Ron Bass

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AKA: Ronald Jay Bass
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 03/26/1942
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

biography

Although his ability to "crack" almost any story into the conventional Aristotelian three acts and continually raise the stakes throughout has made Ronald Bass arguably the most bankable screenwriter in Hollywood, the writer values his structural abilities less than his knack for giving a film "heart" and never hesitates to go for big emotion. The Los Angeles-born Bass began writing at the age of six while bedridden with a childhood illness but initially decided on a more practical career after his college English teacher looked at his novel "Voleur" and informed him it wouldn't get published. Continued

Credits

Executive Producer
2009
Screenplay
2009
screenplay
2005
Producer
2005
Screenplay
2000
Producer
2000
Screenplay
1999
Producer
1999
Executive Producer
1999
Screenplay
1999
From Story
1999
Screenplay
1998
Executive Producer
1998
screenplay
1998
Screenplay
1998
Executive Producer
1998
Executive Producer
1998
Screenplay
1997
Producer
1997
Screenplay
1995
Executive Producer
1995
screenplay
1995
Screenplay
1993
Producer
1993
Screenplay
1988
Screenplay
Screenplay
screenplay
Executive Producer
Source Material (from novel)
Screenplay
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Co-Producer

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Completed first novel, Voleur by age 17; Bass responded to his English teacher's critique by burning his manuscript
 
Practiced entertainment law for 17 years
1974 
Returned to the novel he wrote as a teen and began to rewrite the novel from memory
1978 
First novel published, "The Perfect Thief"
1984 
Quit practicing law when FOX signed him to write two scripts at $125,000 each; neither was ever produced
Continued

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