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Herbert Ross

American choreographer and film & theatre director (1927–2001)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Herbert David Ross was an American choreographer, director, and producer, who was active in both theatre and film. He was known for his work on Broadway as a choreographer for productions for Barbra Streisand, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and Arthur Laurents. His credits included A Tree Grows in Brooklyn in 1951, Finian's Rainbow in 1960, I Can Get It for You Wholesale in 1962, and Do I Hear a Waltz? in 1965. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Choreography for Anyone Can Whistle in 1964.

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“Herbert Ross” enters the record as american choreographer and film & theatre director (1927–2001). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Herbert, Ross and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1960, 1962, 1965—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Herbert, Ross and American.
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“Herbert Ross” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Herbert, Ross and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1960, 1962 and 1965.

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This entry incorporates text from “Herbert Ross” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.