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Ray Connolly
Writer 85 years old

Ray Connolly

St Helens, Lancashire, UK

Ray Connolly 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.

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Stardust

Stardust

Michael Apted 1974 1h 47m

Jim MacLaine is now enjoying the nomadic 'gigs and groupies' life on tour with his band. When he achieves all his wildest dreams of international stardom, the sweet taste of success begins to turn sour.

That'll Be the Day

That'll Be the Day

Claude Whatham 1973 1h 27m

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home.

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