Jack Gross

Jack Gross Jr. (February 4, 1929 – December 14, 2007) was an American film screenwriter and television situation comedy writer.

  • for the American film and television producer please see Jack J. Gross

Biography

Gross was born in Fort Worth, Texas.[1] His father, Jack O. Gross, founded KFMB-TV, the first television station in San Diego in May 1949.[1] His brother Laurence Gross was an entertainment critic on KNSD.

He wrote the screenplays for Clay Pigeon and Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974).[2] On television, he wrote episodes of Gilligan's Island, Diff'rent Strokes and My Favorite Martian.[2][3]

He graduated Point Loma High School in 1947. He was a graduate of San Fernando Valley State College, now known as CSUN, and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.[4] Gross died of heart failure in La Jolla, California.[1][4]

His son is Josh E. Gross, publisher of Beverly Hills Weekly.

gollark: Firm discords *did* presumably ping people with memes people in the firm liked, or you wouldn't be banning that...
gollark: Eh, I feel like the MemeEconomy way encourages you to invest sooner, at least.
gollark: Anyway, what I was going to say: with the firms' discords or groups or whatever the meme-picking process is somewhat decentralized. With the rule, you're seemingly trying to bring that all *here*, centralized, and the rule enforcement seems as if it could lead to problems too.
gollark: Hmm, there's a "minutes to hide comment scores" box, at least.
gollark: I'll check, I haven't used subreddit settings in ages.

References
  1. Jack Gross Jr. on IMDb
  2. The New York Times
  3. "Man in Rolls Hails from Hollywood" (14 March 2001), The Press-Enterprise, page B2
  4. https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/obituary-jack-gross-jr-78-tv-comedy-writer/


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