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 • Benito Carbone • Bennie Muller • Catherine of York • Christopher Gorham • David Crosby • Frank Brickowski • Georges Prêtre • Kyle Turris • Larry Graham • Laurent Lamothe • Marcia Gay Harden • Mila Kunis • Peter Costello • Richard R. Ernst • Stig Tøfting • Tracy Caldwell Dyson • Willie Dunn

Born in the same month (August 1931): Chalmers Johnson • Chuck Essegian • Cristina Deutekom • Grant Williams (actor) • Hans van Mierlo • Ramblin' Jack Elliott • Tito Capobianco • William Goldman