Richard Gray
Birthdate: April 25, 1980 (46 Years Old)
Birthplace: Melbourne, Australia
Richard Gray is an Australian director/writer/producer who broke through to the feature filmmaking space with the romantic adventure, Summer Coda (2010), starring Rachael Taylor, Alex Dimitriades, and Daniel Frederiksen, and which premiered at the Melbourne Film Festival. Gray was director/co-writer/producer of his second feature, the time-loop horror movie, Mine Games (2012), with Joseph Cross, Rebecca Da Costa, and Briana Evigan, and released in the U.S. after premiering at the Melbourne Film Festival.
Gray was director/co-writer of the widely panned Australian rules football movie, Blinder (2013), with Jack Thompson, Oliver Ackland, Josh Helman, Anna Hutchison, and Rose McIver, and released by Well Go USA (U.S.)/Revival Film Company (Australia), which also produced. Gray was director only of his first American film production, the sports-drugs thriller, The Lookalike (2014), co-starring Justin Long (who also was a producer), Jerry O’Connell, Gillian Jacobs, Scottie Thompson, Gina Gershon, Steven Bauer, John Savage and Luis Guzman, produced by Yellow Brick Films/Emedia Films and released in the U.S. by Well Go USA.
Richard Gray’s second U.S. production as director only was the Alaska-set drama, Sugar Mountain (2016), starring Cary Elwes, Jason Momoa, Drew Roy, Haley Webb, Shane Coffey, Melora Walters and Anna Hutchison, and released by Screen Media. Gray was director/producer of the American-produced horror movie, Broken Ghost (2017), co-starring Autry Haydon-Wilson, Scottie Thompson, Nick Farnell and Joy Brunson, and produced by Yellow Brick Films.
Gray was director of the failed historical drama, Robert the Bruce (2019), with Angus Macfadyen, Jared Harris, Anna Hutchison and Patrick Fugit, whose planned U.S. theatrical release by Screen Media Films was cancelled during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then Gray as director/producer turned to the Western genre for his poorly reviewed Murder at Yellowstone City (2022), co-starring Gabriel Byrne, Thomas Jane, Isaiah Mustafa, Anna Camp, Nat Wolff and Richard Dreyfuss, and released in the U.S. by RLJ Entertainment.
Richard Gray stayed in Western mode as director/producer for the action movie, The Unholy Trinity (2024), co-starring Samuel L. Jackson, Brandon Lessard and Pierce Brosnan, and which premiered at the Zurich Film Festival and released wide by Saban Films/Roadside Attractions.
Personal life
Richard Gray was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, by his parents. Gray graduated from the School of Film and Television at Victorian College of the Arts. Gray has been married to screenwriting partner Michele Davis-Gray since 2009; the couple has two children.
Richard Gray Movies
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Murder at Yellowstone City
A former slave arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.
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Murder at Yellowstone City
A former slave arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.
Facts About Richard Gray
Horror Fans: Richard Gray has expressed nothing but admiration for fans of horror movies, observing that these fans “are more knowledgeable in their genre than anyone I’ve ever met.”
Project Greenlight: Gray won the runner-up slot in the 2005 edition of the Australian version of “Project Greenlight” for his screenplay, Summer Coda, which helped launch his professional career.
