Annie Ross

Known for ActingBorn 1930-07-26Died 2020-07-21Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK

Annabelle McCauley Allan Short (25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Ross was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short (née Allan). Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan. She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that they "got the cheapest ticket, which was right in the bowels of the ship". Shortly after arriving in the city, she won a token contract with MGM through a children's radio contest run by Paul Whiteman. She subsequently moved with her aunt, Scottish-American singer and actress Ella Logan, to Los Angeles, and her mother, father and brother returned to Scotland. She did not see her parents again until fourteen years later. At the age of seven, she sang "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" in Our Gang Follies of 1938, and played Judy Garland's character's sister in Presenting Lily Mars (1943). Her adulthood film roles included Liza in the film Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994). She also appeared as Granny Ruth in the horror films Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991). She also had a bit part in Robert Altman's The Player in 1992. Ross also starred in Scottish Television's comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire (1979). She provided the speaking voice for Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man (1973), and Ingrid Thulin's singing voice in Salon Kitty (1976). On stage, she appeared in Cranks (1955; London and New York City), The Threepenny Opera (1972), The Seven Deadly Sins (1973) at the Royal Opera House, Kennedy's Children (1975) at Arts Theatre, London, Side by Side by Sondheim, and in the Joe Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance (1982). Ross died in New York City on 21 July 2020 from emphysema and heart disease, four days before her 90th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annie Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes

The Ghosts of Motley Hall

Short Cuts

Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

The Player

Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer

The Wicker Man

The Saint

Pump Up the Volume

Musical Movieland

Funny Money

Notes for a Film on Jazz

One Pair of Eyes

Cinderella's Feller

The Ed Sullivan Show

Throw Momma from the Train

Blue Sky

Presenting Lily Mars

The Steve Allen Show

Our Gang Follies of 1938

Yanks

Basket Case 2

Straight On Till Morning

Salon Kitty

Superman III

The Beast Must Die

Basket Case 3: The Progeny

Witchcraft (Evil Encounters)

The Sunday Drama

No Hiding Place

Alfie Darling

Queens of Jazz: The Joy and Pain of the Jazz Divas

No One But Me

Annie Ross: No One But Me

The Story of Hal Roach and Our Gang

The Ring of Truth

One Pair of Eyes - No, But Seriously