Frederic Raphael

Frederic Michael Raphael FRSL is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels, but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, a romantic drama set in Swinging London, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966. Two years later he was nominated again in the same category, this time for his work on Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Since the death of screenwriter D. M. Marshman Jr. in 2015, he is the earliest surviving recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the sole surviving recipient of the now retired BAFTA category of Best British Screenplay.

14 August 1931

Born on the same birth day (14 August): August 14 • Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin • Charlotte Fowler Wells • Cupid Childs • Darren Clarke • Earl Barron • Elena Baltacha • Ernest Thompson Seton • Paul Burgess (athlete) • Theodor Luts

Born in the same month (August 1931): Barbara Eden • Bill Shoemaker • Chuck Essegian • Cristina Deutekom • Dolores Alexander • Eddie Fuller • Ernest C. Brace • Hans van Mierlo • James Freeman Gilbert • Jean Béliveau • Joe Cunningham (baseball) • Karl Miller • Mário Zagallo • Noble Willingham • Paula Kent Meehan • Pierre DuMaine • Ramblin' Jack Elliott • Regis Philbin • Rolf Just Nilsen • Stelios Kazantzidis • Tom Laughlin • Tony Wrigley • Trevor Goddard (cricketer) • Viliam Schrojf