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Irving Ravetch is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 14 november 1920 at Newark (USA)

Irving Ravetch

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Birth name Irving Dover Ravetch
Nationality USA
Birth 14 november 1920 at Newark (USA)
Death 19 september 2010 (at 89 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Writers Guild of America Award

Irving Dover Ravetch (November 14, 1920 – September 19, 2010) was an American screenwriter and film producer who frequently collaborated with his wife Harriet Frank, Jr.

Best films

Norma Rae (1979)
(Scriptwriter)
Hud (1963)
(Writer)

Usually with

Martin Ritt
Martin Ritt
(8 films)
Mark Rydell
Mark Rydell
(2 films)
Robert Walker
Robert Walker
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Irving Ravetch (21 films)

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Actor

Murphy's Romance, 1h47
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Georgann Johnson
Roles Customer
Rating69% 3.4954053.4954053.4954053.4954053.495405
Emma qui vient juste de divorcer déménage dans une petite ville avec son garçon, un adolescent de treize ans. Elle se prend alors d'amitié pour un vieux gérant de drugstore veuf. La vie suit son chemin jusqu'à ce que l'ancien mari d'Emma ressurgisse.

Director

The Cowboys, 2h3
Directed by Mark Rydell, Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Robert Carradine
Rating73% 3.697153.697153.697153.697153.69715
When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to find replacement drovers for his upcoming 400-mile (640 km) long cattle drive. He rides into deserted Bozeman, Montana. There, Anse Peterson (Slim Pickens) suggests using local schoolboys. Andersen visits the school but departs unconvinced. The next morning, a group of the boys show up at Andersen's ranch to volunteer for the drive. Andersen tests the boys' ability to stay on a bucking horse. As the boys successfully take turns, Cimarron (A Martinez), another young man slightly older than the others, rides up. After successfully subduing and riding the test horse, Cimarron gets into a fight with Slim (Robert Carradine), the oldest of the boys. Andersen, though impressed by Cimarron's abilities, has misgivings because of his angry nature and sends him away. Andersen reluctantly decides to hire the boys.
Vengeance Valley, 1h18
Directed by John Ireland, Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, Joanne Dru, Richard Thorpe, Irving Ravetch
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Burt Lancaster, Robert Walker, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, Sally Forrest, Ted de Corsia
Rating58% 2.947442.947442.947442.947442.94744
Fifteen years ago, wealthy but crippled Colorado cattleman Arch Strobie (Ray Collins), whose own son Lee (Robert Walker) is wild, took in young Owen Daybright (Burt Lancaster) as a foster son to help raise him. Now Owen is ranch foreman, but Lee, despite being married to Jen (Joanne Dru), is wilder than ever.

Scriptwriter

Stanley & Iris, 1h44
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Jamey Sheridan, Harley Cross
Rating63% 3.15043.15043.15043.15043.1504
Iris King works in a baking factory in Connecticut. Still getting over the recent death of her husband, she lives from paycheck to paycheck as she raises her two children, Kelly and Richard. Also staying with her are her unemployed sister Sharon and Sharon's abusive husband Joe. Iris lives in a high crime area. With money already tight for the family, Kelly discovers she is pregnant which makes matters worse.
Murphy's Romance, 1h47
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Sally Field, James Garner, Brian Kerwin, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Georgann Johnson
Roles Ecrivain
Rating69% 3.4954053.4954053.4954053.4954053.495405
Emma qui vient juste de divorcer déménage dans une petite ville avec son garçon, un adolescent de treize ans. Elle se prend alors d'amitié pour un vieux gérant de drugstore veuf. La vie suit son chemin jusqu'à ce que l'ancien mari d'Emma ressurgisse.
Norma Rae
Norma Rae (1979)
, 1h50
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films, Children's films
Actors Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Morgan Paull, Barbara Baxley
Rating72% 3.64853.64853.64853.64853.6485
Norma Rae Webster is a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill that has taken too much of a toll on the health of her family for her to ignore their poor working conditions. After hearing a speech by a New York union organizer, Reuben Warshowsky, Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her shop. This causes conflict at home when Norma Rae's husband, Sonny, says she's not spending enough time in the home.
The Spikes Gang, 1h36
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Lee Marvin, Gary Grimes, Charles Martin Smith, Ron Howard, Arthur Hunnicutt, Noah Beery, Jr
Rating63% 3.1517153.1517153.1517153.1517153.151715
Harry Spikes (Lee Marvin) is an aging bank robber of the fading "Old West." Injured and near death, he is found and mended back to health by three impressionable youths who are lifelong friends -- Wil (Gary Grimes), Tod (Charles Martin Smith), and Les (Ron Howard). Later, encouraged by Spikes's reminiscences, they run away from home seeking excitement and easy living.
Conrack
Conrack (1974)
, 1h46
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Antonio Fargas, Hume Cronyn, Tina Andrews
Roles Ecrivain
Rating72% 3.6418953.6418953.6418953.6418953.641895
The story follows a young teacher, Pat Conroy (played by Jon Voight), in 1969 assigned to isolated "Yamacraw Island" off the coast of South Carolina and populated mostly by poor black families. He finds out that the children as well as the adults have been isolated from the rest of the world and speak a dialect called Gullah, with "Conrack" of the novel's title being the best they can do to pronounce his last name. The school has only two rooms for all grades combined, with the Principal (Madge Sinclair) teaching grades one through four and Conroy teaching the higher grades. Conroy discovers that the students aren't taught much and will have little hope of making a life in the larger world.
The Carey Treatment, 1h41
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Pregnancy films
Actors James Coburn, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Hingle, Elizabeth Allen, John Fink, Dan O'Herlihy
Rating60% 3.048893.048893.048893.048893.04889
Dr. Peter Carey (James Coburn) is a pathologist who moves to Boston, where he starts working in a hospital. He soon meets Georgia Hightower (Jennifer O'Neill), with whom he falls in love. Karen Randall, daughter of the hospital's Chief Doctor, becomes pregnant and is brought to the emergency department after an illegal abortion. She dies there, and Dr. David Tao (James Hong), a brilliant surgeon and friend of Carey, is arrested and accused of being responsible for the illegal abortion. Carey does not believe his friend to be guilty and starts investigating on his own, despite strong opposition by the police and the doctors around the hospital's chief.
The Cowboys, 2h3
Directed by Mark Rydell, Harriet Frank, Jr., Irving Ravetch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens, Robert Carradine
Rating73% 3.697153.697153.697153.697153.69715
When his ranch hands abandon him to join a gold rush, rancher Wil Andersen (John Wayne) is forced to find replacement drovers for his upcoming 400-mile (640 km) long cattle drive. He rides into deserted Bozeman, Montana. There, Anse Peterson (Slim Pickens) suggests using local schoolboys. Andersen visits the school but departs unconvinced. The next morning, a group of the boys show up at Andersen's ranch to volunteer for the drive. Andersen tests the boys' ability to stay on a bucking horse. As the boys successfully take turns, Cimarron (A Martinez), another young man slightly older than the others, rides up. After successfully subduing and riding the test horse, Cimarron gets into a fight with Slim (Robert Carradine), the oldest of the boys. Andersen, though impressed by Cimarron's abilities, has misgivings because of his angry nature and sends him away. Andersen reluctantly decides to hire the boys.
The Reivers, 1h52
Directed by Mark Rydell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about horses, Road movies, Horse sports in film
Actors Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel, Burgess Meredith, Will Geer, Michael Constantine
Rating65% 3.2979253.2979253.2979253.2979253.297925
Set in 1905, the film follows the exploits of the likable but raffish Boon Hoggenbeck (Steve McQueen), who takes an interest in a new car, a new 1905 Winton Flyer that is the property of a man named Boss (Will Geer), the patriarch of the McCaslin family, who live in the Mississippi area where Boon lives. When the taking of the car first by Boon and then by Ned (Rupert Crosse) (they show themselves to be reivers, or thieves, in the film's start, hence the title) leads to a public brawl, the local magistrate lets them off by a bond that Boss pays on the condition both men stay out of trouble and further away from the car while he is away with family to tend to a funeral. That is soon changed by Boon, who takes the car again to go up to Memphis to see his woman Corrie (Sharon Farrell) and talks his young friend Lucius (Mitch Vogel) into going for the ride. Ned stows away as well, but Boon grudgingly allows him to come. Other characters include a horse that loves sardines and races for them, a friendly bordello madam and her amiable employees, and a man with a horse who lives near an impassable sinkhole full of mud for which he charges expensive rates to get both carts and cars through.
House of Cards, 1h45
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Michell, Perrette Pradier, Maxine Audley
Rating59% 2.996612.996612.996612.996612.99661
Reno Davis (George Peppard) is an American writer who has recently retired from boxing. Now unemployed and broke in France, he finds the wealthy widow of a French general. Anne de Villemont (Inger Stevens) is attracted to Reno's stoicism and they become lovers. She also hires him to tutor her eight-year-old son Paul (Barnaby Shaw).
Hombre
Hombre (1967)
, 1h51
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Paul Newman, Fredric March, Richard Boone, Diane Cilento, Cameron Mitchell, Barbara Rush
Roles Writer
Rating73% 3.696413.696413.696413.696413.69641
In late 19th-century Arizona, an Apache-raised white man, John Russell, faces prejudice in the white world after he returns for his inheritance (a gold watch and a boarding house) upon his father's death. Deciding to sell the house in order to buy a herd of horses—which does not endear him to the boarders who live there or to the caretaker, Jessie—Russell ends up riding a stagecoach with Jessie and unhappily married boarders Doris and Billy Lee Blake leaving town.
Hud
Hud (1963)
, 1h52
Directed by Martin Ritt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Neal, Brandon deWilde, Whit Bissell, John Ashley
Roles Writer
Rating77% 3.896253.896253.896253.896253.89625
Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) is ambitious and self-centered, the opposite of his deeply principled rancher father Homer (Melvyn Douglas). Also living on the Bannon ranch is Hud's teenage nephew, Lonnie (Brandon deWilde), who looks up to both men but is most impressed by Hud. Lonnie and Hud are attracted to the Bannons' middle-aged housekeeper, Alma (Patricia Neal). Although she is attracted to Hud, Alma keeps her distance because she has been mistreated in the past by men like him.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, 2h4
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight, Frank Overton
Rating71% 3.588053.588053.588053.588053.58805
The drama centers on Rubin Flood, who loses his salesman job. While searching for a new job, he must deal with his wife, Cora, who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess, his shy daughter who prepares for her first dance and his pre-teen son who runs to his mother instead of dealing with bullies. He tries to find comfort with a friend, Mavis Pruitt, thus setting off rumors of an untoward relationship.