Jack Rapke: Making Award-Winning Films
JACK RAPKE is a film producer whose first production was the award-winning “Cast Away,” starring Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
He is the former chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Rapke has produced numerous award-winning films including “Flight,” starring Denzel Washington, which was nominated for two Academy Awards; The Walk,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt; “Allied,” starring Brad Pitt; “Welcome to Marwen” starring Steve Carell; and many more.
If It Works, It’s Good
After beating three types of advanced cancer throughout his life and living well beyond dire medical prognoses, filmmaker ALAN METTER, who came into prominence directing Rodney Dangerfield in the l986 comedy classic, Back to School, called it a wrap. He was 77.
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Remembering Alan Metter – Film Director
ALAN METTER (1942-2020) was a film director whose most notable credits include “Back to School,” starring Rodney Dangerfield and Sally Kellerman; “Girls Just Want to Have Fun,” starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt; “Working Tra$h,” starring George Carlin and Ben Stiller; and “Moving,” starring Richard Pryor and Randy Quaid. He also produced and directed the 1983 television special “The Winds of Whoopie” for Steve Martin.
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