Richard Gray (director)

Raised in Melbourne, Australia,{{cite web| url= http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/vanessa_mcmahon/mine_games_2012_interview_with_richard_gray| title='Mine Games' (2012); Interview with Richard Gray |publisher=FilmFestivals.com|first=Vanessa |last=McMahon|date= 9 June 2012|accessdate= 7 December 2016|archivedate=16 October 2015| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20151016221343/http://www.filmfestivals.com/blog/vanessa_mcmahon/mine_games_2012_interview_with_richard_gray| url-status=live|quote= Coming from Melbourne I've been attending the festival [there] for over ten years.}} Gray at age 15 began making short films and working in movie theaters in towns including Forest Hill and Chadstone, Victoria,{{cite web| url=http://screenanarchy.com/2010/08/miff2010-richard-gray-talks-up-his-hot-feature-debut-summer-coda.html|date=2 August 2010|title=MIFF2010: Richard Gray talks up his hot feature debut SUMMER CODA!|first=Simon |last=de Bruyn|publisher=ScreenAnarchy.com|accessdate= 7 December 2016| archivedate= 7 December 2016| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20161207141921/http://screenanarchy.com/2010/08/miff2010-richard-gray-talks-up-his-hot-feature-debut-summer-coda.html |url-status=live}} eventually moving up to projectionist.{{cite web| url= http://www.thefilmpie.com/index.php/blog-59/38-blog/1852-talking-with-director-richard-gray-about-summer-coda|title=Talking with Director Richard Gray About 'Summer Coda'|date=15 October 2010 |accessdate= 7 December 2016|first= Matthew |last=Toomey|publisher=TheFilmPie.com| archivedate= 3 March 2016 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303072200/http://thefilmpie.com/index.php/blog-59/38-blog/1852-talking-with-director-richard-gray-about-summer-coda|url-status=live}} He earned a bachelor's degree in film from The University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts School of Film and Television{{cite web| url= http://www.yellowbrickfilms.net/team/| title=Team|publisher=Yellow Brick Films|accessdate=7 December 2016| archivedate= 5 May 2016| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160505180850/http://www.yellowbrickfilms.net/team/|url-status=live}} in 2003.{{cite web|url= https://www.quickflix.co.nz/News/Interviews/SummerCoda/7054| title=Interview – Richard Gray, 'Summer Coda'|first=Simon|last= Miraudo|date= 19 October 2010|accessdate= 7 December 2016|publisher=Quickflix.com| archivedate= 7 December 2016| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161207140604/https://www.quickflix.co.nz/News/Interviews/SummerCoda/7054|url-status=live}}

After writing the script for the romantic drama Summer Coda in 2004, he spent six years developing and seeking financing for the feature while working in television, including producing and directing the Lifestyle Channel cooking show Stefano’s Cooking Paradiso, starring Stefano de Pieri. In 2005, the script was runner-up in the reality-television screenwriting competition Project Greenlight Australia. He eventually completed Summer Coda, which was released theatrically in 2010, and has gone on to make four additional features, primarily thrillers, through 2016.

Richard Gray was married to his wife Michele in Mildura, Victoria, Australia, in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3035728.htm|title=Summer Coda I/V| work=At the Movies with Margaret & David| publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=20 October 2010|access-date= 7 December 2016|archive-date= 11 May 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160511080412/http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s3035728.htm|url-status=dead}} Archive of text portion only. They have two children together.

• Summer Coda (2010, director)
• Mine Games (2012, director)
• Blinder (2013, director, writer)
• The Lookalike (2014, director, producer)
• Sugar Mountain (2016, director, producer)
• Broken Ghost (2018, director, producer)
• Robert the Bruce (2019, director)
• Murder at Yellowstone City (2022, director)
• The Unholy Trinity (2024, director)

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