Michael Gross
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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 played guitar with a folksinging group before gravitating to the theatre. He attended the Yale School of drama (one of his classmates was Meryl Streep), then worked in regional theatre before landing in New York. In 1982, Gross was cast as Steven Keaton, ex-radical patriarch of a clan that included Michael J. Fox and Justine Bateman, in the long-running sitcom Family Ties. Perhaps chafing a bit at the press attention given to his co-star Fox, Gross took every available opportunity to play an image-busting role, notably the scuzzy, cold-blooded killer in the 1985 TV movie In the Line of Duty: The FBI Wars. Michael Gross is the brother of comedienne and former Saturday Night Live regular Mary Gross. In the years to come, Gross would prove to be a truly prolific actor, appearing in films like El Sonoma, Broken Windows, and Stay Cool, as well as TV shows like Tremors, How I Met Your Mother, The Young and the Restless, and ER.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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38% | Tremors: Shrieker Island |
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— | 2020 |
59% | Bilal: A New Breed of Hero |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Power of the Air |
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— | 2018 |
40% | Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Selling Sunshine: The Florida Trains |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | C Street |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Quackerz |
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— | 2016 |
52% | Holidays |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Last Call at Murray's |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | 20th Century Limited |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Becoming Santa |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Tremors 5: Bloodlines |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Rosemont |
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— | 2015 |
4% | Atlas Shrugged: Part II |
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$2.6M | 2012 |
36% | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie |
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$0.2M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Meant to Be |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Naughty Or Nice |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Adopting Terror |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Blue-Eyed Butcher |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | The Dog Who Saved the Holidays |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 12 Christmas Wishes for My Dog |
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— | 2011 |
14% | Stay Cool |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Broken Windows |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | An American in China |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 100 Million BC |
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— | 2007 |
43% | Mrs. Harris |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Combustion |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Tremors 4 - The Legend Begins |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Combustion |
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— | 2004 |
67% | Tremors 3 - Back to Perfection |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | The Undesirable |
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— | 2001 |
40% | Ground Control |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Kounterfeit |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | True Heart |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Sometimes They Come Back...Again |
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— | 1996 |
56% | Tremors 2: Aftershocks |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Hijacked: Flight 285 |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Avalanche |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful (Unfaithful ) (Behind Closed Doors) |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | With a Vengeance (Undesirable) |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Alan and Naomi |
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— | 1992 |
6% | Cool as Ice |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | In the Line of Duty: Manhunt in the Dakotas |
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— | 1991 |
86% | Tremors |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The FBI Murders |
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— | 1988 |
44% | Big Business |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Little Gloria...Happy at Last |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Summer Fantasy |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Little Gloria: Happy at Last |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Just Tell Me What You Want |
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— | 1980 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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88% |
A.P. Bio
2018
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90% |
Togetherness
2015-2016
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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23% |
Anger Management
2012
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No Score Yet |
Last Man Standing
2011
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90% |
Suits
2011-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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79% |
Brothers & Sisters
2006-2011
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92% |
Curb Your Enthusiasm
2000
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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No Score Yet |
Lass es, Larry!
2000-2017
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No Score Yet |
Comment je l'ai rencontrée
2005-2013
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83% |
How I Met Your Mother
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
2007-2010
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86% |
Boston Legal
2004-2008
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No Score Yet |
CSI: NY
2004-2013
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No Score Yet |
Nature
1982
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No Score Yet |
The Drew Carey Show
1995-2004
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No Score Yet |
ER
1994-2009
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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No Score Yet |
Family Law
1999-2002
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order
1990-2010
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66% |
Spin City
1996-2002
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61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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67% |
Norm
1999-2001
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No Score Yet |
The Hunger
1997-1999
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No Score Yet |
Promised Land
1996-1999
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No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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No Score Yet |
Family Ties
1982-1989
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No Score Yet |
Night Court
1984-1992
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Quotes from Michael Gross' Characters
Burt Gummer: | Just a few household chemicals in the proper proportions. |
Burt Gummer: | The bitch is back! |
William Russell Matix: | Now we can go to Disneyworld. |
Burt Gummer: | Broke into the wrong goddam rec room didn't you, you bastards?! |
Earl Bassett: | You smoked his ass |
Earl Bassett: | You smoked his ass. |
Burt Gummer: | Doing what I can with what I got |
Burt Gummer: | Doing what I can with what I got. |
Earl Bassett: | Man, Burt, you put a whole new spin on the word "Overkill" |
Earl Bassett: | Man, Burt, you put a whole new spin on the word 'overkill' |
Burt Gummer: | When you need it and don't have it, you sing a different tune. |
Burt Gummer: | "Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't you, you bastard!" |
Burt Gummer: | Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't you, you bastard! |
Burt Gummer: | I AM COMPLETELY OUT OF AMMO! That´s never happened to me before. |
Burt Gummer: | I am COMPLETELY out of ammo. That's never happened to me before. |