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Home/People/Billy Ray
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Born
Sep 21, 1971
Age 54
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male

Career Highlights

3
Movies
0
TV Shows
6
Directed
IMDb Profile

Billy Ray

Writing

Biography
Billy Ray (born 1962) is an American screenwriter and film director. He began writing for television and movies in 1994 with Color of Night. He has written numerous films, including the first Hunger Games film (2012), Richard Jewell (2019), and Captain Phillips (2013), earning an Oscar nomination for the latter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Billy Ray (screenwriter), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games poster

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

as Self - Screenwriter
2012
Tales from the Script poster

Tales from the Script

as Self
2009
The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray poster

The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray

as Himself
2007