- Won Broadway's 1975 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for playing the Cowardly Lion in "The Wiz," a role he recreated in the film version of the same name, The Wiz (1978).
- He was cremated at House of Wheat Funeral Home. His ashes were sprinkled outside downtown Dayton afterwards.
- Ted Ross was a swinger and used to throw orgies at his house.
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