Frederic Michael Raphael Biography (1931-)

Born August 14, 1931, in Chicago, IL; immigrated to Putney, England, 1938; son of Cedric Michael (an employee of Shell Oil Co.) and Irene Rose (maiden name, Mauser) Raphael; married Sylvia Betty Glatt, January 17, 1955; children: Paul Simon, Sarah Natasha, and Stephen Matthew Joshua. Addresses: Contact: c/o Deborah Rogers, Coleridge-White, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 IJN, England.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Writer, director, actor
Birth Details: August 14, 1931; Chicago, Illinois, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Television Appearances
Specials
Maitre D', Women & Men 2: In Love There Are No Rules, 1991
Episodic
Frontiers (documentary), Arts and Entertainment, 1990
Television Director
Specials
"Something's Wrong," Premiere, BBC, 1979
Episodic
"The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," Women and Men: Stories of Seduction, HBO, 1990
WRITINGS
Screenplays
(With Leslie Bricusse) Bachelor of Hearts (also known as Bachelor), J. Arthur Rank, 1958
(With Denis Cannan and Frederick Gotfurt) Don't Bother to Knock (also known as Why Bother to Knock?), Seven Arts, 1961
Nothing but the Best (based on the short story by Stanley Ellin),Columbia, 1964
(And author of story, with others), Darling, Embassy, 1965
Two for the Road, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967; published by Cape (London, England) and Holt Rinehart (New York City), 1967
Far from the Madding Crowd, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1967
A Severed Head, Columbia, 1972
Daisy Miller, Paramount, 1974
Richard's Things, New World, 1980
(With Michael Radford and Jonathan Gems) White Mischief, Columbia,1988
(With Axel Corti and Daniel Vigne) The King's Whore (also known asJeanne, The King's Mistress, La donna del re, and Laputain de roi; based on the novel Jeanne de Luynes, Comtesse de Verue, by Jacques Tournier), Vidmark Entertainment, 1993
(With Stanley Kubrick and Arthur Schnitzler) Eyes Wide Shut (alsoknown as EWS), Warner Bros., 1999
This Man, This Woman, Mike Lobell Productions, 2002
Hiding Room, 2002
Film Song Lyrics
"The Best of Everything," Nothing but the Best (based on the shortstory by Stanley Ellin), Columbia, 1964
Stage Plays
(With Lucienne Hill; music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Robin Beaumont) Lady at the Wheel, produced in London, 1958
A Man on the Bridge, produced in Hornchurch, England, 1961
An Early Life, produced in Leicester, England, 1979
From the Greek, produced at Arts Theatre, Cambridge, England, 1979
Television Miniseries
The Glittering Prizes, BBC, 1976; published in book form by AllenLane (London), 1976
"After the War," Masterpiece Theatre, PBS, 1990
Television Movies
"The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," Women and Men: Stories of Seduction, HBO, 1990
Television Specials
"The Executioners," Drama '61, Anglia TV, 1961
Rogue Male (based on the novel by Geoffrey Household), BBC, 1976
"Something's Wrong," Premiere, BBC, 1979
(As Frederick Raphael) School Play (also known as BBC2 Playhouse: School Play), 1979
Sleeps Six, Arts and Entertainment, 1984

Television Episodes
The Best of Friends, 1980
Oxbridge Blues, Arts and Entertainment, 1986
"Armed Response," Picture Windows (also known as Picture Windows: Language of the Heart), Showtime, 1995
Television Writings
Other
Image of a Society (based on the novel by Roy Fuller), 1963
The Trouble with England (based on his novel), 1964
(With Kenneth McLeish), Of Mycenae and Men, 1979
Byron: A Personal Tour (documentary), 1981
Radio Works
The Daedalus Dimension, 1979
Death in Trieste, 1981
The Thought of Lydia, 1988
The Empty Jew, 1994
Novels
Obbligato, MacMillan (London), 1956
The Earlsdon Way, Cassell (London), 1958
The Limits of Love, Cassell, 1960
A Wild Surmise, Cassell, 1961
The Graduate Wife, Cassell, 1962
The Trouble with England, Cassell, 1962
Lindmann, Cassell, 1963
Orchestra and Beginners, Cape (London), 1967
Like Men Betrayed, Cape, 1970
Who Were You with Last Night?, Cape, 1971
April, June, and November, Cape, 1972
Richard's Things, Cape, 1973
California Time, Cape, 1975
Heaven and Earth, Cape, 1985
After the War, Collins (London), 1988
The Hidden I: A Myth Revised, Thames & Hudson (New York City),1990
A Double Life, Orion (London), 1993
Old Scores, Orion, 1995
Coast to Coast, Catbird Press (New Haven, CT), 1999
Biographies
W. Somerset Maugham and His World, Thames & Hudson, 1977
Byron, Thames & Hudson, 1982
Short Stories
Sleeps Six and Other Stories, Cape, 1979
Oxbridge Blues and Other Stories, Cape, 1980
Comings and Goings, 1984
Think of England and Other Stories, Cape, 1986, Scribner (New YorkCity), 1988
The Latin Lover and Other Stories, Orion, 1994
All His Sons, 1999
Karl Popper: Historicism and Its Poverty, Routledge (London), 1999
Translations
(With Kenneth McLeish) Poems of Catullus, Cape, 1978
(With McLeish) The Oresteia of Aeschylus (televised as The Serpent Son by the BBC), Cambridge University Press, 1979
(With McLeish) The Complete Plays of Aeschylus, Methuen (London),1991
(With McLeish) Euripides, Medea, Hern (London), 1994
Sophocles' Aias, 1998
Petronius' Satyricon, 2001
Essays
(Editor; and introduction) Bookmarks, Cape, 1975
Cracks in the Ice: Views and Reviews, W. H. Allen (London), 1979
The Necessity of Anti-Semitism, University of Southampton (Southampton, England), 1989 St. Martin's Press, 1997
Of Gods and Men, Folio Society (London), 1992
(Editor; with Ray Monk) The Great Philosophers, 2000
Personal Terms, 2001
The Benefits of Doubt, 2002
Other
(Compiler, with Kenneth McLeish) A List of Books: An Imaginary Library, Harmony (New York City), 1981
France: The Four Seasons, Pavilion (London), 1994
(Author of introduction) Six Plays by Euripides, Methuen Drama (London), 1997
Eyes Wide Open: A Memoir of Stanley Kubrick, Ballantine Books, 1999

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Volume 1, Gale, 1981
Contemporary Novelists, 7th edition, St. James Press, 2001
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 14, Part 2: British Novelists since 1960, Gale, 1983

Periodicals

Arion, winter, 1964, pp. 68-73

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