Frederic Raphael
American-British writer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1931 · age 95
Frederic Michael Raphael 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.
Frederic Raphael is read about 64 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 June 2026
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People around Frederic
Close ties
Tom Conti Frederic wrote A Double Life and A Love Life- John Schlesinger Directed Darling and Far from the Madding Crowd
- Clive Donner Directed Nothing But the Best and Rogue Male
Barbara Kellerman Frederic wrote A Double Life and A Love Life- James Cellan Jones Directed School Play and Oxbridge Blues
David Brown Produced Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Stanley Kubrick Directed Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
James Woods Frederic directed Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Julie Christie Also in Darling and Far from the Madding Crowd
Stanley Donen Directed Two for the Road (1967)
Alan Bates Frederic wrote Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Bob Rafelson Directed Picture Windows: Armed Response (1995)
Anthony Harvey Directed Richard's Things (1980)
David Robb Also in Something's Wrong (1978)- Axel Corti Directed The King's Whore (1990)
Jan Harlan Produced Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Joseph E. Levine Produced Darling (1965)
Alan Ladd Jr. Produced A Severed Head (1971)
Dick Clement Directed A Severed Head (1971)
Ted Hartley Produced Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)- Wolf Rilla Directed Bachelor of Hearts (1958)
- Maurice Bernart Produced The King's Whore (1990)
Media & music
![The Earlsdon Way by Frederic Raphael, 1st Edition cover, 1958[14]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/The_Earlsdon_Way_by_Frederic_Raphael%2C_1st_Edition_1958.jpg/1280px-The_Earlsdon_Way_by_Frederic_Raphael%2C_1st_Edition_1958.jpg)
Awards
About this person
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.
