'All in the Family' scribe Mickey Ross dies

May 29, 2009 Comedy writer and producer Mickey Ross, an Emmy winner who worked on "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons" and "Three's Company," died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke and heart attack. Ross was a writer, story editor and executive producer for 81 episodes of the show. Ross and West also wrote for and executive produced "The Jeffersons," the "All in the Family" spinoff about an African-American family movin' on up, then wrote and produced episodes of another hit sitcom, ABC's "Three's Company."

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