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Birthday:

02-23-1909

Deathday:

10-26-1955 (46 years)

Birthplace:

New York City, New York, U.S.

Biography

Anthony Ross (February 23, 1909 – October 26, 1955) was a Broadway stage, television and film actor.

Born in New York City, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie.

Ross appeared in 20th Century Fox films including Kiss of Death (1947) and The Gunfighter (1950); in the Nicholas Ray-directed film noir, On Dangerous Ground (1952), and in the popular serial Mysterious Island (1951).

He appeared in many television productions, including the 1954 CBS series The Telltale Clue in which he starred as police Captain Richard Hale.

Ross died at age 46 of a heart attack in 1955.

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The Country Girl

Act like Philip Cook

event1954 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

An ex-theater actor is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening.

Rogue Cop

Act like Father Ahearn

event1954 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.

Kiss of Death

Act like 'Big Ed' Williams (uncredited)

event1947 star_border 7 top_panel_open

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

On Dangerous Ground

Act like Pete Santos

event1951 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.

Between Midnight and Dawn

Act like Police Lt. Masterson

event1950 star_border 5.8 top_panel_open

Rocky and Dan, war buddies, are prowl car cops on night duty. Dan is a cynic who views all lawbreakers as scum; Rocky feels more lenient. Both are attracted to the radio voice of communicator Kate Mallory; but in person, Kate proves reluctant to get involved with men who just might stop a bullet. By lucky chance, Rocky and Dan cause big trouble for murderous racketeer Ritchie Garris; but when he swears vengeance, Kate's fears may prove justified.

The Gunfighter

Act like Deputy Charlie Norris

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The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

Winged Victory

Act like Ross (uncredited)

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Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits for some.

Boomerang!

Act like Warren

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When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence.

At Home

Act like Crawford's Agent

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The Flying Missile

Act like Adm. Bradley

event1950 star_border 5.4 top_panel_open

A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.

The Vicious Years

Act like Police Insp. Umberto Spezia

event1950 star_border 5.5 top_panel_open

Mario, an Italian war orphan, sees Luca Rossi commit a murder. Eager for a home and family life, Mario promises not to tell the police if Luca takes him into his household and family. Luca fears and hates Mario, but his father, mother and sister all come to love him.

Taxi

Act like Mr. Alexander

event1953 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.

The Skipper Surprised His Wife

Act like Joe Rossini

event1950 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

Perfect Strangers

Act like Bob Fisher

event1950 star_border 6.2 top_panel_open

Romance at a murder trial with a pair of sequestered jurors who are the only ones who think that the woman in the dock is innocent. Separated from their normal lives, jurors Terry Scott and David Campbell start to fall in love.

The Window

Act like Detective Ross (uncredited)

event1949 star_border 6.9 top_panel_open

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

Girls in the Night

Act like Charlie Haynes

event1953 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.

Studio One

(3 ep.)

event1948 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Lux Video Theatre

Act like Pete (1 ep.)

event1950 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

The Philco Television Playhouse

(2 ep.)

event1948 star_border 6 top_panel_open

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

Suspense

(6 ep.)

event1949 star_border 4.7 top_panel_open

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.

Robert Montgomery Presents

(1 ep.)

event1950 star_border 5.2 top_panel_open

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.

Inner Sanctum

(1 ep.)

event1954 star_border 7

Tales of Tomorrow

(1 ep.)

event1951 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Tales of Tomorrow is an American anthology science fiction series that was performed and broadcast live on ABC from 1951 to 1953. The series covered such stories as Frankenstein, starring Lon Chaney, Jr., 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Thomas Mitchell as Captain Nemo, and many others featuring such performers as Boris Karloff, Brian Keith, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Bruce Cabot, Franchot Tone, Gene Lockhart, Walter Abel, Leslie Nielsen, and Paul Newman. The series had many similarities to the later Twilight Zone which also covered one of the same stories, "What You Need". In total it ran for eighty-five 30-minute episodes.

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