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Annie Ross

Annie Ross

Actor · 1930 – 2020 · Mitcham, Surrey, England, UK

Annabelle McCauley Allan Short (25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020), known professionally as Annie Ross, was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Ross was born in Surrey, England, the daughter of Scottish vaudevillians John "Jack" Short and Mary Dalziel Short (née Allan). Her brother was Scottish entertainer and theatre producer and director Jimmy Logan. She first appeared on stage at age three. At the age of four, she travelled to New York by ship with her family; she later recalled that they "got the cheapest ticket, which was right in the bowels of the ship". Shortly after arriving in the city, she won a token contract with MGM through a children's radio contest run by Paul Whiteman. She subsequently moved with her aunt, Scottish-American singer and actress Ella Logan, to Los Angeles, and her mother, father and brother returned to Scotland. She did not see her parents again until fourteen years later. At the age of seven, she sang "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" in Our Gang Follies of 1938, and played Judy Garland's character's sister in Presenting Lily Mars (1943). Her adulthood film roles included Liza in the film Straight On till Morning (1972), Claire in Alfie Darling (1976), Diana Sharman in Funny Money (1983), Vera Webster in Superman III (1983), Mrs. Hazeltine in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Rose Brooks in Witchery (1988), Loretta Cresswood in Pump Up the Volume (1990), Tess Trainer in Robert Altman's Short Cuts (1993), and Lydia in Blue Sky (1994). She also appeared as Granny Ruth in the horror films Basket Case 2 (1990) and Basket Case 3: The Progeny (1991). She also had a bit part in Robert Altman's The Player in 1992. Ross also starred in Scottish Television's comedy-drama Charles Endell Esquire (1979). She provided the speaking voice for Britt Ekland in The Wicker Man (1973), and Ingrid Thulin's singing voice in Salon Kitty (1976). On stage, she appeared in Cranks (1955; London and New York City), The Threepenny Opera (1972), The Seven Deadly Sins (1973) at the Royal Opera House, Kennedy's Children (1975) at Arts Theatre, London, Side by Side by Sondheim, and in the Joe Papp production of The Pirates of Penzance (1982). Ross died in New York City on 21 July 2020 from emphysema and heart disease, four days before her 90th birthday. Description above from the Wikipedia article Annie Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies23

  • Movie7.3

    The Wicker Man

    1973 · 1.7K votes

  • Movie5.5

    Superman III

    1983 · 1.9K votes

  • Movie7.2

    The Player

    1992 · 986 votes

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  • Movie7.1

    Pump Up the Volume

    1990 · 424 votes

  • Movie7.2

    Short Cuts

    1993 · 711 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Salon Kitty

    1976 · 152 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Yanks

    1979 · 67 votes

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    Blue Sky

    1994 · 154 votes

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    Presenting Lily Mars

    1943 · 13 votes

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    La casa 4

    Witchcraft (Evil Encounters)

    1988 · 88 votes

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    Straight On Till Morning

    1972 · 39 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Beast Must Die

    1974 · 89 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Alfie Darling

    1975 · 13 votes

  • Movie5.1

    Basket Case 3

    1992 · 127 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Basket Case 2

    1990 · 162 votes

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    Musical Movieland

    1944 · 3 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Funny Money

    1982 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Our Gang Follies of 1938

    1937 · 11 votes

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  • Movie7.0

    Cinderella's Feller

    1940 · 1 votes

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  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Saint

    1962 · 136 votes

  • TV6.2

    The Steve Allen Show

    1956 · 6 votes

  • TV4.8

    No Hiding Place

    1959 · 4 votes

  • TV7.2

    Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

    2002 · 25 votes

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  • TV5.0

    The Sunday Drama

    1977 · 1 votes

  • TV7.0

    One Pair of Eyes

    1967 · 1 votes

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