Ray Errol Fox
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Ray Errol Fox is an American journalist
who has written and produced award winning documentaries, written books, and composed.
Ray Errol Fox's novel career in journalism and the arts has resulted in a wide range of distinguished achievements. His film, "Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future," which he wrote and produced, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subjects Documentary
in 1990. "Freedom to Hate," a one-hour film narrated by Dan Rather
and introduced by Jack Lemmon
that Fox directed as well, was selected an Outstanding Documentary of the Year by the Motion Picture Academy Foundation, awarded the CINE Golden Eagle and the American Film and Video Association's Blue Ribbon, was presented by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus to members and staff of the U.S. Congress, and has been widely used by emigration lawyers to protect political refugees from deportation
and harm.
His book, "Angela Ambrosia", published by Knopf, was a Literary Guild Selection, Pocket Books paperback, Xerox Education edition, Look Magazine feature and a newspaper supplement. A recognized specialist in Middle East analysis, he contributed to The New York Times
, Los Angeles Times
, Boston Globe and numerous other publications. His New York Times article on Lebanon's Major Sa'ad Haddad was read into the U.S. Congressional Record.
Fox has appeared on The Today Show, CNN
, others - and before a U.S. congressional committee re: hate crime
s in Russia. He contributed two films, narrated by Larry King
, to an International Satellite Broadcast hosted by King—and co-directed a documentary featuring the Dalai Lama
in Mongolia. His additional documentary credits include: writer of "The Other War," featuring Eli Wallach
and Anne Jackson
; writer and producer of "Sammy Davis: Mission of Love"; and writer-producer-director of "Echoes of Remembrance", featuring a uniquely emotional Robert Maxwell
and "Forward with New York" for the New York Daily News
.
Fox was the co-teleplay writer and executive producer of "Family Dr.", a CBS TV film (2003) and wrote "Under Pegasus," a feature film in development based on the book by David Beckman
. Prior to these, he wrote a screenplay (Miramax) based on the life of Moe Berg
and contributed 'Additional Material' to two films, "Hot Shot" and "The Stranger."
He has served as a theater, film and dance critic (Spectrum, New Republic et al. and on radio) - and contributed cultural and entertainment articles to countless newspapers and magazines. His exclusive account of a trip accompanying Elizabeth Taylor
to Israel
was a cover feature in "The Ladies' Home Journal"; "The Other Side of Goldie Hawn" was a cover story for "Parade"; and a 'reminiscence' with Sammy Davis, Jr.
appeared in a New York Times Sunday supplement. An exclusive interview with Armand Hammer
was featured in "Aretè" and a cover story featuring Goldie Hawn
, Kurt Russell
and Sherry Lansing
accompanied the premier issue of "Dimension."
Fox, who began his professional writing career as a lyricist, provided the lyrics for motion picture title themes including Resnais' award-winning "The War Is Over" and Fellini's "The Clowns." For theater, he wrote the lyrics for the Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window": the Theatreworks and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera productions of "Young Ben Franklin"; and contributed material to "Upstairs at the Downstairs," "Broadway Jukebox" and numerous other shows and reviews.
One of his most popular works is "The Confidence Man", a musical based on the Herman Melville
novel of the same name. Ray Fox wrote the book and lyrics and Jim Steinman
wrote the music.
It was originally performed as a cabaret piece at the Manhattan Theater Club. A full staging, presented as a World Premier, followed at the Queens College Theatre. It was performed again in 2004 in Cincinnati, OH by the Beechmont Players, Inc. with an updated script and score.
Fox has also been responsible for several signature themes, including "Here's to Love" (Shields & Yarnell, CBS TV) and wrote "Children to Children" (lyric) for the 150 young professionals of the Children to Children's Chorus (debuted at the Live Aid Concert). His song lyrics endure on many recordings.
He wrote the play, "Spy-Catcher/The Unbelievably True Story of Moe Berg".
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
who has written and produced award winning documentaries, written books, and composed.
Ray Errol Fox's novel career in journalism and the arts has resulted in a wide range of distinguished achievements. His film, "Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future," which he wrote and produced, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subjects Documentary
Documentary
A documentary is a creative work of non-fiction, including:* Documentary film, including television* Radio documentary* Documentary photographyRelated terms include:...
in 1990. "Freedom to Hate," a one-hour film narrated by Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
and introduced by Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...
that Fox directed as well, was selected an Outstanding Documentary of the Year by the Motion Picture Academy Foundation, awarded the CINE Golden Eagle and the American Film and Video Association's Blue Ribbon, was presented by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus to members and staff of the U.S. Congress, and has been widely used by emigration lawyers to protect political refugees from deportation
Deportation
Deportation means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. Today it often refers to the expulsion of foreign nationals whereas the expulsion of nationals is called banishment, exile, or penal transportation...
and harm.
His book, "Angela Ambrosia", published by Knopf, was a Literary Guild Selection, Pocket Books paperback, Xerox Education edition, Look Magazine feature and a newspaper supplement. A recognized specialist in Middle East analysis, he contributed to The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, Boston Globe and numerous other publications. His New York Times article on Lebanon's Major Sa'ad Haddad was read into the U.S. Congressional Record.
Fox has appeared on The Today Show, CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, others - and before a U.S. congressional committee re: hate crime
Hate crime
In crime and law, hate crimes occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, social status or...
s in Russia. He contributed two films, narrated by Larry King
Larry King
Lawrence Harvey "Larry" King is an American television and radio host whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys and ten Cable ACE Awards....
, to an International Satellite Broadcast hosted by King—and co-directed a documentary featuring the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
in Mongolia. His additional documentary credits include: writer of "The Other War," featuring Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach is an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...
and Anne Jackson
Anne Jackson
Anne Jackson is an American actress of television, stage, and screen.-Life and career:Jackson, the youngest of three sisters, was born in Millvale, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Stella Germaine and John Ivan Jackson, a barber who ran a beauty parlor...
; writer and producer of "Sammy Davis: Mission of Love"; and writer-producer-director of "Echoes of Remembrance", featuring a uniquely emotional Robert Maxwell
Robert Maxwell
Ian Robert Maxwell MC was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and former Member of Parliament , who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire...
and "Forward with New York" for the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
.
Fox was the co-teleplay writer and executive producer of "Family Dr.", a CBS TV film (2003) and wrote "Under Pegasus," a feature film in development based on the book by David Beckman
David Beckman
David Beckman is a former Canadian Football League head coach.Beckman began coaching as an assistant at his alma mater Baldwin-Wallace. From there he coached at University of Evansville and spent the years of 1973-1978 with the Iowa Hawkeyes.The next six years Beckman spent in the front office of...
. Prior to these, he wrote a screenplay (Miramax) based on the life of Moe Berg
Moe Berg
Morris "Moe" Berg was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II...
and contributed 'Additional Material' to two films, "Hot Shot" and "The Stranger."
He has served as a theater, film and dance critic (Spectrum, New Republic et al. and on radio) - and contributed cultural and entertainment articles to countless newspapers and magazines. His exclusive account of a trip accompanying Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
was a cover feature in "The Ladies' Home Journal"; "The Other Side of Goldie Hawn" was a cover story for "Parade"; and a 'reminiscence' with Sammy Davis, Jr.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities....
appeared in a New York Times Sunday supplement. An exclusive interview with Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer was an American business tycoon most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran for decades, though he was known as well as for his art collection, his philanthropy, and for his close ties to the Soviet Union.Thanks to business interests around the world and his...
was featured in "Aretè" and a cover story featuring Goldie Hawn
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969...
, Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell
Kurt Vogel Russell is an American television and film actor. His first acting roles were as a child in television series, including a lead role in the Western series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters...
and Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lansing
Sherry Lansing is a former actress and American film studio executive. She is former CEO of Paramount Pictures, and when president of production at 20th Century Fox was the first woman to head a Hollywood studio In 1996, she became the first woman named Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of...
accompanied the premier issue of "Dimension."
Fox, who began his professional writing career as a lyricist, provided the lyrics for motion picture title themes including Resnais' award-winning "The War Is Over" and Fellini's "The Clowns." For theater, he wrote the lyrics for the Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window": the Theatreworks and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera productions of "Young Ben Franklin"; and contributed material to "Upstairs at the Downstairs," "Broadway Jukebox" and numerous other shows and reviews.
One of his most popular works is "The Confidence Man", a musical based on the Herman Melville
Herman Melville
Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
novel of the same name. Ray Fox wrote the book and lyrics and Jim Steinman
Jim Steinman
James Richard "Jim" Steinman is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer...
wrote the music.
It was originally performed as a cabaret piece at the Manhattan Theater Club. A full staging, presented as a World Premier, followed at the Queens College Theatre. It was performed again in 2004 in Cincinnati, OH by the Beechmont Players, Inc. with an updated script and score.
Fox has also been responsible for several signature themes, including "Here's to Love" (Shields & Yarnell, CBS TV) and wrote "Children to Children" (lyric) for the 150 young professionals of the Children to Children's Chorus (debuted at the Live Aid Concert). His song lyrics endure on many recordings.
He wrote the play, "Spy-Catcher/The Unbelievably True Story of Moe Berg".
External links
- blog: Son fo the Cucumber King A New York Writer's Chronicles of Broadway, Hollywood, Politics and the Middle East.
- www.realmofdreams.com/confidenceman