Mike Gray
Michael Gray (disambiguation)
Also recorded as Harold Michael Gray
Mike Gray
- Name
- Mike Gray
- Birth Name
- Harold Michael Gray
- Born
- 26 October 1935
- Birthplace
- Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.
- Died
- 30 April 2013
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer
- Full name
- Harold Michael Gray.
- Nationality
- United States
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• Name — Mike Gray • Birth Name — Harold Michael Gray • Born — 26 October 1935 • Birthplace — Racine, Wisconsin, U.S. • Died — 30 April 2013 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Occupation — Director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer • Years Active — 1969-1996 Harold Michael Gray (October 26, 1935 – April 30, 2013) was an American writer, screenwriter, cinematographer, film producer and director.
Activism
Activism
Gray was President and Co-Founder of the Common Sense for Drug Policy Foundation. The organization produced ads with facts about the drug war, and Gray produced several Public Service Announcements on the topic.
Personal life
Personal life
Gray grew up in Indiana and graduated from Purdue University with a degree in engineering. He later lived in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Carol Dana Hirsch, a reporter for public radio. His son, Lucas, is a storyboard artist for The Simpsons.
Death
Death
Gray died at his desk April 30, 2013.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1935
Mike Gray born at Racine.
2013
Mike Gray died at Los Angeles.
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In 1965, Mike Gray and Jim Dennett co-founded The Film Group, a Chicago film production company. In 1968, the pair along with editor Howard Alk, produced the award-winning documentary American Revolution 2 (1969), followed by the trio's The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971). The Film Group was also behind the seven part educational series, "Urban Crisis and the New Militants", consisting primarily of footage shot during the production of American Revolution 2 but also includes footage of Chicago Black Panthers members (including future Congressman Bobby Rush) and a 1966 Civil Rights march in Cicero, Illinois. This series can be streamed on Chicago Film Archives' website and. After moving to California, Gray shot The Gift (1973), a documentary about the life and art of Marc Chagall then co-wrote, with T. S. Cook and James Bridges, the screenplay for the nuclear thriller The China Syndrome (1979), which film became notable for opening 12 days before the Three Mile Island accident (nuclear reactor meltdown). He also wrote and directed Wavelength (1983), an independent science fiction film starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. Gray next co-created the television series Starman (1986–87). Following Starman, he became series writer/producer for the 1988–89 season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gray was a second unit director on The Fugitive (1993) and acted as Swizlard in Chain Reaction (1996). Gray scripted The Zone and Forget About Yesterday in 2008, and was working with director Andy Davis and legendary filmmaker, Haskell Wexler on an as yet untitled documentary.
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- 1.Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay. Los Angeles Times. May 2, 2013.
- 2.Dembart, Lee. BOOK REVIEW : What It Took to Put Man on the Moon. Los Angeles Times. W. W. Norton & Company.
- 3.Random House. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. Publishers Weekly.
- 4.W. W. Norton & Company. Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon. Publishers Weekly.
- 5.Common Courage Press. Prison Nation: YES Magazine 2004. Human Rights Defense Center.
- 6.Busted Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs. Hachette Book Group.
- 7.H. Michael "Mike" Gray. Common Sense for Drug Policy.
- 8.The New York Times. Transcript of Mike Gray's Visit to the Drug Policy Forum.
- 9.Mike Gray (1935-2013): Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter and Filmmaker.
- 10.Lucas Gray Biography. IMDB.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Dembart, Lee. BOOK REVIEW : What It Took to Put Man on the Moon. Los Angeles Times. W. W. Norton & Company.
- Random House. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. Publishers Weekly.
- W. W. Norton & Company. Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon. Publishers Weekly.
- Common Courage Press. Prison Nation: YES Magazine 2004. Human Rights Defense Center.
- Busted Stone Cowboys, Narco-Lords and Washington's War on Drugs. Hachette Book Group.
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