Yoram Gross was a Polish-born Australian producer of children’s and family entertainment best known for his adaptation of children’s characters from books and films.
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Yoram Gross is mostly recognized for the production of the films Blinky Bill: The Mischievous Koala and Dot and the Kangaroo. He was born Yoram Jerzy Gross on 18 October 1926 in Kraków, Poland.
Yoram Gross was raised alongside a brother, the Jewish film director Natan Gross. He endured World War II under the Nazi regime. Regarding his educational background, Yoram Gross studied music and musicology at Kraków University. He first made his debut in the film industry in 1947 in Kraków.
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Yoram Gross was 20 years old at the time and had become one of the first students of Jerzy Toeplitz (founder of the Polish Film Institute, the Swiss Film Institute and the Australian Film and Television School). He was married to Sandra Gross.

In 1967, Yoram Gross and his wife Sandra migrated to Australia and lived in Sydney. They later established Yoram Gross Film Studio and were initially working from home. Gross had won over 80 international awards for his various films while alive and had been honoured in the 1995 Australia Day Honours with a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to the Australian film industry.
Yoram Gross Cause Of Death
Yoram Gross died on 21 September 2015 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at the age of 88. Yoram Gross died of natural causes.


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