Michael Gross Filmography

Born:: June 21, 1947 in Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A product of a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, actor Michael Gross spent the first two years of high school as (by his own admission) a "greaser" and gang member. He straightened himself out in his last two years, graduating as senior class president and National Honor Society member. Gross...Read More

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The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Roy Torrez, Jr., James Blood, Ronald Wieler, Enrique Madrid, Mike Coyne

Synopsis: In 1997, a group of United States Marines had been assigned to help guard the border between Texas and Mexico, looking for smugglers as part of the federal government's ongoing war on drugs. While on patrol, one of the Marines shot and killed Esequiel Hernandez Jr., mistaking him for a border Read More

2007
100 Million B.C.

Actors: Michael Gross, Christopher Atkins, Greg Evigan

Synopsis: Prehistoric terror comes to contemporary Los Angeles when time traveling scientists mistakenly return to the modern era with a carnivorous dinosaur in tow. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2007
Mrs. Harris

Actors: Frances Fisher, Annette Bening, Ben Kingsley

Synopsis: The sensationalistic murder of diet guru Dr. Herman Tarnower is explored in this stylized take on the tabloid cover story from first-time director Phyllis Nagy. As the inventor of the popular "Scarsdale Diet," Dr. Herman Tarnower (Ben Kingsley) became an overnight success during the peak of the Read More

2005
Combustion

Synopsis: When a series of unexplained explosion send shockwaves of fear through a small town, it's up to a city engineer to save the panic-stricken residents in director Kelly Sandefur's bombastic thriller. City engineer Joe Lando (Michael Gross) has just returned to his small hometown with his wife and Read More

2004
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins

Actors: Michael Gross

Synopsis: When a wealth of silver is discovered in the vast Nevada desert, the small but almost immediately prosperous boomtown of Rejection is quickly established in order to support the Bottom Dollar Mine. Despite the riches beneath their feet that promise to put Rejection on the map and deliver wealth Read More

2004
The Drew Carey Show: At Your Cervix

Synopsis: Kellie (Cynthia Watros) announces that she is pregnant. What Kellie isn't, is ready to be married to Drew (Drew Carey), the baby's father. Hoping to change Kellie's mind, Drew tries to enlist the aid of her parents Don (Michael Gross) and Annette (Susan Sullivan)--who make it rather clear that Read More

2004
The Drew Carey Show: Finale

Synopsis: Originally telecast in tandem with "The Passion of the Wick", this aptly titled episode marks the series finale of The Drew Carey Show. At virtually the same moment that she agrees to marry Drew (Drew Carey), Kellie (Cynthia Watros) goes into labor. Racing against time so that Kellie's son won't Read More

2004
The Drew Carey Show: Knot in the Mood

Synopsis: With his grandmother's wedding ring in hand, Drew (Drew Carey) is all set to propose to Kellie (Cynthia Watros). Alas, who should come barrelling into town but Kellie's parents Don (Michael Gross) and Annette (Susan Sullivan), who have decided to split up. Not only is Drew compelled to keep this Read More

2004
The Drew Carey Show: House of the Rising Son-in-Law

Synopsis: Mimi (Kathy Kinney) contacts matchmaker Larry (Ian Gomez) to find a new man in her life--and winds up with Larry himself. Meanwhile, Kellie (Cynthia Watros) tries to mend the rift between her perfectionist father Don (Michael Gross) and her slovenly soulmate Drew (Drew Carey) by arranging for the Read More

2004
Tremors: The Series [TV Series]

Synopsis: Based on the cult-favorite "giant worm" film of the same name, the weekly, hour-long Tremors: The Series found Michael Gross repeating his screen role as neurotic worm-buster Burt Gummer. The series took place in the ironically yclept community of Perfection Valley, NV, where all manner of huge Read More

2003
ER: Foreign Affairs

Synopsis: Abby's (Maura Tierney) bipolar brother, Eric (Tom Everett Scott), raises a ruckus at the funeral of Millicent Carter. To save a dying Croatian boy, Kovac (Goran Visnjic) may destroy his own future -- or completely alter his purpose in life. And both Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) and Romano (Paul McCrane Read More

2003
ER: A River in Egypt

Synopsis: Lopez (Lisa Vidal) tries to force Weaver (Laura Innes) out of the closet with a startling public display of affection. Romano (Paul McCrane) rehires Chen (Ming-Na), who has a long memory when it comes to getting even with Weaver. Abby (Maura Tierney) offers help to her new neighbor Joyce (Christina Hendricks Read More

2002
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection

Actors: Michael Gross, Charlotte Stewart, Ariana Richards

Synopsis: It's back to Perfection, NV, for munitions-crazed Graboid hunter Burt Gummer (Michael Gross), who has made a career out of chasing and slaying the burrowing "sub-terrestrial" creatures that pop out of the ground and eat whomever happens to be standing there. This time Gummer is assisted by Read More

2001
The Undesirable

Synopsis: The shock of seeing her family slaughtered by knife-wielding serial killer Frank Tanner (Michael Gross), and her subsequent escape from his murderous clutches, has caused Gilda (elissa Gilbert Brinkman) to have amnesia. In an effort to start a new life, Gilda becomes the nanny to the son (Matthew Read More

2001
ER: I'll Be Home for Christmas

Synopsis: This episode marks the final regular ER appearances of Eriq La Salle and Michael Michele. After resorting to desperate measures to retain custody of his son, Reese (Matthew Watkins), Peter Benton (La Salle) realizes that he must make a choice between the boy and his overloaded ER schedule. He opts Read More

2001
ER: Four Corners

Synopsis: Originally slated to air on September 20, 2001, the eighth-season opener of ER was bumped to September 27 due to ongoing network coverage of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. This inaugural episode hopscotches through time, presenting its events from several sharply Read More

2001
Law & Order: Trade This

Synopsis: A ruthless young stockbroker is murdered in his Wall Street office. No sooner have the detectives made an arrest than the suspect is also killed. Acting upon the likelihood that both victims were rubbed out by a professional assassin, the DA's office bears down upon the Mob -- and in so doing Read More

2000
Ally McBeal: Only the Lonely

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

1999
Ground Control

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Kelly McGillis, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks Read More

1/1/98
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave

Actors: Michael Gross, Dale Midkiff, Erika Eleniak, Paul Johansson, Paul Ben-Victor

Synopsis: Not only is the teeming metropolis of Isola in the grips of its worst heat wave in history, but the city is also in the thrall of a serial rapist who is targeting his previous victims. Hoping to stop the predator in his tracks, police detective Eileen Burke (Erika Eleniak) goes undercover, posing Read More

1997
Hijacked: Flight 285

Actors: James Brolin, Perry King, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall

Synopsis: While being escorted to prison from Phoenix to New York, crazed killer Peter Cronin (Anthony Michael Hall) hijacks a commercial jet in flight with the help of accomplices. Holding the 200 passengers and the crew members hostage, Cronin forces the plane to land in Dallas, then demands another, more Read More

1996
Sometimes They Come Back... Again

Actors: Alexis Arquette, Hilary Swank, Michael Gross, Jennifer Elise Cox, W. Morgan Sheppard

Synopsis: Murderous spirits hell-bent on revenge return to haunt John Porter, a young man whose sister they had murdered three-decades ago. Just as before, they start tormenting him by taking over the body of his lovely teenage daughter, but the spirits make a terrible mistake by underestimating Porter; for Read More

1996
The Good Doctor: The Paul Fleiss Story

Synopsis: Critics were somewhat amused when this made-for-TV movie first aired over CBS on February 21, 1996. They could understand why someone would want to make a biopic about notorious "Hollywood madam" Heidi Fleiss (here played by Tricia Leigh Fisher)--but of what possible dramatic value was a film Read More

1996
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice

Actors: Dale Midkiff, Joe Pantoliano, Paul Johansson, Andrea Parker, Dean McDermott

Synopsis: This made-for-TV cop drama was the second in a series of films inspired by the best-selling "87th Precinct" novels, written by Ed McBain under the nom de plume of Evan Hunter. The major American metropolis of Isola (it's actually Toronto, as indicated by several familiar landmarks) is in Read More

1996
Kounterfeit

Actors: Bruce Payne, Corbin Bernsen, Hilary Swank, Michael Gross, Andrew Hawkes

Synopsis: An uneven, patchy script does nothing to help this humdrum story about a man dedicated to obtaining some suitcases full of counterfeit money - just as good as the real thing to him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Deceived by Trust: A Moment of Truth Movie

Actors: Stephanie Kramer, Michael Gross, Conor O'Farrell, Shannon Fill, Lisa Gorlitsky

Synopsis: In this drama, a high-school counselor's life becomes a living hell after she discovers that the school principal has been abusing his power and sexually harassing his students. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Awake to Danger

Actors: Tori Spelling, Michael Gross, Reed Diamond, Shae D'Lyn

Synopsis: Recently awakened from a coma, a traumatized adolescent girl (Tory Spelling) fights to remember the circumstances surrounding her mother's brutal death. But as the details slowly come into focus, a killer watches and waits. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Tremors 2: Aftershocks

Actors: Fred Ward

Synopsis: The Graboids are back in this sequel to the campy comedy horror hit that finds luckless Earl Basset (Fred Ward) and survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) teaming up to destroy the monsters that are wrecking havoc in the Mexican oil fields. It's been a good few years since Earl and Burt saved the Read More

1995
Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story

Actors: Neil Patrick Harris, Kelli Williams, Michael Gross, Susan Clark, Richard Cox

Synopsis: Acclaimed French-Canadian filmmaker Christian Duguay (The Art of War) directs the 1994 made-for-television feature Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story, a harrowing real-life horror tale starring Doogie Howser, M.D.'s Neil Patrick Harris, Kelli Williams of Picket Fences, and Family Ties Read More

1994
Avalanche

Actors: David Hasselhoff, Michael Gross

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie is an action-thriller set in the mountains. David Hasselhoff stars as a diamond smuggler who crashes his plane into the snowy mountains to escape capture. His reckless move sets off an avalanche that traps him, along with a father (Michael Gross) and his kids, under Read More

1994
In the Line of Duty: The Price of Vengeance

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Michael Gross, Mary Kay Place, Brent Jennings, Bruce A. Young

Synopsis: When a gang leader murders the partner and friend of a police detective, the cop vows to get revenge, but as his quest for justice continues, it is at times unclear which is the hunter and which is the hunted. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland

Actors: LeVar Burton, Jill Clayburgh, Michael Gross, Keith Coulouris, Galyn Gorg

Synopsis: In 1991, Oakland, California was ravaged by brush fires. This made-for-television feature tells some of the harrowing and heroic stories of those that fought and survived the blaze. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Alan and Naomi

Actors: Lukas Haas, Vanessa Zaoui, Michael Gross, Amy Aquino, Zohra Lampert, Kevin Connolly

Synopsis: Alan (Lukas Haas) is a typically streetwise Brooklyn teenager of the 1940s. Naomi (Vanessa Zaoui) is a French-Jewish refugee of Nazi oppression, recently moved into the apartment above Alan's. Ever since witnessing the murder of her father, Naomi has remained in a catatonic state. Alan's Read More

1/31/92
With a Vengeance

Synopsis: In the process of trying to rediscover her identity, a young amnesiac leads herself and her employer on an investigation into her past that leads them into danger. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Cool as Ice

Actors: Vanilla Ice, Kristen Minter, Michael Gross, Sidney Lassick, Dody Goodman

Synopsis: The leader of a motorcycle gang (rapper Vanilla Ice) falls in love with a small-town girl (Kristen Minter) and finds out that while her family is involved in the Witness Protection Program, they are being pursued by corrupt cops. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

10/18/91
Tremors

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: Tremors is actually two movies in one. On its own terms, it's an enjoyable modern sci-fi horror-thriller, with good pacing and a sense of humor; but it's also a loving tribute to such 1950s low-budget desert-based sci-fi-horror films like Them!, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, and The Monolith Monsters Read More

1/19/90
Vestige of Honor

Actors: Gerald McRaney, Season Hubley

Synopsis: Michael Gross plays Don Scott, the real-life protagonist of the 1990 TV movie Vestige of Honor It is Scott's mission in life to uphold the governmental assurances made to the Montagnards, a group of pro-US Vietnamese who'd been promised safe conduct to America after the war. But when Saigon fell Read More

1990
In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas

Actors: Rod Steiger, Michael Gross, Gary Basaraba, Christopher Rich, Amy Wright, Beth Fowler, Henderson Forsythe

Synopsis: The second In the Line of Duty fact-based TV movie of the 1990-1991 season, In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas stars Michael Gross as an urban FBI agent. His quarry is Gordon Kahl (Rod Steiger), leader of a right-wing extremist movement whose battle against authority has led to murder. Read More

1990
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Synopsis: In this loose adaptation of Mark Twain's biting satire, a hip little girl from the 1980s somehow ends up in medieval England and there has many magical adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Big Business

Actors: Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Edward Herrmann, Michele Placido

Synopsis: Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby girls grow up to be Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin-and Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. One of the Midlers is a ruthless New York CEO, while one of the Tomlins is her air-headed Read More

8/19/88
Family Ties: Season 07

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall

1988
In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

Actors: Ronny Cox, Bruce Greenwood, Doug Sheehan, David Soul, Michael Gross

Synopsis: The first of several 1980s TV movies based on official FBI files, In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders premiered on November 27, 1988. Veteran TV "good guys" David Soul and Michael Gross do a typecasting about-face, playing two vicious, homicidal Miami-based bank robbers. The deadly duo's crime Read More

1988
The FBI Murders

Synopsis: In this disturbing episode of the made-for-television crime drama anthology In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders, the Miami division of the FBI embarks upon a desperate search for a murderous pair of thieves who kill for the joy of it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Family Ties: Season 06

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall

1987
Night Court: Caught Red Handed

Synopsis: Michael Gross takes time off from Family Ties to essay the role of Arthur Thursby, the new boss of public defender Christine (Markie Post). Falling victim to Thursby's sexual harassment, Christine can do nothing because it's his word against hers--so Harry (Harry Anderson) and Bull (Richard Moll) Read More

1987
Right to Die

Actors: Raquel Welch, Michael Gross, Bonnie Bartlett, Peter Michael Goetz, Joanna Miles

Synopsis: Raquel Welch's astonishing performance in the made-for-TV Right to Die compensates for any number of script deficiencies. Ms. Welch plays a successful psychologist with a happy home life who is suddenly stricken with the dreaded neurological affliction ALS (aka "Lou Gehrig's Disease"). At first Read More

1987
16 Days of Glory

Actors: Dave Perry

Synopsis: Originally released to theaters, the 145-minute documentary 16 Days of Glory is comprised of footage recorded by 18 separate cameras during the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles. Highlights include the opening-day ceremonies of July 28, 1984; the inspiring story of Englishman Dave Moorcroft, who set Read More

3/7/86
Family Ties: Season 05

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall

1986
A Letter to Three Wives

Synopsis: Made for television, A Letter to Three Wives is a modernized version of the classic 1949 theatrical film of the same name. While on a charity picnic, the wives of three well-to-do men each receive a letter from a fourth woman, a flashy divorcée named Addie (who is never seen). With calculated Read More

1985
Family Ties Vacation

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

Synopsis: All the main characters from the popular TV sitcom Family Ties were carried over into this made-for-TV feature. Michael J. Fox heads the cast as insufferable/lovable young conservative Alex Keaton, who this time around is attending Oxford on a summer scholarship. The Keaton family--ex-hippie Read More

1985
Family Ties: Season 04

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

1985
Summer Fantasy

Actors: Julianne Phillips, Ted Shackelford, Michael Gross

Synopsis: Bikinis and rippling, manly muscles abound in this lively, youth-oriented Southern California-set adventure that chronicles the experiences of a curvaceous high school graduate who decides to work as a life guard for a summer before going to med school. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Little Gloria... Happy at Last

Actors: Lucy Gutteridge, Angela Lansbury, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: Little Gloria...Happy at Last is the two-part TV adaptation of Barbara Goldsmith's 1980 best-seller. The film concerns the true-life custody battle over the daughter of millionaire Reggie Vanderbilt (Christopher Plummer) and his "child bride," Gloria Morgan (Lucy Gutteridge). When the Read More

1984
Family Ties: Season 03

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

1984
Family Ties: Season 02

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

1983
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through Arctic wastes in 1909 to discover the Pole, an expedition that Read More

1983
Family Ties: Season 01

Actors: Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers

1982
The Neighborhood

Actors: Ron Masak, Christine Belford, Ben Masters

Synopsis: Based on a story by Jimmy Breslin, The Neighborhood takes place in an all-white, blue collar neighborhood in an unspecified big city. A "blockbuster" real estate agent begins selling houses to black families (among the new neighbors is recent Oscar nominee Howard Rollins Jr.), resulting in mixed Read More

1982
Dream House

Actors: Marilu Henner, John Schneider

Synopsis: Dream House is an opposites-attract TV movie which strives mightily for social relevance. John Schneider plays a Georgia-cracker contractor who journeys to New York for a major building project. Out of love for Manhattanite urban planner Marilu Henner, he scraps his big-bucks assignment. Instead Read More

1981
Just Tell Me What You Want

Actors: Alan King, Ali MacGraw, Dina Merrill, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: In this Sidney Lumet romantic comedy, Max Herschel (Alan King) is a powerful businessman who keeps a bevy of beauties for pleasure to escape his alcoholic wife, Connie (Dina Merrill). His main minx is Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw), a successful television producer who is tiring of Max's lack of Read More

1980
F.D.R. The Last Year

Actors: Eileen Heckart, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Jason Robards stars as the ailing, 62-year-old President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year. Though visibly frail and weary, Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime Read More

1980
Breslin's Neighborhood

Synopsis: Racism is explored in this drama that chronicles the attempts of an African-American family to buy a home in a white suburb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
A Girl Named Sooner

Actors: Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Cloris Leachman, Don Murray, Anne Francis

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Girl Named Sooner stars newcomer Susan Deer in the title role. Sooner is an illiterate 8-year-old, growing up in a backwater Indiana community. Lee Remick co-stars as Elizabeth McHenry, Sooner's new foster parent, who hopes to properly educate the girl--and in so doing, give Read More

1975

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