Film School and the University of Oregon, Grais set out for Los Angeles, where he began a TV writing career, starting with a job at Baretta, before eventually moving into feature films in partnership with Mark Victor, a friend from grade school.
Grais and Victor's first two scripts, an unproduced comedy called Turn Left And Die and the action film Death Hunt, brought them to the attention of Steven Spielberg.
He then co-wrote and executive produced the TV pilot Visitors From the Unknown for CBS and executive-produced the film Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis.
In 1992, he produced Steven King’s Sleepwalkers, and co-wrote Cool World for director Ralph Bakshi.
Grais continued to write commercial screenplays for a slate of ready-to-produce projects for his new company Graisland Entertainment.