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May 30, 2009 · He married Irene Saslaw in 1950. They had no children. In the 1950s, he directed shows at a resort in the Adirondack Mountains and debuted as a TV director on “The Garry Moore Show.”
May 30, 2009 · The Times did not detail survivors of Ross, who died Tuesday, but said he married Irene Saslaw in 1950. She died in 2000.
Writer: Three's Company. Michael Ross was born on 4 August 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Three's Company (1976), All in the Family (1971) and The Jeffersons (1975). He was married to Irene Saslaw.
- Michael Ross
- May 26, 2009
- August 4, 1919
He married Irene Saslaw in 1950. They had no children. In the 1950s, he directed shows at a resort in the Adirondack Mountains and debuted as a TV director on "The Garry Moore Show." Friends described Ross as humble, opera-loving and a voracious reader who loved both Yiddish and English.
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Michael "Mickey" Ross (born Isadore Rovinsky) (August 4, 1919 – May 26, 2009) was an American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and television producer. Ross and writing partners Don Nicholl and Bernie 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...
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.
1.Nelson, Valerie J. (May 30, 2009). Michael Ross dies at 89; TV writer-producer endowed Jewish studies programs. 2.TV writer/producer Michael Ross dies; Worked on "All in the Family", "Jeffersons", by Andrew Stewart, Film Reporter @Variety_Stewart for Variety.com, MAY 28, 2009.
•Michael Ross at the Internet Movie Database
Born August 4, 1923 (some sources say 1924), in New York, NY; died, 1985; sonof Harry and Bessie (Semel) Rovinsky; married Irene Saslaw, January 12, 1950. Nationality American
May 26, 2009 · 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 three-million-dollar bequest and twenty-five percent share of his rights to all his shows to the National Yiddish Book Center.
