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name: "James Gray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/james-gray"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "14 April 1969"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T20:20:44.420295+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# James Gray

Producer and director. Born 14 April 1969 in New York City, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 14 April 1969, New York City, New York, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gray_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q630845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0336695/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20561

## Coming up

- *Paper Tiger* (2026-11-12), Director

## Biography

James Gray is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in New York City on 14 April 1969 and studied at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His feature debut was the crime drama *Little Odessa* (1994).

Gray's subsequent films include *We Own the Night* (2007), *Two Lovers* (2008), *The Immigrant* (2013), *The Lost City of Z* (2016), *Ad Astra* (2019), for which he is also credited as producer and co-writer, and *Armageddon Time* (2022). Five of his features have competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ad Astra* (2019), Fi1m 78, Screenplay, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/ad-astra.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Paper Tiger* (2026), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Short Cuts: James Gray's "We Own the Night"* (2026), Original Film Writer
- *Armageddon Time* (2022), Writer, Director, Producer
- *Windfall* (2022), Thanks
- *Le Nozze di Figaro* (2019), Stage Director, Director
- *Ad Astra* (2019), Screenplay, Producer, Director — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/ad-astra.md)
- *Diane* (2019), Thanks
- *The Lost City of Z* (2017), Director, Screenplay, Producer
- *Swift Current* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Afro-Woman: 2016 CE* (2016), Thanks
- *A Timewatch Guide* (2015), series, Director
- *The Rover* (2014), Thanks
- *Once Upon a Time...Little Odessa* (2014), Acting
- *The Red Road* (2014), series, Director
- *The Immigrant* (2013), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Blood Ties* (2013), Executive Producer, Thanks, Screenplay
- *Lucky Boy* (2011), Thanks
- *I'm Still Here* (2010), Thanks
- *Digging for Britain* (2010), series, Director, Producer
- *Two Lovers* (2008), Director, Writer, Producer
- *We Own the Night* (2007), Director, Screenplay
- *The Yards* (2000), Director, Writer
- *Little Odessa* (1994), Director, Writer
- *Mr. Petrified Forrest* (1992), Editor
- *Cowboys and Angels* (1991), Director
- *Mayday 109*, Director, Screenplay
- *Untitled James Grey Film*, Director, Writer
- *Kill Your Darlings*, Director
- *The Sun Also Rises*, Director
- *Ezekiel Moss*, Director, Screenplay
- *Mailer*, series, Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-a5646a17b997.jpg) James Gray — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/MJK34334_James_Gray_%28The_Lost_City_Of_Z%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK34334_James_Gray_%28The_Lost_City_Of_Z%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-a7da3662d70b.jpg) James Gray — Image via TMDB
- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-df4599a9d0eb.jpg) James Gray — Image via TMDB
- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-6c36007f4d71.jpg) James Gray — Image via TMDB
- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-abbb625eeeb3.jpg) James Gray — Image via TMDB
- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-8b9023e2f58f.jpg) James Gray — Image via TMDB
- ![James Gray](https://film.one/media/person/691973/gallery-430bb124722f.jpg) James Gray — Image via TMDB

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