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name: "Jack J. Gross"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-j-gross"
fi1m_id: "jack-j-gross"
imdb_id: "nm0343387"
tmdb_id: 13955
wikidata_id: "Q16003693"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "29 July 1902"
died: "11 March 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T03:06:43.311464+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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# Jack J. Gross

## Identity

Jack J. Gross

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-j-gross
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-j-gross
- **IMDb ID:** nm0343387
- **TMDB ID:** 13955
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16003693
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_J._Gross, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16003693, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343387/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13955

Producer. Born 29 July 1902 in New York City. Died 11 March 1964.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 29 July 1902, New York City
- **Died:** 11 March 1964
- **Active:** 1940–1941
- **Also known as:** Jack Gross
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_J._Gross, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16003693, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343387/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13955

## Biography

Jack J. Gross was an American film and television producer. He began his career in exhibition, working as an usher, projectionist and theatre manager before becoming western division manager for RKO Theatres. In 1939 he joined Universal Pictures as a producer.

At Universal he served as associate producer on *The Bank Dick* (1940) and as executive producer on a number of films including *The Wolf Man* (1941), *Phantom of the Opera* (1943), *Son of Dracula* (1943), *The Body Snatcher* (1945) and *Isle of the Dead* (1945). He moved to RKO in 1943 as executive producer and later produced titles such as *The Big Steal* (1949). In 1952 he co-founded the independent production company Gross-Krasne, which specialised in television series including *Big Town*, *Mayor of the Town* and *The O. Henry Playhouse*.

Gross died in London on 11 March 1964 while on a business trip.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Wolf Man* (1941), Fi1m 78, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-man.md)
- *The Bank Dick* (1940), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-bank-dick.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Pursuers* (1961), series, Creator
- *Monster from Green Hell* (1957), Executive Producer
- *Please Murder Me* (1956), Executive Producer
- *The Mark of the Renegade* (1951), Producer
- *The Woman on Pier 13* (1950), Producer
- *The Big Steal* (1949), Producer
- *Roughshod* (1949), Executive Producer
- *Rachel and the Stranger* (1948), Executive Producer
- *Race Street* (1948), Executive Producer
- *Return of the Bad Men* (1948), Executive Producer
- *Night Song* (1948), Executive Producer
- *They Won't Believe Me* (1947), Executive Producer
- *Riff-Raff* (1947), Executive Producer
- *The Woman on the Beach* (1947), Executive Producer
- *A Likely Story* (1947), Executive Producer
- *Trail Street* (1947), Executive Producer
- *The Locket* (1946), Executive Producer
- *Nocturne* (1946), Executive Producer
- *Crack-Up* (1946), Producer
- *Bedlam* (1946), Executive Producer
- *Badman's Territory* (1946), Executive Producer
- *From This Day Forward* (1946), Executive Producer
- *Johnny Angel* (1945), Executive Producer
- *George White's Scandals* (1945), Executive Producer
- *Isle of the Dead* (1945), Executive Producer
- *First Yank into Tokyo* (1945), Executive Producer
- *The Body Snatcher* (1945), Executive Producer
- *China Sky* (1945), Executive Producer
- *The Enchanted Cottage* (1945), Executive Producer
- *Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves* (1944), Executive Producer
- *Son of Dracula* (1943), Executive Producer
- *Phantom of the Opera* (1943), Executive Producer
- *The Wolf Man* (1941), Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-man.md)
- *The Bank Dick* (1940), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-bank-dick.md)

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