Ray Starmann was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 1965, and grew
up in Lake Forest, Illinois. Ray traces his original interest in
writing to the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which played nightly during
the 1970's. The one hour drama series focused on crime, suspense,
thriller and horror episodes. Ray served as an army intelligence
officer for eight years. He was serving in Germany when the Berlin Wall
fell and was an eyewitness to that event and the collapse of communism
in Eastern Europe. In 1990-1991, Ray served in the Gulf War with the
famed 7th Cavalry. Ray worked for Greystone Television as a treatment
writer, actor, researcher and associate producer. In 2008, Ray and Sean
King teamed up to write "Generation Gap", a Hallmark original movie
starring Ed Asner and Rue McClanahan.
Grew up in Lake Forest, Illinois. Graduated from Loyola Academy in
Wilmette, Illinois.
Graduate of Southern Methodist University. Former army intelligence
officer. Served in West Germany during the Cold War. Veteran of the Gulf War(Operation Desert Storm). Speaks German and French.
Appeared as himself in MSNBC's, "Waging War General Schwarzkopf's Diary".