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Herbert Ross
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Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 - October 9, 2001) was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in the stage and film. Ross was born in B…
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Herbert David Ross (May 13, 1927 - October 9, 2001) was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in the stage and film. Ross was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Martha Grundfast and Louis Chester Ross, a postal clerk. At the age of 9, his mother died and his father moved the family to Miami and opened a luncheonette. In 1942, Ross' stage debut came as "Third Witch" in a touring company of Macbeth. The next year brought his first Broadway performance credits with Something for the Boys. By 1950, he was a choreographer with the American Ballet Theatre and choreographed his first Broadway production, the Arthur Schwartz-Dorothy Fields musical adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Ross's first film assignment came as an uncredited choreographer on Carmen Jones (1954). In the UK, he choreographed The Young Ones (1961) and Summer Holiday (1963), both starring Cliff Richard. Later, he worked with Barbra Streisand as choreographer and director of musical numbers for Funny Girl (1968). His film directorial debut came with the musical version of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), made by MGM-British, with Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark. He went on to direct films involving ballet, such as The Turning Point (1977), Nijinsky (1980) and Dancers (1987). Other movies of critical acclaim followed in the 1970s and 1980s such as Neil Simon's adaptations of his own plays and film adaptations of Broadway productions through his last project, Boys on the Side (1995).
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2004
Poster Boy
Movie Producer
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1999
Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires
Movie Self
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1997
Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough
Movie Self
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1996
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
Movie Self
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1995
Boys on the Side
Movie Producer
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1994
Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera
TV show Self - Director
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1993
Undercover Blues
Movie Executive Producer
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1991
Soapdish
Movie Executive Producer
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1991
True Colors
Movie Director
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1990
My Blue Heaven
Movie Director
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1989
Steel Magnolias
Movie Director
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1987
Dancers
Movie Director
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1987
The Secret of My Success
Movie Director
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1986
Follies: In Concert
Movie Self- Concert Director
- 1986
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1984
Protocol
Movie Director
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1984
Footloose
Movie Director
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1983
Max Dugan Returns
Movie Producer
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1982
I Ought to Be in Pictures
Movie Director
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1981
Pennies from Heaven
Movie Director
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1980
Nijinsky
Movie Director
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1978
California Suite
Movie Director
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1977
The Goodbye Girl
Movie Director
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1977
The Turning Point
Movie Director
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1977
The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'
Movie Self
- 1977
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1976
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Movie Director
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1975
The Sunshine Boys
Movie Director
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1975
Funny Lady
Movie Director
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1973
The Last of Sheila
Movie Director
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1972
Play It Again, Sam
Movie Director
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1971
T.R. Baskin
Movie Director
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1971
Great Performances
TV show Self
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1970
The Owl and the Pussycat
Movie Director
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1969
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Movie Director
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1968
Funny Girl
Movie Choreographer
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1968
This is Streisand
Movie
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1966
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Movie Choreographer
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1966
Inside Daisy Clover
Movie Choreographer
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1964
The Fantasticks
Movie Choreographer
