Irving Rapper (6 January 1898 - 20 December 1999) was a film director. Born in London on January 16, 1898, he emigrated to the United States and became an actor and stage director on Broadway while studying at New York University. In the mid-1930s he journeyed westward to Hollywood, hired by Warner Bros. as an assistant director and dialog coach at Warner Bros., where he proved invaluable translating, and mediating for, non-native English-speaking directors, … Wikipedia
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Irving Rapper was one of the last surviving directors from the Golden Age of Hollywood, passing away on Dec. 20, 1999, at the age of 101, four weeks shy of his 102nd birthday. Rapper is best remembered for the films he made with Bette Davis, including the www.imdb.com/name/nm0710924/