Irving Rapper (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was a British-born American film director.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in London, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and a stage director The Glass Menagerie (1950), Marjorie Morningstar (1958), and The Miracle, a 1959 remake of the 1912 hand-coloured, black-and-white film The Miracle.
Biopics directed by Rapper include: The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945),
Death
Rapper died on 20 December 1999 at the age of 101 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, where he had been a resident for four years.