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name: "Anthony Ray"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 November 1937"
died: "29 June 2018"
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average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:13:35.637254+00:00"
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# Anthony Ray

Producer. Born 24 November 1937 in Washington, D.C.. Died 29 June 2018.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 November 1937, Washington, D.C.
- **Died:** 29 June 2018
- **Also known as:** Tony Ray, Anthony M. Ray
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Ray_(producer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15783626, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712743/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/146708

## Biography

Anthony Ray (24 November 1937 – 29 June 2018) was an American actor, assistant director, producer and production manager. Born in Washington, D.C., he was the son of director Nicholas Ray and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He began his career as an actor, appearing in films such as *Shadows* (1958) and *Men in War* (1957), and later worked extensively as an assistant director on titles including *Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice* (1969), *Cactus Flower* (1969) and *Harry and Tonto* (1974).

Ray served as producer on several Paul Mazursky films, including *Next Stop, Greenwich Village* (1976) and *An Unmarried Woman* (1978), for which he shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He also worked as executive producer on *The Rose* (1979) and held production management roles on films such as *Freebie and the Bean* (1974) and *Turk 182!* (1985). He was executive in charge of East Coast production for 20th Century Fox and later taught at film workshops in Maine.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *An Unmarried Woman* (1978), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/an-unmarried-woman.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ghosts Can't Do It* (1989), Production Manager
- *Turk 182!* (1985), Production Manager
- *Without a Trace* (1983), Unit Production Manager
- *Soup for One* (1982), Unit Production Manager
- *Willie & Phil* (1980), Unit Production Manager, Producer
- *The Rose* (1979), Executive Producer
- *An Unmarried Woman* (1978), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/an-unmarried-woman.md)
- *Next Stop, Greenwich Village* (1976), Producer, Production Manager
- *Rancho Deluxe* (1975), Associate Producer
- *Freebie and the Bean* (1974), Unit Production Manager, Associate Producer
- *Harry and Tonto* (1974), Assistant Director, Associate Producer
- *The Spook Who Sat by the Door* (1973), as Shorty
- *Blume in Love* (1973), Associate Producer
- *Kid Blue* (1973), Assistant Director
- *Valdez Is Coming* (1971), First Assistant Director
- *Alex in Wonderland* (1970), Associate Producer, Assistant Director
- *The Liberation of L.B. Jones* (1970), Assistant Director
- *Cactus Flower* (1969), Assistant Director
- *Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice* (1969), Assistant Director
- *A Time for Killing* (1967), Assistant Director
- *The Big T.N.T. Show* (1965), Assistant Director
- *We Shall Return* (1963), as Ramon Rodriguez
- *War Hunt* (1962), as Pvt. Joshua Fresno
- *Shadows* (1960), as Tony
- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), series, as Newsboy — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)
- *A Cool Sound from Hell* (1959), as Charlie
- *Tombstone Territory* (1957), series, as Sam Edwards
- *The Restless Gun* (1957), series, as Charlie
- *Men in War* (1957), as Pvt. Penelli
- *The True Story of Jesse James* (1957), as Bob Younger

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1979: Best Picture (nominated), for *An Unmarried Woman*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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