Biography for
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Date of Birth

26 March 1942, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Ronald Jay Bass

Spouse

Christine Ann Bass

(12 June 1973 - present) 2 children

Trivia

Carolco Pictures paid him $2 million for an adaptation of T.R. Wright's supernatural thriller, "Manhattan Ghost Story", in 1990.

A prolific Oscar-winning screenwriter. He is in such demand, that he employs a staff to help him research his material.

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1997.

He wrote unproduced drafts of screenplays for "The Shipping News", "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly".

Did an uncredited rewrite of Always (1989) for Steven Spielberg.

Salary

Mozart and the Whale (2005)

$2,750,000