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Director, Producer, Choreography Born: May 13, 1927 in New York City, NY Death: 2001 in New York, NY Biography:American director/choreographer "Herbert Ross" divided his time between Broadway and the American Ballet Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s. Ross also choreographed numerous live television programs, and handled the dance sequences of such films as "Carmen Jones" (1954), "Inside Daisy Clover" (1963) and "Dr. Doollittle" (1967). His first screen directorial job was "Goodbye Mr. Chips", an overblown 1969 remake of a well-regarded 1939 MGM feature. Ross' subsequent cinema reputation rested on his ability to transfer popular stage plays to the screen, as witness "The Owl and The Pussycat" (1970), "The Sunshine Boys" (1975) and "California Suite" (1978). While he was expert in cinematizing the plays of "Neil Simon", Ross was critcally lambasted for his conformist approach to "Woody Allen"'s "Play it Again Sam" (1972), though this film was one of "Allen"'s biggest moneymakers. Ross also directed a brace of... Full Biography
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