Ray Connolly has written novels, movies, television films and series, radio plays, short stories and much journalism. Brought up in Lancashire, after graduating from the London School of Economics – where he read social anthropology – he began a career in journalism as a sub-editor at the Liverpool Daily Post. Between 1967 and 1973 he wrote a weekly interview column for the London Evening Standard – concentrating mainly on popular culture and music. Since then he has written for the Sunday Times, The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer and the Daily Mail.
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Working with producer David Puttnam, he wrote the original screenplays for the films That’ll Be The Day and Stardust, and wrote and directed the feature length documentary James Dean: The First American Teenager. He has also written for television, most notably the films Forever Young and Defrosting The Fridge, and the series Lytton’s Diary and Perfect Scoundrels. He also co-wrote the George Martin documentary trilogy about music, The Rhythm of Life, for BBC2.