Gene Ross

Gene Ross

Born: August 9, 1930
Died: August 23, 2006
in Durham, North Carolina, USA
Gene Ross (August 9th, 1930-March 23th, 2006) was an American character actor, often typecast as police officers, he is best known for playing Earl Ford in the slasher film Halloween 4 (1989). Ross has 69 credits to his name in film and television.

Movies for Gene Ross...

Kiss Toledo Goodbye
Title: Kiss Toledo Goodbye
Character: Mr. Beidekker
Released: November 22, 1999
Type: Movie
After learning his biological father was a crime lord, an Ohio investment adviser must secretly try to prevent a gang war.
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Lost Highway
Title: Lost Highway
Character: Warden Clements
Released: January 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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Ed
Title: Ed
Character: Red
Released: March 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Jack Cooper could be a world-class baseball pitcher if he didn't keep buckling under the pressure. He tries to keep his spirits up after he's traded to a minor league team but loses all hope when he discovers that Ed, one of his teammates, is a chimp. Ed used to be the team mascot, but was promoted to third base when the owners realized he had a talent for baseball. As Jack struggles to get used to his new surroundings, Ed helps him regain his confidence on and off the field.
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Secret Sins of the Father
Title: Secret Sins of the Father
Character: Otto Reynolds
Released: January 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Louis (Lloyd Bridges) is a farmer in small-town Nebraska. All seems well in his quiet life until the town's spiteful sheriff, Tom (Beau Bridges), who is also Louis' son, unexpectedly charges Louis with the murder of his mother. Louis knows he's innocent and thinks that his son is merely out to get him because he's been having a heated affair with Tom's former lover. Can father and son put their bad blood aside for the sake of the family? Or will Tom's vengeance prevail?
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Title: seaQuest DSV
Character: Louis Jacobi
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: TV
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
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Pussyman 1: The Search
Title: Pussyman 1: The Search
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The sizzling series gets off to a rollicking start in this blistering opening salvo. It all starts with three bored porno executives who sit around and speculate about where to find the most perfect female genitalia in town. As all good porno performers would, they hire a dubiously qualified private eye (Tom Byron) to get to the bottom of things, as it were.
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Title: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Character: Earl
Released: October 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd -- the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode -- and her babysitter Rachel. Can Dr. Sam Loomis stop him before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece?
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Wisdom
Title: Wisdom
Character: Sheriff
Released: December 31, 1986
Type: Movie
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
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8 Million Ways to Die
Title: 8 Million Ways to Die
Character: Slim
Released: April 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Max Spaulding
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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The Goonies
Title: The Goonies
Character: Man in Shower #1
Released: June 7, 1985
Type: Movie
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of Pirate One-Eyed Willie.
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Title: Moonlighting
Character: Bartender
Released: March 3, 1985
Type: TV
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.
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Cloak & Dagger
Title: Cloak & Dagger
Character: Bus Driver #2
Released: June 1, 1984
Type: Movie
11-year-old Davey's mother is dead and his father doesn't spend nearly enough time with him. So the boy loses himself in video games--and even has an imaginary friend, a super-resourceful secret agent. When he accidentally comes into possession of a spy group's secret plans, and winds up on the run from them, he must learn to rely on himself and his imaginary pal to save his skin.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Vice Cop
Released: April 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Title: Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Character: Cop
Released: April 13, 1984
Type: Movie
After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.
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Getting Physical
Title: Getting Physical
Character: AAA Man
Released: March 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.
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Last of the Great Survivors
Title: Last of the Great Survivors
Character: Sgt. Muldoon
Released: January 3, 1984
Type: Movie
A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and falls for the man she meets on a blind date at a punk rock club. She soon learns that he is the building inspector who condemned the seniors' decrepit home, forcing her to turn to her amorous lawyer ex-boyfriend to find the loophole that will save the building.
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Second Thoughts
Title: Second Thoughts
Released: March 7, 1983
Type: Movie
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections.
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Partners
Title: Partners
Character: Cop
Released: April 30, 1982
Type: Movie
Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship?
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The Ambush Murders
Title: The Ambush Murders
Character: Roberts
Released: January 5, 1982
Type: Movie
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
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Pennies from Heaven
Title: Pennies from Heaven
Character: Bank Teller
Released: December 11, 1981
Type: Movie
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
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Keep My Grave Open
Title: Keep My Grave Open
Character: Dr. Emerson
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.
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Scum of the Earth
Title: Scum of the Earth
Character: Odis Pickett
Released: July 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Helen and Paul are honeymooning in a Texas cabin when Paul is murdered by an unseen assailant. Fleeing into the woods, Helen is taken in by Odie Pickett and his impoverished hillbilly family, becoming trapped in their isolated shack while the killer is still on the loose and wreaking havoc.
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Don't Hang Up!
Title: Don't Hang Up!
Character: Judge Stemple
Released: May 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman, Amanda Post (Susan Bracken), is summoned to the house in which she grew up to attend to her dying grandmother Harriet (Rhea MacAdams). The place holds bad memories for her; as a child, she witnessed the murder of her mother there, and the mystery assailant was never caught. On returning, she encounters three sinister individuals: Doctor Crawther (Jim Harrell), who refuses to admit the sick woman to a hospital and insists on administering her medication himself; Judge Stemple (Gene Ross), a corrupt local magistrate, and Claude Kearn (Larry O’Dwyer), curator of a nearby museum, who is angling to inherit the old lady’s collection of antique furniture, garments and jewellery. Amanda gives the three vultures their marching orders, only to find herself targeted by a menacing phone caller who knows her every move…
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Don't Look in the Basement
Title: Don't Look in the Basement
Character: Oliver W. Cameron
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
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Encounter with the Unknown
Title: Encounter with the Unknown
Character: Susan's Father
Released: November 15, 1972
Type: Movie
Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother forecasts the deaths of the three young men she holds responsible, on 7, 14, and 21 days hence. And, one by one, her grim predictions come true. Next, a ghoulish sound emanates from a mist-shrouded hole in the Earth near where a Missouri boy has lost his dog. The boy's father is lowered into the hole and lets out an agonizing scream! Finally, a senator returning home from a party finds a lost girl on a bridge and learns from her father that she died years earlier
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The Legend of Boggy Creek
Title: The Legend of Boggy Creek
Character: Hunter
Released: August 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas, Boggy Creek focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while chronicling sightings of the monster.
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy
Title: A Bullet for Pretty Boy
Character: William
Released: July 15, 1970
Type: Movie
A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.
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The Corn Is Green
Title: The Corn Is Green
Character: Gwilym Jones (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1945
Type: Movie
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
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The Grail
Title: The Grail
Character: Grandpa Krane
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Directed by Joie Gharrity, this cinematic escapade takes us on a wild ride where two teenagers unwittingly misplace the Holy Grail—yes, that very chalice that’s been the subject of countless legends - and then try to recover the cup before Satan can lay his hands on it and claim ultimate power.