- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- The Anteater
- Harry Rapf was born on October 16, 1880 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Brown of Harvard (1926), The Night Is Young (1935) and The Murder Man (1935). He was married to Clementine Uhlfelder. He died on February 6, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseClementine Uhlfelder(December 14, 1911 - February 6, 1949) (his death, 2 children)
- One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
- Father of Matthew Rapf, producer Maurice Rapf.
- One of the original top executives of the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer super studio in 1924, where he would remain for the remainder of his life. Rapf held the title of Production Supervisor in addition to acting as a line producer as well as one of Irving Thalberg's inner circle of supervisors. At the end of the reign of Louis B. Mayer, Rapf remained a Mayer loyalist and an enemy of MGM head Dore Schary.
- Nicknamed the "anteater" because of his pronounced curved proboscis.
- Before entering the film business, Rapf worked in vaudeville putting together traveling minstrel shows.
- [on a trip to Paris, when one of his companions remarked that she had been in Paris for three days and hadn't been to the Louvre yet] Yeah, I know, me too. It must be the water.
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