Ray Nazarro was an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter.
10 Facts About Ray Nazarro
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Ray Nazarro was one of Hollywood's busiest directors, directing as many as 13 pictures in one year.
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In 1950 Ray Nazarro was assigned a non-Western "B" picture, David Harding, Counterspy.
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Ray Nazarro was entrusted with more ambitious Western stories, with an emphasis on action but a serious, elegiac view of the West, like Al Jennings of Oklahoma starring Dan Duryea.
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In 1952, Ray Nazarro received an Academy Award nomination for Best Story for Bullfighter and the Lady.
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Boetticher says he wrote it down, and Ray Nazarro typed it up and sold the project to Dore Schary at MGM.
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Boetticher said that was the reason for Ray Nazarro getting screen credit.
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Ray Nazarro next made Gun Belt for United Artists and followed that with The Bandits of Corsica, for UA, and Kansas Pacific for Allied Artists Pictures, although both were released before Gun Belt.
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Ray Nazarro continued making films for UA and Columbia until Apache Territory.
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Ray Nazarro died on September 8,1986, and is buried in Chapel of the Pines Crematory.