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Filmography

Passchendaele - ( Director / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Passchendaele - ( Screenplay / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Passchendaele - ( Michael Dunne / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Passchendaele - ( Co-Producer / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Wilby Wonderful - ( / 2004 / Released / )

Men With Brooms - ( Director / 2002 / Released / )

Men With Brooms - ( Producer / 2002 / Released / )

Men With Brooms - ( Screenplay / 2002 / Released / )

Men With Brooms - ( Chris Cutter / 2002 / Released / )

Whale Music - ( Daniel Howl / 1995 / Released / Alliance Releasing )

Paint Cans - ( Morton Ridgewell / 1994 / Released / Libra Films )

Aspen Extreme - ( T J Burke / 1993 / Released / )

Buried on Sunday - ( / 1992 / Released / Alliance Releasing )

Cold Comfort - ( Stephen / 1989 / Released / )

Getting Married in Buffalo Jump - ( Alex / 1989 / Released / )

TV Credits

Murder Most Likely ( 2000 / Released ): Executive Producer / Actor

Red Green Live '99 ( 1999 / Released ): Actor

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1997 / Released ): Actor

Canadian Country Music Awards ( 1997 / Released ): Actor

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City ( 1994 / Released ): Actor

Due South ( 1994 / Released ): Actor

XXX's & OOO's ( 1994 / Released ): Actor

Due South ( Released ): Executive Producer / Writer / Actor

The Ray Bradbury Theater ( Released ): Actor

The Real Patsy Kline ( Released ): Co-Executive Producer

Full Biography (Back to top)

A stalwart leading man best known in the USA and internationally as Benton Fraser, the Canadian Mountie who moves to Chicago to solve crimes in the CBS series "Due South", Paul Gross was also a successful TV writer in his native Canada. "Due South" first aired as a TV-movie in April 1994, with Gross' character heading to Chicago and teaming with a detective there (David Marciano) in order to catch a thug. CBS put the show on its fall 1994 schedule, where it attracted a following. Gross had previously appeared on American TV in PBS' "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City," in which he was Brian Hawkins, the "straight" suitor of Laura Linney, and in an episode of "The Ray Bradbury Theatre". On Canadian TV, he had extensive acting and writing credits. Gross was one of the writers on "For the Record", a successful series there. He began acting in feature films in Canada as well. Gross appeared in "Cold Comfort" and was the ranch hand in "Getting Married in Buffalo Jump" (both 1989). He was the lead in "Buried on Sunday" (1992), and played a ski instructor in "Aspen Extreme" (1993), among other credits. Stage roles, all in Canada, include Brick in a production of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

Profession(s):
screenwriter, Actor, producer, playwright, singer, songwriter, director, box office gofer, waiter

Sometimes Credited As:
Paul Michael Gross

Family
brother:Anthony Gross (younger)
daughter:Hannah Gross (born in 1990)
father:Robert Gross (served as a Tank Commander in the Canadian army; operated Badland Books (www.badlandsbooks.ab.ca))
mother:Renie Gross
son:Jack Gross (born in 1994)
wife:Martha Burns (married in September 1988; won Genie Award for supporting work as the maid in a film version of "Long Day's Journey Into Night")

Education
Cheswyks Prepatory School Camberley, Surrey, England
Earl Haig Secondary School Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada drama

Awards (Back to top)

Chrysler's Canada's Choice Award "Due South" 1999

Gemini Award Best Writing in a Dramatic Series "Due South" 1998

Gemini Award Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role "Due South" 1996

Gemini Award Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role "Due South" 1995

Dora Mavor Moore Award Outstanding Featured Male (Drama/Comedy) "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" 1988

Milestones (Back to top)

2002 Feature directorial debut, "Men With Brooms", a comedy about a curling team; also co-wrote, produced and starred

2000 Exeuctive produced and starred as a corrupt Royal Canadian Mountie in the TNT movie "Murder Most Likely"

2000 Produced and starred in the Canadian TV series "Steelstring", playing a former rock singer turned private investigator

1999 Played title role in "Hamlet" at Stratford, Ontario; singing partner David Keeley was cast as Horatio

1997 Reprised role in syndicated series version of "Due South"; also wrote episodes

1997 Acted in the CBS adaptation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

1994 Co-starred in "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City"

1994 - 1996 Starred in "Due South" TV-movie and subsequent CBS series

1993 Wrote the teleplay, "Gross Misconduct" about hockey player Brian Spencer; directed by Atom Egoyan

1992 Had lead in "Buried on Sunday"

1989 Starred as Brick in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" at Manitoba Theatre Center

1989 Made film debut, "Cold Comfort"

1986 Play "Buchanan", about a surgeon, opened at the Toronto Free Theatre

1985 Wrote book and lyrics and co-composed score for the stage musical "Thunder, Perfect Mind"; also acted alongside future wife Martha Burns

1985 Penned the teleplay for "In This Corner", directed by Atom Egoyan

1984 Played Romeo in "Romeo and Juliet"

1982 Debut as a playwright with "The Deer and the Antelope Play" at Edmonton's Theatre Network; later that year second play "The Dead of Winter" was also produced

1980 Professional stage debut as Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Edmonton's Northern Light Theatre

Because of father's army career, childhood was spent in various places, including Germany, England and Washington, DC

Began performing career at age 14, appearing in commercials

At age 16, spent summer working in the box office of the Statford Festival

Performed with a band called The Bonemen in the 1980s to the early 1990s

Wrote for Canadian TV series, "For the Record"

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