In addition to his brilliant film productions, Ross also produces Billy Graham's weekly radio program. Here, in a rare moment at home in Sherman Oaks, Ca lif., he relaxes with his children, 4-year-old Ricky and 9-year-old Sylvia.
A Man and His Mission I t was a routine bombing mission by planes of the 15th Air Force based in Italy in 1944. The target was a German industrial center and navigator for one of the big four- engined B-24 Liberators was Dick Ross. The mission was com pleted but navigator Ross and his plane did not return. For the next 10 months young Ross was in a German prisoner of war camp. It was during these days when life was a flickering hour- by-hour affair that Dick Ross made plans to produce top-rate Christian movies. Today Ross at 36 is head of Great Commis sion Films in Hollywood and is recognized among evangelicals as being the top man in the Christian film industry (his pro ductions include, “Mid-Century Crusade,” “ The Flame,” “Mr. Texas,” “Oiltown, USA,” “Dead Men on Furlough” and in cooperation with Anglo-Scottish Pictures, “ Souls in Conflict” ). Ross works with the drive (often around the clock) of a man with a mission and that mission is using the dramatic technique as a tool for evangelism.
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