Anthony Ross was a Broadway stage, television and film actor.

Born in New York City

New York City

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, he may be best remembered for being the first to play the character of "the Gentleman Caller" in the original 1944 production of Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

' The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

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.

Ross appeared in 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 films including Kiss of Death

Kiss of Death (1947 film)

Kiss of Death is a 1947 film noir movie directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. The story revolves around the film's protagonist, a former robber, and the antagonist, the ruthless, violent Tommy Udo...

(1947) and The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter

The Gunfighter is a 1950 western film starring Gregory Peck, Helen Westcott, Millard Mitchell and Karl Malden . This film was directed by Henry King...

(1950); in the Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

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-directed film noir

Film noir

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, On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground

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(1952), and in the popular serial

Serial (film)

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 Mysterious Island (1951).

He appeared in many television productions, including the 1954 CBS series The Telltale Clue

The Telltale Clue

The Telltale Clue is an American Police drama that aired on CBS on Thursday night from July 18, 1954 to September 23, 1954.-Synopsis:The series centered on Det. Lt. Richard Hale, the head of the criminology department of the police department of an unnamed city, who used scientific equipment and...

 in which he starred as police Captain Richard Hale.

Ross died at age 46 of a heart attack

Myocardial infarction

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 in 1955.

External links

• Two episodes of The Telltale Clue on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stuartfanning+telltale+clue&aq=f