Career
Richmond has also worked variously as a feature and entertainment writer, beat reporter and television critic for a variety of publications including the Los Angeles Daily News, Daily Variety, the Orange County Register, the late Los Angeles Herald Examiner,, Los Angeles magazine, Buzz, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, New Times Los Angeles, DGA Magazine, and Penthouse. In 2011, Ray Richmond became a contributing writer and editors Richmond"s long-running weekly column in The Hollywood Reporter was called The Pulse and was syndicated by Reuters.
In April 2006, Richmond created an online blog connected to The Hollywood Reporter.
Going by the name of "Past Deadline," the blog has been on the cutting edge of breaking entertainment/celebrity related issues, such as the 2006 Mel Gibson Driving under the influence ordeal, and the Ellen Burstyn Emmy nomination controversy, stories which were subsequently picked up by the international press In 2009, Richmond left The Hollywood Reporter.
Richmond is a graduate of California State University at Northridge. During the summer of 2004, along with other outspoken colleagues, he appeared as himself in a well-received and controversial talkumentary called "Six Characters in Search of America".
Richmond has also served as a talent coordinator and segment producer for The Merv Griffin Show and had a short-lived stint as publicity VP for the cable network East!.
