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Joe E. Ross (born Joseph Roszawikz, March 15, 1914 – August 13, 1982) was an American actor known for his trademark "Ooh! Ooh!" exclamation, which he used in many of his roles. He starred in such TV sitcoms as ''The Phil Silvers Show'' and ''Car 54, Where Are You?.''〔 ==Career== Ross was born on March 15, 1914 to Jewish immigrant parents in New York, New York.〔 He dropped out of Seward Park High School at 16 to become a singing waiter at the Van Cortlandt Inn in the Bronx. When the cafe added a female dancer and singer, Ross was promoted to announcer. He added some jokes and became a comedian. In 1938, he appeared at the Queens Terrace, near Jackson Heights, New York. Jackie Gleason had already been playing there for 16 weeks, and the manager was about to ask Gleason to stay a while longer. Ross heard of the opening, auditioned for it, got the contract, and also stayed 16 weeks. Ross then turned burlesque comic on the Schuster circuit out of Chicago. His career was interrupted by World War II. He served in the United States Army Air Corps at Camp Blanding, Florida, before being stationed in England. Discharged at the war's end, Ross became an announcer-comic at Billy Gray's Band Box in Hollywood. He kept his ties to burlesque, and appeared in Irving Klaw's feature-length theatrical film ''Teaserama'' (1955), a re-creation of a burlesque show. In 1955, Ross worked at a nightclub in Miami Beach called Ciro's.〔( 'Miami Swank—and Its Opposite' By Thomas Hine "Interior designer George Farkas ... designed Miami Beach’s Ciro’s nightclub" )〕〔(Miami Beach "Ciro's" )〕〔(Ciros, Miami Beach 1949 )〕〔(Nightclubs: Long Ago On Miami Beach, "Ciro's: At Alton Road and Dade Boulevard" )〕 He was spotted by Nat Hiken and Phil Silvers, who were planning ''You'll Never Get Rich'' (later known as ''The Phil Silvers Show'' and sometimes ''Sgt. Bilko'') and loved Ross's comedy skills. Ross was hired on the spot and cast as the mess sergeant, Rupert Ritzik. Ross made Ritzik memorable. Ritzik was henpecked, dumb, and greedy, always an easy mark for Bilko's schemes. Whenever Ritzik had a sudden inspiration, he would hesitate and stammer "Ooh! Ooh!" before articulating his idea. The catch phrase came from the actor's own frustration when he couldn't remember his lines. Silvers would deliberately stray from the scripted dialogue and give Ross the wrong cues, prompting a genuinely confused reaction and an agonized "Ooh! Ooh!" from Ross. After ''The Phil Silvers Show'' ended in 1959, Nat Hiken went on to produce ''Car 54, Where Are You?'' and cast Joe E. Ross as Patrolman Gunther Toody of New York's 53rd Precinct. Fred Gwynne, another ''Bilko'' alumnus, played Toody's partner, Francis Muldoon. Toody could usually be counted on at some point to say, "Ooh! Ooh!" or "Do you mind? Do - you - mind?". Ross became so identified with his policeman role that he recorded an album of songs entitled "Love Songs from a Cop". Roulette Records released the LP in 1964. Ross did the voice for Toody for the episode "Car 54" of Hanna-Barbera's ''Wait Till Your Father Gets Home'', in which Toody and Muldoon moonlight running a day care center and one of the children turns up missing. Ross also starred as Gronk in Sherwood Schwartz's ill-fated 1966 sitcom ''It's About Time'', which featured two 1960s American astronauts who were thrown back in time to the prehistoric era. Ross also was a prominent cartoon voice into the 1970s, playing the stereotypical bumbling sergeant in many cartoons such as ''Hong Kong Phooey'' (as Sgt. Flint) and ''Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch'' (as Botch). He also voiced Roll On CB Bears segment Shake, Rattle and Roll. His "Ooh! Ooh!" phrase was emulated by Frank Welker in the animated series ''Fangface''. He was also one of the few white comedians with 1970's label Laff Records, which specialized in African-American comedians and released his album ''Should Lesbians Be Allowed to Play Pro-Football?''.〔"(King of Slobs: The Life of Joe E. Ross )," by Listener Kliph Nesteroff, WFMU, January 30, 2011.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe E. Ross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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