William Gray (screenwriter)
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William Gray is a Canadian screenwriter. He won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 1980 supernatural horror film The Changeling, which he co-wrote with Diana Maddox.[1]
Born in Toronto, Gray worked as a rock music critic for the Toronto Sun before beginning a career in insurance.[2] He was later hired by Paul Lynch to write the screenplay for the sports drama Blood and Guts (1978).[3]
Gray co-wrote the screenplay for the supernatural horror film The Changeling (1980) with Diana Maddox.[2] Gray and Maddox won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Changeling.[2]
Gray worked as a screenwriter for several other projects for director Paul Lynch, including the slasher film Prom Night (1980), and the horror films Humongous (1982) and Cross Country (1983).[3] In 1984, he wrote the screenplay for the science fiction film The Philadelphia Experiment with Michael Hanover, followed by Black Moon Rising (1986), which he co-wrote with John Carpenter and Desmond Nakano.[3]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Blood and Guts | [3] | |
| 1980 | The Changeling | Co-written with Diana Maddox | [2] |
| Prom Night | [2] | ||
| 1981 | An Eye for an Eye | ||
| 1982 | Humongous | [3] | |
| 1983 | Cross Country | Co-written with John Hunter | [3] |
| 1984 | Black Moon Rising | Co-written with Michael Janover | [3] |
| 1986 | The Philadelphia Experiment | Co-written with John Carpenter and Desmond Nakano | [4] |
| 1987 | The Abduction of Kari Swenson | Television film | |
| 1999 | Killer Deal | Television film | |
| 2008 | Journey to the Center of the Earth | Television film; co-written with Tom Baum | [3] |