Hombre* (1967), Producer, Writer
- *Hud* (1963), Writer, Producer
- *The Dark at the Top of the Stairs* (1960), Screenplay
- *Home from the Hill* (1960), Screenplay
- *The Sound and the Fury* (1959), Screenplay
- *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958), Screenplay
- *Run for Cover* (1955), Story
- *Ten Wanted Men* (1955), Story
- *The Lone Hand* (1953), Story
- *Vengeance Valley* (1951), Screenplay
- *The Outriders* (1950), Screenplay, Story
- *Living in a Big Way* (1947), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1980: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Norma Rae*
- 1964: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Hud*

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

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