Nat Ross (June 13, 1902 – February 24, 1941) was an American film director and producer of the

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. He directed more than 60 films between 1922 and 1931, and produced films until 1937. He was born in

San Francisco, California San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

. He was shot dead in Los Angeles in 1941 by a disgruntled employee whom Ross had fired from the plant where Ross was working as foreman. He was the nephew of producer

Carl Laemmle Carl Laemmle (; born Karl Lämmle ; January 17, 1867 – September 24, 1939) was a German-American film producer and the co-founder and, until 1934, owner of Universal Pictures. He produced or worked on over 400 films. Regarded as one of the ...

Partial filmography

* '' Ridin' Wild'' (1922) * '' The Galloping Kid'' (1922) * '' The Ghost Patrol'' (1923) * '' Pure Grit'' (1923) * '' The Six-Fifty'' (1923) * '' The Slanderers'' (1924) * '' Striving for Fortune'' (1926) * '' April Fool'' (1926) * '' Two Can Play'' (1926) * '' Transcontinental Limited'' (1926) * '' Stop That Man!'' (1928) * '' College Love'' (1929) * '' The Man from Guntown'' (1935) * '' Darby and Joan'' (1937)

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