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Ray Connolly
British writer
Ray Connolly | |
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| Born | () 4 December (age&#;84) Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | Author, journalist and screenwriter |
Ray Connolly (born 4 December )[1] is a British writer.
He is best known for his journalism and for writing the screenplays for the films That'll Be the Day and its sequel Stardust, for which he won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Screenplay award.[2][3]
Early life
Connolly was born and brought up in Lancashire.[4] He was educated at West Park Catholic Grammar School (St.
Ray connolly biography
Helens), Ormskirk Grammar School, and the London School of Economics (LSE),[5] where he read social anthropology. There, he edited the LSE magazine Clare Market Review and was an associate editor of the student film magazine Motion.
Career
After entering journalism as a graduate trainee at the Liverpool Daily Post, Connolly then moved to the London Evening Standard where he inter