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 Producer/Director Mikey Ross has been involved with a total of 82 All in the Family episodes, 31 of which he has also written. | ||||
| Personal Information | ||||
| Nickname | "Mickey" | |||
| Birth name: | Isadore Rovinsky | |||
| Born: | 4 August 1919 | |||
| Birthplace: | New York City | |||
| Died | 26 May 2009 (aged 89) | |||
| Deathplace: | Los Angeles | |||
| Career/Family Information | ||||
| Occupation/ Career: |
Screenwriter/story editor/script supervisor, Television producer | |||
| Years active: | 1971 to 1985 | |||
| Spouse(s): | Irene Saslaw (1950 - 2000, her death) | |||
| Character information | ||||
| Appeared on: | Three's Company, Three's a Crowd | |||
| Episode appearances: | involved with 111 episodes of Three's Company involved with 22 episodes of Three's a Crowd | |||
Michael "Mickey" Ross (born Isadore Rovinsky, 4 August 1919 - 26 May 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 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 three-million-dollar bequest and twenty-five percent share of his rights to all his shows to the National Yiddish Book Center. Ross died 26 May 2009 due to complications following stroke and myocardial infarction.[1][2]
