Peter Rawley, a longtime talent agent for ICM Partners and former MGM executive, has died at the age of 85, according to his wife.
Rawley died Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his wife Betty Kaplan said Thursday.
Rawley was born in London in 1938 and earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Oxford University. After a career producing theater, he joined ICM predecessor CMA in 1966, where he would serve as managing director of the London office and head of European operations.
In 1972, Rawley became head of production for MGM Europe, where he produced “Ransom,” the first film about an airline hijacking starring Sean Connery. The film would later be released as “The Terrorist” by 20th Century Fox.
In 1978, he returned to ICM as executive vice president and head of international operations.
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Rawley died Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his wife Betty Kaplan said Thursday.
Rawley was born in London in 1938 and earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Oxford University. After a career producing theater, he joined ICM predecessor CMA in 1966, where he would serve as managing director of the London office and head of European operations.
In 1972, Rawley became head of production for MGM Europe, where he produced “Ransom,” the first film about an airline hijacking starring Sean Connery. The film would later be released as “The Terrorist” by 20th Century Fox.
In 1978, he returned to ICM as executive vice president and head of international operations.
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- 1/5/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Peter Rawley, a longtime talent agent and independent producer, died on Jan. 3, his wife and filmmaker Betty Kaplan announced. He was 85.
At ICM, where he worked for 21 years in Los Angeles and London, Rawley played a key role in expanding the company’s operations worldwide, building businesses directly or through affiliates in China, Latin America, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere in Europe. In his global efforts and outreach, he helped establish new sources of talent and financing for the company. As a talent agent, he represented stars including Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Gere and Faye Dunaway.
Rawley was known for his innovative financing, packaging and distribution of films internationally. In the 1970s, he was one of the first in the industry to tap independent money largely from Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan for both Hollywood majors and independent companies. Concurrently, he began to finance and produce movies and television,...
At ICM, where he worked for 21 years in Los Angeles and London, Rawley played a key role in expanding the company’s operations worldwide, building businesses directly or through affiliates in China, Latin America, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere in Europe. In his global efforts and outreach, he helped establish new sources of talent and financing for the company. As a talent agent, he represented stars including Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Gere and Faye Dunaway.
Rawley was known for his innovative financing, packaging and distribution of films internationally. In the 1970s, he was one of the first in the industry to tap independent money largely from Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan for both Hollywood majors and independent companies. Concurrently, he began to finance and produce movies and television,...
- 1/5/2023
- by EJ Panaligan
- Variety Film + TV
Peter Rawley, a longtime ICM agent in Los Angeles and London who served as head of European production for MGM and produced independent films, has died. He was 85.
Rawley died Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his wife of 33 years, filmmaker Betty Kaplan, announced.
Most recently, Rawley produced and Kaplan directed and co-wrote the 2021 romantic thriller Simone, also known as Art of Love. Based on a book by Puerto Rican writer Eduardo Lalo, it stars Esai Morales and Caterina Murino and is being distributed by the Samuel Goldwyn Co.
In creating new sources of talent and financing, Rawley played a vital role in expanding ICM’s operations worldwide as he helped build businesses directly or through affiliates in China, Latin America, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere in Europe, often for the first time.
At the same time, he represented actors including Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Gere and Faye Dunaway.
Rawley died Tuesday in San Juan, Puerto Rico, his wife of 33 years, filmmaker Betty Kaplan, announced.
Most recently, Rawley produced and Kaplan directed and co-wrote the 2021 romantic thriller Simone, also known as Art of Love. Based on a book by Puerto Rican writer Eduardo Lalo, it stars Esai Morales and Caterina Murino and is being distributed by the Samuel Goldwyn Co.
In creating new sources of talent and financing, Rawley played a vital role in expanding ICM’s operations worldwide as he helped build businesses directly or through affiliates in China, Latin America, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere in Europe, often for the first time.
At the same time, he represented actors including Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Gere and Faye Dunaway.
- 1/5/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Peter Rawley, a longtime ICM talent agent who repped Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Gere and Faye Dunaway and also was head of European production for MGM and a successful indie producer, died January 3. He was 85.
His passing was confirmed by his wife of 33 years, filmmaker Betty Kaplan, who did not give a cause of death.
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Working in Los Angeles and London, Rawley played a key role in expanding ICM’s operations worldwide, building businesses directly or through affiliates in China, Latin America, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere in Europe.
Rawley was known for his innovative financing, packaging and distribution of motion pictures internationally.
His passing was confirmed by his wife of 33 years, filmmaker Betty Kaplan, who did not give a cause of death.
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Working in Los Angeles and London, Rawley played a key role in expanding ICM’s operations worldwide, building businesses directly or through affiliates in China, Latin America, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere in Europe.
Rawley was known for his innovative financing, packaging and distribution of motion pictures internationally.
- 1/5/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Art of Love, the romantic drama from writer-director Betty Kaplan that stars Esai Morales and Tigertail‘s Kunjue Li. It will now be released in domestic theaters and on digital July 22.
The film was originally titled Simone, which is the name of the 2013 Eduardo Lalo novel on which it is based. Set in Puerto Rico, the plot centers on a mysterious, erotic and haunting love story of a writer-professor at a leading university and an aspiring student from the immigrant Chinese community.
Caterina Murino, Joanna Cassidy Braulio Castillo, Zoribel Fonalledas, Bruno Irizarry, Eli Cay, Mélanie Ramos and Aris Mejias also star in the pic, which was released in Puerto Rico last fall.
Peter Rawley and Frances Lausell are producers; executive producers are the Sifre Group, Morris Ruskin, Robert Katz and the Phoenix Fund in Puerto Rico.
Check out the trailer...
The film was originally titled Simone, which is the name of the 2013 Eduardo Lalo novel on which it is based. Set in Puerto Rico, the plot centers on a mysterious, erotic and haunting love story of a writer-professor at a leading university and an aspiring student from the immigrant Chinese community.
Caterina Murino, Joanna Cassidy Braulio Castillo, Zoribel Fonalledas, Bruno Irizarry, Eli Cay, Mélanie Ramos and Aris Mejias also star in the pic, which was released in Puerto Rico last fall.
Peter Rawley and Frances Lausell are producers; executive producers are the Sifre Group, Morris Ruskin, Robert Katz and the Phoenix Fund in Puerto Rico.
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- 6/8/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Kunjue Li is set to play the titular role in Betty Kaplan’s forthcoming film Simone. Written and directed by Kaplan, Li will star opposite Esai Morales in the mysterious, erotic and haunting love story between a writer/professor at Puerto Rico’s leading University and an aspiring artist from the immigrant Chinese community.
Li can be seen in Alan Yang’s forthcoming drama Tigertail. Inspired by Yang’s family, Tigertail touches on themes of regret, longing, passion, and repression while spanning continents and generations, from 1950’s Taiwan to present-day New York City. The protagonist Grover ventures to the states with a women he doesn’t connect with.
Li will play young Zhenzhen, a woman in Taiwan who was always quiet, polite, and out of the way. She finds moving to America with Grover a difficult experience until she meets her friend Peijing and begins to consider her own independence and self-worth.
Li can be seen in Alan Yang’s forthcoming drama Tigertail. Inspired by Yang’s family, Tigertail touches on themes of regret, longing, passion, and repression while spanning continents and generations, from 1950’s Taiwan to present-day New York City. The protagonist Grover ventures to the states with a women he doesn’t connect with.
Li will play young Zhenzhen, a woman in Taiwan who was always quiet, polite, and out of the way. She finds moving to America with Grover a difficult experience until she meets her friend Peijing and begins to consider her own independence and self-worth.
- 2/10/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Italian actress Caterina Murino, who charmed Daniel Craig as James Bond back in 2006 in Casino Royale, has just landed the role to play a former Colombian presidential candidate. According to THR, Murino will play Ingrid Betancourt in the English language film In Search of Ingrid.
The film is based on two books by Betancourt’s former husband Juan Carlos Lecompete, which details “what happened when Betancourt, a senator in Colombia and at the time a candidate for president, was taken hostage by terrorists and held in a South American jungle from 2002 to 2008 before being rescued by Colombian security forces.” Lecompete will be played by popular Mexican actor and photographer Valentino Lanus. Lanus will also be producing the project, along with Peter Rawley and Robert Katz.
Betty Kaplan is set to direct, as well as write the screenplay. Kaplan has done several adaptation work in the past — her films Of Love and Shadows,...
The film is based on two books by Betancourt’s former husband Juan Carlos Lecompete, which details “what happened when Betancourt, a senator in Colombia and at the time a candidate for president, was taken hostage by terrorists and held in a South American jungle from 2002 to 2008 before being rescued by Colombian security forces.” Lecompete will be played by popular Mexican actor and photographer Valentino Lanus. Lanus will also be producing the project, along with Peter Rawley and Robert Katz.
Betty Kaplan is set to direct, as well as write the screenplay. Kaplan has done several adaptation work in the past — her films Of Love and Shadows,...
- 1/11/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
[1] Though everyone knows Marilyn Monroe is Lindsay Lohan's deceased classic Hollywood legend of choice, it may be Elizabeth Taylor she'll be playing next. Lohan has entered early talks to star in the Lifetime original movie Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story, about the tempestuous, Vatican-condemned romance between Taylor and actor Richard Burton. Oh boy. I can't do better than this old quote from Slate [2] (via Deadline [3]) about the things the two had in common, so I won't try: "Both had domineering stage mothers, little semblance of a real childhood, fame from a young age, substance abuse issues, public emotional outpourings, and copious amounts of tabloid drama. The key difference, though, is that Elizabeth Taylor had a true record of achievement before she became the most notorious movie star in America." Even with those similarities, it's tough to see how casting the troubled, famously unreliable Lohan could possibly seem like a good idea.
- 1/11/2012
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Almost a Woman
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
Based on the second memoir by acclaimed writer Esmeralda Santiago, "Almost a Woman" is a historically vivid but dramatically stunted coming-of-age drama.
Directed by Betty Kaplan, the film follows the cultural trek taken by young "Negi" Santiago (nicely played by newcomer Ana Maria Lagasca) from her beloved Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, N.Y., with her tireless mother, Mami Wanda De Jesus), and her numerous brothers and sisters.
Finding herself constantly playing various roles in her life -- from obedient Puerto Rican daughter to young American woman of the early '60s -- it's not surprising that Negi, with some encouragement from her school guidance counselor (Cliff DeYoung), is accepted into the prestigious Performing Arts High School of Manhattan.
The elements of a good story are all there, but they remain compartmentalized, waiting to be ticked off by Venezuela-born Kaplan like items on a large grocery list. Without a stronger dramatic undercurrent, "Woman" is left with the look and feel of a standard-issue TV miniseries, albeit one with standout performances by Lagasca and the always reliable De Jesus, whose world-weary demeanor is put to particularly effective use here.
Based on the second memoir by acclaimed writer Esmeralda Santiago, "Almost a Woman" is a historically vivid but dramatically stunted coming-of-age drama.
Directed by Betty Kaplan, the film follows the cultural trek taken by young "Negi" Santiago (nicely played by newcomer Ana Maria Lagasca) from her beloved Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, N.Y., with her tireless mother, Mami Wanda De Jesus), and her numerous brothers and sisters.
Finding herself constantly playing various roles in her life -- from obedient Puerto Rican daughter to young American woman of the early '60s -- it's not surprising that Negi, with some encouragement from her school guidance counselor (Cliff DeYoung), is accepted into the prestigious Performing Arts High School of Manhattan.
The elements of a good story are all there, but they remain compartmentalized, waiting to be ticked off by Venezuela-born Kaplan like items on a large grocery list. Without a stronger dramatic undercurrent, "Woman" is left with the look and feel of a standard-issue TV miniseries, albeit one with standout performances by Lagasca and the always reliable De Jesus, whose world-weary demeanor is put to particularly effective use here.
- 8/5/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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