Michael Ross (screenwriter)

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Michael Ross
Born	Isadore Rovinsky (1919-08-04)August 4, 1919 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	May 26, 2009(2009-05-26) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, Television producer
Years active	1971-1985
Spouse(s)	Irene Saslaw (1950 - 2000, her death)

Michael "Mickey" Ross (born Isadore Rovinsky) (August 4, 1919 – May 26, 2009) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and television producer. Ross, together with writing partners Don Nicholl and Bernard West, were writers/producers for All in the Family, for which Ross won an Emmy in 1973, The Jeffersons and Three's Company. Ross and West continued as executive producers of Three's Company after the death of partner Nicholl in 1980, also producing the spin-off shows The Ropers and Three's a Crowd.

Life, career and death

Born and raised in New York City to Jewish family, Ross graduated from City College of New York City in 1939. Ross then served as a bomber pilot in United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Ross, along with longtime business partner Bernie West, made his mark in the 1970s with the breakout TV sitcom, “All in the Family,” for which he won a writing Emmy in 1973.

After partnering on such earlier shows as The Garry Moore Show and The Martha Raye Show, Ross went on to scribe and serve as exec producer for Family spin-off The Jeffersons, about an African-American family living on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Ross later established the Michael and Irene Ross Chair in Hebrew and Yiddish and the Michael and Irene Ross Program in Jewish Studies at the City University of New York in New York City.

He also made a $3 million bequest and 25% share of his rights to all his shows to the National Yiddish Book Center. Ross died May 26, 2009 due to complications following stroke and heart attack.^[1] ^[2]

References

External links

Michael Ross at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (1970–1979)

No award (1970) James L. Brooks & Allan Burns for "Support Your Local Mother" (1971) Burt Styler for "Edith's Problem" (1972) Lee Kalcheim & Michael Ross & Bernie West for "The Bunkers and the Swingers" (1973) Treva Silverman for "The Lou and Edie Story" (1974) Stan Daniels & Ed. Weinberger for "Will Mary Richards Go to Jail?" (1975) David Lloyd for "Chuckles Bites the Dust" (1976) James L. Brooks & Allan Burns & Stan Daniels & Bob Ellison & David Lloyd & Ed. Weinberger for "The Last Show" (1977) Harve Brosten & Barry Harman & Bob Schiller & Bob Weiskopf for "Cousin Liz" (1978) No award (1979)

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Name	Ross, Michael
Alternative names	Ross, Mickey; Rovinsky, Isadore
Short description	Screenwriter for All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Three's Company
Date of birth	August 4, 1919
Place of birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Date of death	May 26, 2009
Place of death	Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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