Mike Gray

En 1965, Mike Gray y Jim Dennett cofundaron The Film Group , una productora cinematográfica de Chicago. En 1968, junto con el editor Howard Alk , produjeron el premiado documental American Revolution 2 (1969), seguido de The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971). The Film Group también estuvo detrás de la serie educativa de siete partes "Urban Crisis and the New Militants", que consiste principalmente en imágenes filmadas durante la producción de American Revolution 2 , pero que también incluye imágenes de miembros de los Panteras Negras de Chicago (incluido el futuro congresista Bobby Rush ) y una marcha por los derechos civiles de 1966 en Cicero, Illinois . Esta serie se puede ver en el sitio web de Chicago Film Archives y en su canal de YouTube .

After moving to California, Gray shot The Gift (1973), a documentary about the life and art of Marc Chagall then co-wrote, with T. S. Cook and James Bridges, the screenplay for the nuclear thriller The China Syndrome (1979), which film became notable for opening 12 days before the Three Mile Island accident (nuclear reactor meltdown). He also wrote and directed Wavelength (1983), an independent science fiction film starring Robert Carradine, Cherie Currie, and Keenan Wynn, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream.

Gray next co-created the television series Starman (1986–87). Following Starman, he became series writer/producer for the 1988–89 season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Gray was a second unit director on The Fugitive (1993) and acted as Swizlard in Chain Reaction (1996). Gray scripted The Zone and Forget About Yesterday in 2008, and was working with director Andy Davis and legendary filmmaker, Haskell Wexler on an as yet untitled documentary.

• The Warning (1982), about the accident at Three Mile Island
• Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out (1998)
• Angle of Attack (1992), a biography of Harrison Storms which also details America's race to the moon
• The Death Game: The Luck of the Draw (2003)
• Busted (2004), a book about the USA's drug war