Meet Stanley Ross
Stanley grew up in New York City and attended Pace University to study accounting. While he grew up watching old movies on the late late show with his parents, he continued to focus on finance. But he remained mesmerized by Charles Laughton’s command especially so in the movie Witness for the Prosecution when Laughton questioned Marlene Dietrich who was providing Tyrone Power with an alibi for the night of a murder.
While working for a N.Y. stock exchange energy company, he wanted to improve his public speaking skills so he took a college acting class. After the term concluded, the professor asked him if he wanted to audition for a role in, The Boys Next Door. His response was “Are you nuts? I'm a CAO and I don't have time for this” Well, he was talked into it and was cast in the role of a guy who was taking a golf lesson from a schizophrenic at a dollar an hour. As you can imagine, Stanley fell in love with acting. His employer was later sold and he found himself unemployed so he went back to college at the University of Missouri at Kansas City to study acting.
Stanley started his acting career by working in regional theatre, playing the lead in Wally’s Café, playing Paul Newman’s brother Gooper in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Shelly Winter’s husband in The Diary of Anne Frank. While working on stage productions, he found himself going into a zone where all he saw was his acting partner and the fourth wall.
After six years of theatre, he then decided that he wanted to branch out into film. For the last six years he has been working on roles in independently made movies, several appearing on Amazon Prime.
Stanley lives in midtown Manhattan and he is a major league fan of Turner Classic Movies. His favorite actors are Humphrey Bogart, Al Pacino and Daniel Day-Lewis. Stanley volunteers his time at the local battered women’s shelter. He is an avid golfer, bicyclist and no limit Texas hold-em player.