Raphael has always been a fierce critic of the film industry both in BritainĪnd Hollywood, and the relative paucity of his screen work since After the War
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The series follows them as they grow up and pursue careers in the media, Privileged background, while Joe and his mother are refugees from the war inĮurope. Joe and Michael meetĪs schoolboys in 1942, but while both are Jewish, Michael comes from a It is also probably the most autobiographical. The 10-part series After the War (ITV, 1989), which he considers among hisįinest work. Literally differing degrees of success, but his next major television drama was He continued to plunder his past for Oxbridge Blues (BBC, 1984), adaptedįrom a series of his short stories about two brothers, Cambridge graduates with Anthony Harvey, 1980), an enigmatic love story starring Liv Ullmann as a widow discovering her husband's past, was a rare example of Raphael adapting one of his own novels for the big screen.
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This with a well-received TV adaptation of the classic 1930s Geoffrey Household thriller, Rogue Male (BBC, 1976), which reunited him with director Clive Donner, but returned to familiar territory with another examination of the public school system in the chilling School Play (BBC, 1979). Six episodes, and now considered a landmark in television drama. Raphael returned to television in triumph in 1976 with The Glittering Prizes (BBC), a witty and compelling portrait of his Cambridge generation, told over Popular success, starring both Alan Bates and Julie Christie. John Schlesinger, 1967), a critical failure but a continuing Several more novels followed, as well as literary adaptations for the screen such as the ravishing Far From the Swinger, an iconic portrait by Julie Christie. John Schlesinger, 1965), a coolly detached study of the social rise of a '60s The following year Raphael won an Oscar for Darling (d. Clive Donner, 1964), in which Alan Bates played an ambitious young clerk determined to let nothing - even murder - stand in the way of his rise to His first major screenplay was the blackly comic social satire Nothing but Through religion or class, as Raphael did himself. Who pass through them, especially those who consider themselves outsiders, Raphael has drawn on his experiences of the public school system and CambridgeĮver since, constantly re-examining what such institutions do to the individuals Wolf Rilla, 1958), aĬomedy in which a miscast Hardy Kruger played a German student at Cambridge. Hisįirst big-screen credit was for Bachelor of Hearts (d. Published in 1956, followed by a number of original plays, adaptations andĮpisodes of series such as Probation Officer (ITV, 1959-62), for television. Hugely successful writer, of both screenplays and novels. Working at the Sunday Express, before embarking on a glittering career as a John's College,Ĭambridge, where he read philosophy. Where Raphael was educated at Charterhouse and then St. Were Jewish, and moved first to New York in 1934 and then to England in 1938, McLeish) and Aeschylus (1991).Frederic Raphael was born in Chicago on 14 August 1931, to an American mother and an English father, who worked in public relations at Shell Oil. Raphael also translated Catullus (1978, with K.
A prequel, Spoilt Boy, was published in 2003.
Raphael's screenplays include Darling (1965, directed by John Schlesinger), a satire of life in the swinging sixties, and a six‐part TV series, The Glittering Prizes (1976), which follows the careers of a group of artistic and theatrical Cambridge undergraduates from 1952 to the 1970s. Other novels include Orchestra and Beginners (1967), Heaven and Earth (1985), and Coast to Coast (1998). In Lindmann (1963), the ‘courteous and sad and homeless’ Austrian Lindmann survives the break‐up of the illegal immigrant ship the SS Broda (an actual historical event). His novels, many of which deal with the dilemmas of educated middle‐class life, include Obbligato (1956), The Limits of Love (1960, set partly in Jewish north London), and The Graduate Wife (1962). Novelist, short‐story writer, and screenwriter, born in Chicago, educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and long resident in England.
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