Herbert Ross

Known for DirectingBorn 1927-05-13Died 2001-10-09Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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 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).Read more

Movies & web series

The Making of 'The Goodbye Girl'

Jean-Pierre Aumont, charme et fou-rires

Placido Domingo's Tales from the Opera

This is Streisand

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Play It Again, Sam

Steel Magnolias

Funny Girl

Follies: In Concert

The Last of Sheila

The Goodbye Girl

I Ought to Be in Pictures

The Sunshine Boys

Wonderful Town

Footloose

Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough

Max Dugan Returns

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

The Turning Point

The Secret of My Success

Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels

Boys on the Side

Soapdish

True Colors

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

Undercover Blues

My Blue Heaven

The Owl and the Pussycat

Pennies from Heaven

Great Performances

The Fantasticks

California Suite

Meet Me in St. Louis

Poster Boy

Protocol

Inside Daisy Clover

Funny Lady

The Bacchantes

T.R. Baskin

Nijinsky

Dancers

Sondheim on Broadway: Follies - Four Days in New York

The Amazing Miss Cummings: An Actress at Work and Play