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Anthony Ross

Anthony Ross

Birthday: 1909-02-23 | Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1954
Rogue Cop

as    Father Ahearn

1954
The Country Girl

as    Philip Cook

1953
Girls in the Night

as    Charlie Haynes

1953
Taxi

as    Mr. Alexander

1951
On Dangerous Ground

as    Pete Santos

1950
Perfect Strangers

as    Bob Fisher

1950
The Gunfighter

as    Deputy Charlie Norris

1950
The Vicious Years

as    Police Insp. Umberto Spezia

1950
Between Midnight and Dawn

as    Police Lt. Masterson

1949
The Window

as    Detective Ross (uncredited)

1947
Kiss of Death

as    'Big Ed' Williams (uncredited)

1939
At Home

as    Crawford's Agent