Channeling Your Higher Self, Explore Your Past Lives, Meditation and Self Hypnosis all based on the writings of Edgar Cayce. Other work Ross was also a songwriter, composing over 200 pieces, collaborating with such talent as Henry Mancini. He wrote "Beat the System," the theme song for The Kallikaks, which Roy Clark performed for the opening credits of the show in 1977. He also made a foray into musical theater, co-writing and co-composing the musical Love Is Spoken Here with Jacquelyn Reinach. Wrote and produced “A Play With Fire” in Dundee, Scotland Wrote the play Chaplin with Anthony Newley. He also taught at the University of Southern California film school. In collaboration with Jay Robert Nash, Ross authored The Motion Picture Guide, a comprehensive multi-volume set of encyclopedias written from the 1970s to the early 1980s, containing detailed descriptions of possibly every motion picture made up to that time, with a two-volume index, and a separate volume entirely dedicated to silent films, and yet another listing every actor (and other major creative credit) with that person's complete list of films. The regular encyclopedia editions alphabetized every sound feature from 1927 until 1983, the last volume having a separate section in the back for 1984 movies (and the deaths of that year) that were compiled too close to press time to include alphabetically among the other listings; and starting in 1985 until the early 1990s, an individual volume was released annually, with an obituary section for that year also included. It used a five-star rating system, and was perhaps the most complete single project to catalog every movie until the creation of The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Ross became an ordained minister, marrying Burt Ward, who starred as Robin on the 1960s Batman series, to his third wife. Death Ross died of lung cancer on March 16, 2000 leaving behind a wife and three children. He was buried in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery. His grave reads: Larger Than Life Beloved Son, Husband, Father, Grandfather STANLEY RALPH ROSS July 22, 1935 * March 16, 2000 "Thanks, I Had A Wonderful Time!" References External links http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/54390/filmography.jhtml http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/21861.html http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/stanley-ralph-ross 1935 births 2000 deaths Male actors from New York City American television writers American male television writers American male voice actors Jewish American writers Jewish American male actors Writers from New York City Deaths from lung cancer in California Songwriters from New York (state) Wide