Irving Rapper (16 January 1898 – 20 December 1999) was a British-born American film director.

[1] Born to a Jewish family[2] in London, Rapper emigrated to the United States and became an actor and a stage director[1] on Broadway while studying at New York University.

He made his directing debut with the 1941 film Shining Victory, in which his friend Bette Davis appeared as a show of support for him.

Perhaps his best film in a studio other than Warner Bros. was The Brave One (1956) about a Mexican boy who must rescue his bull from a brutal fight against a top matador, which earned the then-blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo an Oscar for his original screenplay, despite being a box office failure.

Biopics directed by Rapper include: The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944), Rhapsody in Blue (1945),[1] Pontius Pilate (co-director, 1962), The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970), and his last film, Born Again (1978), about convicted Watergate conspirator and former Richard Nixon aide Charles Colson.