Matthew Rapf

Matthew Wallace Rapf was a television producer and writer. He was born in New York City, New York on October 22nd, 1920. After producing a few films in the 1950s, Matthew got his start in television as a producer on The Loretta Young Show where he was credited in 25 episodes. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he worked on shows such as The Great Gildersleeve, Frontier, The Web and Jefferson Drum. Beginning in 1961, he was a producer on Ben Casey, eventually working his way up to an executive producer credit in 1963. In the 1970s, Matthew Rapf was an executive producer on shows such as Doctors' Hospital, Switch and Kojak. Matthew Rapf passed away in Los Angeles, California on December 11th, 1991 at the age of 71.