Michael Gross

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Michael Edward Gross (born June 21, 1947) is an American television, film, and stage actor.

He is best known for his appearances in the sitcom Family Ties (1982–89) and Burt Gummer from the Tremors film franchise.

Early life

William Oscar Gross, a tool designer, was born in Chicago, the son of Virginia Ruth (née Cahill), a telephone operator, and William Oscar Gross, a tool designer. Gross and his younger sister, Mary, were raised Catholic. In his youth, he attended St. Francis Xavier and St. Genevieve schools in Chicago, graduating from the former in 1961.

He attended Kelvyn Park High School on the north side of Chicago, graduating in 1965. He obtained his Drama degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago before attending Yale University for his Master of Fine Arts degree. Mary, his sister, and a former Saturday Night Live cast member, is an actress. The siblings are the first cousins of actor Ron Masak.

Personal life

Gross has been married to casting director Elza Bergeron since June 2, 1984, and he is the stepfather to her two children.

Gross's co-star Meredith Baxter remains close friends with his Family Ties co-star Meredith Baxter.

Gross is a passionate railfan with a vast collection of railroad antiques. He is a freelance railroad historian, photographer, model, and part-owner of a working railroad, the Santa Fe Southern Railway, which is a former branch line of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, which runs between Lamy and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also the spokesperson for the World's Greatest Hobby Campaign, which also supports model railroading's hobby. He has also served as a spokesperson for Operation Lifesaver, a movement to improve railroad grade crossings.

Gross has been the "celebrity spokesman" for the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, since 2009. On YouTube, he is the host of the B&O Railroad Museum Television Network. He is also a member of the Santa Fe Railway Historical Society.

Gross is a fan of the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Gross suggested that Burt Gummer be capped for Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell after the Cubs won the 2016 World Series, swapping the Atlanta Hawks cap he had worn in the first five films of the series.

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Career

Gross was first seen by a broad audience in his role as Steven Keaton in the 1980s sitcom Family Ties; he and his co-star Meredith Baxter, who played his wife Elyse Keaton, were born on the same day, June 21, 1947. However, his longest-running and highest-profile role has been that of Burt Gummer in the Tremors movies and subsequent TV series, having played the role for thirty years from the release of the original Tremors in 1990 to Tremors: Shrieker Island in 2020. His performance in Tremors 3: Back to Perfection earned him a Best Actor award from the DVD Exclusive Awards, formerly known as the Video Premiere Awards.

Gross guest-starred in an episode of the sitcom Night Court, in which he played a sexual predator of Markie Post's character, Christine Sullivan. In 1988, he portrayed a murderous bank robber in the true life movie In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders. His other television credits include Boston Legal, How I Met Your Mother, Batman Beyond, ER, Parks and Recreation (Episode: "Summer Catalog"), Law & Order, and two of its spin-offs: SVU and Criminal Intent. From August 2008 to January 2009, Gross appeared on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless as River Baldwin. Gross appeared in 2000 on Spin City as a therapist to Michael J. Fox's character on Fox's final show as a regular on that program. In November 1979, Gross originated the role of Greta in the Broadway production of Martin Sherman's Bent.

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