Gene Ross

ActorWriter Aug 9 (died age 76) Durham, North Carolina, USA 1945–1999 (54 year career)

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Biography

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.

Known For

Film

The Goonies

Man in Shower #1

Film

Lost Highway

Warden Clements

Film

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Earl

Film

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

Cop

Film

Cloak & Dagger

Bus Driver #2

Film

Angel

Vice Cop

Film

Pennies from Heaven

Bank Teller

Film

8 Million Ways to Die

Slim

Filmography

Acting (32)

Movies (26)

Kiss Toledo Goodbye

as Mr. Beidekker

Lost Highway

as Warden Clements

as Red

Secret Sins of the Father

1994

as Otto Reynolds

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

1988

as Earl

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8 Million Ways to Die

as Slim

Wisdom

as Sheriff

The Goonies

as Man in Shower #1

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

as Cop

Angel

as Vice Cop

Cloak & Dagger

as Bus Driver #2

Getting Physical

as AAA Man

Last of the Great Survivors

as Sgt. Muldoon

Second Thoughts

The Ambush Murders

as Roberts

Partners

as Cop

Pennies from Heaven

as Bank Teller

Keep My Grave Open

as Dr. Emerson

Don't Hang Up!

as Judge Stemple

Scum of the Earth

as Odis Pickett

Don't Look in the Basement

1973

as Oliver W. Cameron

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The Legend of Boggy Creek

1972

as Hunter

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Encounter with the Unknown

1972

as Susan's Father

3.9

A Bullet for Pretty Boy

1970

as William

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The Corn Is Green

1945

as Gwilym Jones (uncredited)

7.2

The Grail

as Grandpa Krane

Television (6)

seaQuest DSV

as Louis Jacobi

Matlock

as Harold Scully

Moonlighting

as Bartender

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

as Max Spaulding

Murder, She Wrote

as Desk Sergeant

T. J. Hooker

as The 'John'

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Scum of the Earth

1974

Dialogue

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