Herbert Ross

Herbert Ross

1927-05-13 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 41 Credits

Biography

Herbert David Ross was an American actor, choreographer, director and producer who worked predominantly in the stage and film. Ross was born on May 13, 1927 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 S...

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And the Oscar Goes To...

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014

as Self (archive footage)

7.0
Acting

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy ...

Poster Boy

Poster Boy

2004

Producer

5.4
Producing

The gay son of a conservative senator who is also the poster boy for his father's re-election unknowingly befriends a gay activist bent on destroying ...

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charm and laughter

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charm and laughter

1999

Acting

A doumentary of the life and career of French actor, Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

1997

as Self

6.5
Acting

A profile of the life of actor Walter Matthau.

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

1996

as Self

6.4
Acting

Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the ...

Boys on the Side

Boys on the Side

1995

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-coun...

Undercover Blues

Undercover Blues

1993

Director, Executive Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...

Soapdish

Soapdish

1991

Executive Producer

6.3
Producing

Celeste Talbert is the star of the long-running soap opera "The Sun Also Sets." With the show's ratings down, Celeste's ruthlessly ambitious co-star, ...

True Colors

True Colors

1991

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.

My Blue Heaven

My Blue Heaven

1990

Director, Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...

Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias

1989

Director

7.2
Directing

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friends...

Dancers

Dancers

1987

Director

4.3
Directing

A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.

The Secret of My Success

The Secret of My Success

1987

Producer, Director

6.5
Producing Directing

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and gir...

Follies: In Concert

Follies: In Concert

1986

as Self- Concert Director

7.0
Acting

A backstage documentary film including footage from the legendary 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's classic musical at Lincoln Center's A...

Sondheim on Broadway: Follies - Four Days in New York

Sondheim on Broadway: Follies - Four Days in New York

1986

as Self

Acting

Documentary that follows four hectic days of rehearsal for a celebrated 1985 concert performance from Lincoln Center of Stephen Sondheim's musical Fol...

Protocol

Protocol

1984

Director

5.5
Directing

A Washington waitress saves the Emir of Ohtar's life, launching her diplomatic career and a scandal.

Footloose

Footloose

1984

Director

6.7
Directing

When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock after discovering he...

Max Dugan Returns

Max Dugan Returns

1983

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

I Ought to Be in Pictures

I Ought to Be in Pictures

1982

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

Grandmother has nothing to say when Libby tells her that she is off to LA to look up Dad, a Hollywood screenwriter. Grandmother has been in a New York...

Pennies from Heaven

Pennies from Heaven

1981

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school te...

Nijinsky

Nijinsky

1980

Director

5.0
Directing

A ballet dancer struggles with his homosexuality and the increasing allure of a young ballerina who seeks to draw him away from his domineering lover.

California Suite

California Suite

1978

Director

5.8
Directing

The misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The Goodbye Girl

The Goodbye Girl

1977

Director

6.9
Directing

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Br...

The Turning Point

The Turning Point

1977

Director, Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an internationa...

The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

1977

as Self

Acting

Documentary of the making of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1977)

The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play

1977

Acting

A promotional short for The Goodbye Girl. It takes a behind the scenes look at the production, with a focus on actress Quinn Cummings.

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976

Director, Producer

6.2
Directing Producing

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. ...

The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys

1975

Director

6.8
Directing

Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spok...

Funny Lady

Funny Lady

1975

Director

5.2
Directing

Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but me...

The Last of Sheila

The Last of Sheila

1973

Director, Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scaveng...

Play It Again, Sam

Play It Again, Sam

1972

Director

7.5
Directing

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married ...

T.R. Baskin

T.R. Baskin

1971

Director

5.1
Directing

Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to searc...

The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat

1970

Director

6.2
Directing

Meek, owlish Felix and strident, catty Doris live in the same apartment building. His incessant typing bothers her; her gentlemen callers bother him. ...

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

1969

Director

6.7
Directing

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help...

Funny Girl

Funny Girl

1968

Choreographer

7.2

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Fol...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1966

Choreographer

7.7

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the ...

Inside Daisy Clover

Inside Daisy Clover

1965

Choreographer

5.7

A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.

The Fantasticks

The Fantasticks

1964

Choreographer

6.0

Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos’ daughter, Luisa, and Ben’s son, Matt, by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associa...

The Bacchantes

The Bacchantes

1961

Choreographer

3.8

The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrif...

Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St. Louis

1959

Choreographer

5.0

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Wonderful Town

Wonderful Town

1958

Director

6.6
Directing

Ruth Sherwood and her sister, Eileen, have moved to 1935 Greenwich Village. They're surrounded by colorful Village characters (including an out-of-wor...