Career
Jack Gross Junior. (February 4, 1929 – December 14, 2007) was an American film screenwriter and television situation comedy writer Gross was born in Fort Worth, Texas. His father, Jack O. Gross, founded KFMB-television, the first television station in San Diego in May 1949.
He wrote the screenplays for Clay Pigeon and Welcome to Arrow Beach (1974).
On television, he wrote episodes of Gilligan"s Island, Diff"rent Strokes and My Favorite Martian. He was a graduate of San Fernando Valley State College, now known as CSUN, and the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
Gross died of heart failure in Louisiana Jolla, California.