Frederic Raphael

Born 1931 · American-British writer

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. 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.

Frederic Raphael, in order

1958 Bachelor of Hearts: wrote · directed by Wolf Rilla
1965 Darling: wrote · directed by John Schlesinger
1967 Far from the Madding Crowd: wrote · directed by John Schlesinger · critics 65%, audiences 77% · streaming on HBO Max, YouTube (free)
1967 Two for the Road: wrote · directed by Stanley Donen
1970 A Severed Head: wrote · directed by Dick Clement
1974 Daisy Miller: wrote · directed by Peter Bogdanovich · critics 67%, audiences 31% · streaming on Kanopy
1976 Rogue Male (TV movie): wrote · directed by Clive Donner · audiences 50% · streaming on Prime Video (free), MX Player
1976 The Glittering Prizes (TV series): wrote · directed by Robert Knights
1990 The King's Whore: wrote · directed by Axel Corti
1990 Women & Men: Stories of Seduction: directed
1999 Eyes Wide Shut: wrote · directed by Stanley Kubrick · critics 79%, audiences 74% · streaming on Fawesome
2003 Coast to Coast (TV movie): wrote · directed by Paul Mazursky