---
name: "Michael C. Gross"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-c-gross"
fi1m_id: "michael-c-gross"
imdb_id: "nm0343453"
tmdb_id: 8860
wikidata_id: "Q6829024"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "4 October 1945"
died: "16 November 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-04T23:23:10.645315+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."
---

# Michael C. Gross

## Identity

Michael C. Gross

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-c-gross
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-c-gross
- **IMDb ID:** nm0343453
- **TMDB ID:** 8860
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6829024
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Gross, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8860

Producer. Born 4 October 1945 in Newburgh, New York, USA. Died 16 November 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 4 October 1945, Newburgh, New York, USA
- **Died:** 16 November 2015
- **Active:** 1984–1993
- **Frequently works with:** [Bonnie Hunt](https://film.one/person/bonnie-hunt.md), [Charles Grodin](https://film.one/person/charles-grodin.md), [Joe Medjuck](https://film.one/person/joe-medjuck.md), [Nicholle Tom](https://film.one/person/nicholle-tom.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as producer, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 68 (3), 1990s 61 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 59 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 6, Family 2, Fantasy 2
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,196m across 6 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_C._Gross, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6829024, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0343453/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8860

## Biography

Michael C. Gross (1945–2015) was an American film producer and graphic designer. He worked as art director at National Lampoon magazine from 1970 to 1974 before moving into film production in the early 1980s.

Gross served as associate producer on Ghostbusters (1984), for which he designed the film's logo, and as executive producer or producer on Ghostbusters II (1989), Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Beethoven (1992), Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) and Dave (1993). He also worked as second unit director on several of these films and as executive producer on the television series The Real Ghostbusters.

He was born in Newburgh, New York, and died in Oceanside, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), Fi1m 57, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/beethovens-2nd.md)
- *Beethoven* (1992), Fi1m 60, Producer, Second Unit Director — [page](https://film.one/film/beethoven.md)
- *Kindergarten Cop* (1990), Fi1m 65, Second Unit Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/kindergarten-cop.md)
- *Ghostbusters II* (1989), Fi1m 60, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-ii.md)
- *Twins* (1988), Fi1m 64, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Fi1m 80, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Beethoven's 2nd* (1993), Producer — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/beethovens-2nd.md)
- *Dave* (1993), Executive Producer, Second Unit Director
- *Beethoven* (1992), Producer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/beethoven.md)
- *Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot* (1992), Producer
- *Kindergarten Cop* (1990), Executive Producer, Second Unit Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/kindergarten-cop.md)
- *Ghostbusters II* (1989), Executive Producer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters-ii.md)
- *Twins* (1988), Executive Producer — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/twins.md)
- *Big Shots* (1987), Producer
- *Legal Eagles* (1986), Executive Producer
- *Ghostbusters* (1984), Associate Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ghostbusters.md)
- *Heavy Metal* (1981), Production Design

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