Movies by Herbert Ross
As part of the cast:
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The Skin Game (1931)
Cast: John Longden, Helen Haye, Edmund Gwenn …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Based on a John Galsworthy play, this early Hitchcock film focuses on two families: the self-made Hornblowers and the old-money Hillcrests. When Mr. Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn) sets his sights…
As a director:
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Boys on the Side (1995)
Cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Looking to jump-start her career, lesbian night-club singer Jane (Whoopi Goldberg) answers an ad placed by a woman named Robin (Mary-Louise Parker), an AIDS sufferer who wants a companion to…
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Undercover Blues (1993)
Cast: Kathleen Turner, Dennis Quaid, Fiona Shaw …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
After their baby daughter is born, husband and wife superspies Jeff (Dennis Quaid) and Jane Blue (Kathleen Turner) plan to quit the business so they can focus on their family. But when word…
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True Colors (1991)
Cast: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
In this absorbing morality play, two law-school roommates fulfill their ambitions by taking different paths, as one accepts a job at the Department of Justice, while the other enters the…
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
Cast: Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funnyside up when Steve Martin and Rick Moranis play mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith in this criminally comic…
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Steel Magnolias (1989)
Cast: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Featuring a star-studded cast, this bittersweet drama follows the abiding friendship among five tight-knit women who congregate at a beauty parlor in a small Louisiana town to laugh, cry and…
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The Secret of My Success (1987)
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Kansas boy Michael J. Fox moves to New York City with a dream of taking big business by storm. He lands a job in the mailroom of a big company (run by his uncle), meets the lovely Helen…
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Protocol (1984)
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
After ditzy D.C. cocktail waitress Sunny Davis (Goldie Hawn) single-handedly saves an Arab dignitary from an assassination attempt, she becomes an overnight media darling in this lighthearted…
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Footloose (1984)
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
This special edition of the movie that shot Kevin Bacon to the stratosphere of fame features the actor playing Ren McCormack, a decidedly urban teen who's transplanted to a small…
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Max Dugan Returns (1983)
Cast: Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
In this family comedy from writer Neil Simon, long-lost father Max Dugan tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Nora, who's struggling with single motherhood. But Max's…
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I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Dinah Manoff, Ann-Margret …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Scrappy teenager Libby Tucker (Dinah Manoff) goes to Hollywood to find her estranged father -- a screenwriter named Herbert (Walter Matthau) -- and make it in showbiz. When she surprises him…
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Pennies from Heaven (1981)
Cast: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
In this bizarre but warmhearted black-and-white musical written by Dennis Potter and directed by Herbert Ross, traveling sheet music salesman Arthur (Steve Martin) entices innocent teacher…
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California Suite (1978)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Alan Alda, Maggie Smith …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
A quartet of intertwining vignettes chronicles the misadventures of four sets of guests who converge on a posh Beverly Hills hotel on the eve of the Academy Awards. Neil Simon's episodic…
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The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Ex-Broadway hoofer Paula (Marsha Mason) lives with her daughter in the New York flat of her most recent lost love -- who has sublet the place. Enter brash actor and sublessee Elliot (Richard…
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The Turning Point (1977)
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Shirley MacLaine stars as DeeDee, a former classical ballerina who cut short her rise to fame when she decided to settle down and raise children. When her daughter shows promise as a…
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The Seven Percent Solution (1976)
Cast: Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Run down by his cocaine addiction, super sleuth Sherlock Holmes enters a treatment program under the care of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in this delightful mystery-adventure based on…
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Funny Lady (1975)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand, reprising her Oscar-winning debut role) becomes a bitter, bottom-line woman in this sequel to Funny Girl. In the throes of the Depression, the theater business…
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The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Cast: Walter Matthau, George Burns, Richard Benjamin …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Think The Odd Couple for the octogenarian set. Walter Matthau and George Burns have never been better (or more cantankerous) as two faded vaudeville legends -- Lewis and Clark -- who reteam…
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The Last of Sheila (1973)
Cast: James Coburn, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
On the first anniversary of his wife's death, a wealthy movie producer (James Coburn) hosts a party aboard his yacht for a group of entertainment industry insiders who may be connected…
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Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross brings Woody Allen's play to the big screen, with Allen in the starring role as Casablanca-obsessed film critic Allan Felix, who turns to an imaginary version of Humphrey…
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The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Allen Garfield …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Felix (George Segal), a straight-laced writer, falls for a loudmouthed call girl named Doris (Barbra Streisand) -- who happens to moonlight as a porn star. The "opposites attract" formula…
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave …
Directed by: Herbert Ross
The unlikely love that blooms between an impossibly square schoolmaster (Peter O'Toole) and a flashy dancehall girl (Petula Clark) leads to matrimony and livelier days at Brookfield Boys…