Ramsay started his career as an editor on
documentary shows, such as
VH1's
Behind the Music and
ESPN's
SportsCentury and moved into
reality television, like
American Idol,
The Bachelor and its
spin-off The Bachelorette. In 2006, he began editing
serials, such as
Alias,
Battlestar Galactica and
FlashForward. From 2010 to 2015, he edited 23 episodes of
The Walking Dead. His work as an editor has earned him three
Emmy nominations, once for
The Contender and twice for
Battlestar Galactica ("
He That Believeth in Me" and "
Daybreak, Part 2"). Ramsay began his professional directing career by directing episodes of
The Walking Dead. Ramsay directed episodes of other television series including
The Purge,
Scream,
Outcast, and
Krypton. In 2018, he directed and produced the feature film
Midnighters, a noir thriller written by his brother Alston. Midnighters premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and was purchased for theatrical and digital distribution by
IFC Films. It currently holds an 81% rating on
Rotten Tomatoes. Ramsay's second feature,
The Current Occupant, is a psychedelic institutional horror film based on the Ramsay brothers' experiences working in politics. Actor
Barry Watson stars as a patient in a mental asylum who believes that he is the
President of the United States. The script was written by Alston Ramsay and produced by
Blumhouse as a Hulu Original for
Hulu. Julius and Alston worked as Executive Producers on the film. The Current Occupant is the Independence Day-themed installment of Hulu's anthology film series
Into the Dark. Filming was completed two weeks before the
COVID-19 pandemic suspended film production in the United States. Ramsay completed all of his post-production work on the film remotely and the release was delayed two weeks. A trailer was released on July 2, 2020 and the film premiered on Hulu on July 17, 2020, to favorable reviews. On August 21, 2021,
Amazon Studios announced that it was developing
Infinite Thread, a television series created and written by Julius and Alston Ramsay. The series is a co-production between Amazon and
Universal Television. It will be produced by the Ramsay brothers,
Byron Balasco, and
Justin Lin through his company
Perfect Storm Entertainment.
Deadline Hollywood describes
Infinite Thread as a series that "blends true crime and science fiction in its depiction of one man’s epic investigation into a crime that breaks the boundaries of time and space." ==Filmography==