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name: "Bill Ross"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-ross"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "28 January 1915"
died: "3 September 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:27:18.380131+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bill Ross

Cinematographer. Born 28 January 1915 in Ohio, USA. Died 3 September 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 28 January 1915, Ohio, USA
- **Died:** 3 September 1995
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24592607, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3226377/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1037392

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*I Am Not Your Negro*](https://film.one/film/i-am-not-your-negro.md) (85)

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## Biography

Bill Ross is an American director, cinematographer and editor who frequently collaborates with his brother Turner Ross. Born in 1980 in Ohio, he began making documentaries with his sibling in the late 2000s.

Their debut feature *45365* (2009), a portrait of their hometown, won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Feature. Subsequent works include *Tchoupitoulas* (2012), *Western* (2015), *Contemporary Color* (2016) and *Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets* (2020). Ross also contributed cinematography to Raoul Peck’s *I Am Not Your Negro* (2016).

*Sources: imdb.com, metacritic.com, yidff.jp.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *I Am Not Your Negro* (2017), Fi1m 85, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/i-am-not-your-negro.md)

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