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Ronald Bass (Ronald Jay Bass) was born on 26 March, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American writer and producer. Discover Ronald Bass's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Ronald Jay Bass
Occupation Screenwriter, film producer
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 26 March, 1942
Birthday 26 March
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Christine Ann Thomas (m. 1978), Gail V. Weinstein (m. 1968–1978)

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Mozart and the Whale (2005)$2,750,000

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1942

Ronald Jay Bass (born March 26, 1942), sometimes credited as Ron Bass, is an American screenwriter and film producer.

He won an Academy Award for writing the screenplay for Barry Levinson's film Rain Man, and films that Bass is associated with are regularly nominated for multiple motion picture awards.

His films have grossed over $2 billion.

Bass was born in Los Angeles, California.

From the age of 3 to 11, Bass was afflicted with an undiagnosed condition that kept him bedridden.

His symptoms included respiratory problems and stomach pains with high fevers and nausea.

It was during this illness, at age six, that Bass is said to have started writing.

During his teens, Bass began work on a novel, which he entitled Voleur.

He completed this work at age 17 and showed it to his English teacher.

He took her critique of his first completed project quite hard.

She described the writing as very good, but she felt that it was too personal to be published.

Bass's response was to later burn his manuscript.

Later in life, Bass recalled "it was like the voice of God telling me I didn't have what it takes to be a writer, and I should find something practical to do with my life".

Bass would revisit his teenage writings later in life.

1949

The Lime referred to in the title is Harry Lime, the central mystery character of the 1949 motion picture The Third Man.

1967

Bass entered law studies, first at Stanford, then Yale, and finally at Harvard Law School, where he graduated in 1967 with a degree in law.

He seemed quite confident about his future prospects, saying, "When I learned there was such a thing as entertainment law, I thought, 'This is where I belong'".

Back in Los Angeles, Bass began a seventeen-year career practicing law in the entertainment business.

He was successful, and eventually rose to the level of partner in his law firm.

Bass has worked with his sister Diane Bass, who served as an uncredited technical consultant on the film Rain Man.

As he moved up the career ladder in law, the love of writing that Bass had acquired as a child never left him.

He started writing again, usually during the predawn hours before going to work.

Writing and working at unusual hours became a lifelong habit of his.

1974

In 1974, he began to rework his novel Voleur, apparently from memory, as he had burned the manuscript in a fit of pique when he was 17.

1978

In 1978, he completed the work, renaming it The Perfect Thief (ISBN 0-515-04622-1).

This was the first of his three published novels.

1982

In 1982, Bass published his second novel, Lime's crisis: A novel (ISBN 0-688-01025-3).

1984

On January 1, 1984, his third novel was published, The Emerald Illusion (ISBN 0-688-02622-2).

The following year, he wrote the screenplay Code Name: Emerald, based on this novel.

It was his debut as a screenwriter with a produced script.

As a screenwriter, Bass is known for successfully working in collaboration with other writers, including Amy Tan on The Joy Luck Club and Al Franken on When a Man Loves a Woman.

He also collaborated on the script for the 2022 film The King's Daughter.

Ron is currently under contract to write an original Screenplay entitled "Pegasus" for Pegasus Productions Corp.

A small controversy has arisen over Bass's use of assistants to help him write screenplays.

While it is common for screenwriters to employ assistants to help them with research and typing, Bass employs six or seven mostly female assistants that one journalist dubbed "The Ronettes".

According to Bass, his assistants help him in research and also in critiquing his scripts.

They enable him to write, revise, or polish a comparatively large number of screenplays each year.

Please see the WGA screenwriting credit system for an explanation of the terms story by, screenplay by, and written by.

Also note that under the rules of the Writers Guild of America, Bass has not received on-screen credit for every script he has contributed to.

It is thought that Bass has helped to write or consulted on more than 100 screenplays (not all of which have necessarily been produced).