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name: "Ray Stark"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "3 October 1914"
died: "17 January 2004"
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average_as: "producer"
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# Ray Stark

Producer. Born 3 October 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. Died 17 January 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 3 October 1914, New York City, New York, USA
- **Died:** 17 January 2004
- **Active:** 1968–1977
- **Also known as:** Raymond Otto Stark
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Average Fi1m score:** 69, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 70 (1), 1970s 68 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Stark, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466254, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823256/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/32790

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Funny Girl*](https://film.one/film/funny-girl.md) (70)
- **Tubi:** [*The Goodbye Girl*](https://film.one/film/the-goodbye-girl.md) (68)

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## Biography

Ray Stark (1915–2004) was an American film producer and talent agent. He began his career as a literary and theatrical agent before co-founding Seven Arts Productions in 1957 and later establishing Rastar Productions in 1966.

Stark produced the stage musical *Funny Girl* in 1964 and its 1968 film adaptation starring Barbra Streisand, whose mother Fanny Brice was Stark's mother-in-law. He produced numerous other films including *The Way We Were* (1973), *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), *Annie* (1982) and *Steel Magnolias* (1989), often collaborating with directors such as Herbert Ross and writers such as Neil Simon. In 1980 he received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), Fi1m 68, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-goodbye-girl.md)
- *Funny Girl* (1968), Fi1m 70, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/funny-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

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

- *Lost in Yonkers* (1993), Producer
- *Barbarians at the Gate* (1993), Producer
- *Steel Magnolias* (1989), Producer
- *Biloxi Blues* (1988), Producer
- *Brighton Beach Memoirs* (1986), Producer
- *The Slugger's Wife* (1985), Producer
- *The Toy* (1982), Producer
- *Annie* (1982), Producer
- *Seems Like Old Times* (1980), Producer
- *The Electric Horseman* (1979), Producer
- *Chapter Two* (1979), Producer
- *The Cheap Detective* (1978), Producer
- *California Suite* (1978), Producer
- *Casey's Shadow* (1978), Producer
- *The Goodbye Girl* (1977), Producer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/the-goodbye-girl.md)
- *Murder by Death* (1976), Producer
- *Robin and Marian* (1976), Executive Producer
- *The Black Bird* (1975), Executive Producer
- *The Sunshine Boys* (1975), Producer
- *Funny Lady* (1975), Producer
- *The Way We Were* (1973), Producer
- *Fat City* (1972), Producer
- *To Find a Man* (1972), Executive Producer
- *The Owl and the Pussycat* (1970), Producer
- *Funny Girl* (1968), Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/funny-girl.md)
- *This is Streisand* (1968), Actor
- *Reflections in a Golden Eye* (1967), Producer
- *Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad* (1967), Producer
- *Arrivederci, Baby!* (1966), Producer
- *This Property Is Condemned* (1966), Producer
- *The Night of the Iguana* (1964), Producer
- *The World of Suzie Wong* (1960), Executive Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1978: Best Picture (nominated), for *The Goodbye Girl*
- 1969: Best Picture (nominated), for *Funny Girl*

### Other awards — 1 won, 1 nominated

- Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture 1983: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture (nominated), for *Annie*
- Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 1980: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (won)

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

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