Ben Cross Biography, Age, Career, Net Worth, Family

English film and stage actor, Harry Bernard Cross was born on December 16th, 1947 in London in the United Kingdom.

He was the child of doorman Harry Cross and cleaner Catherine O’Donovan. Cross was eight years old when his father passed away from TB.

Cross was raised in the Catholic faith of his Irish mother in the London area of Tulse Hill, despite the fact that his father belonged to the Church of England.

Cross died at the age of 72 on August 18th, 2020 at Vienna in Austria.

Ben Cross nationality

Cross was born in London in the United Kingdom. He is English.

Ben Cross age

Cross was born on December 16th, 1947, he was 72 years at the time of his death.

Ben Cross net worth

Cross w as worth $4 million.

Ben Cross career

As a hired hand, Cross began his career by working as a window washer, waiter, and joiner. Also, he was the Property Master at the Birmingham theater known as The Alexandra and a carpenter for the Welsh National Opera.

He was accepted into London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1970 when he was 22 years old, although he afterward showed little enthusiasm in going the traditional art route.

In 1976, Cross made his big-screen debut in Joseph E. Levine’s epic film A Bridge Too Far, which also starred Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and James Caan. For the role of Trooper Binns, Cross traveled to Deventer, Netherlands.

Cross received praise and a recommendation for a prominent role in the 1981 multi-Oscar-winning movie Chariots of Fire during his performance in Chicago.

The movie was based on the real-life experiences of two Olympic competitors in 1924: Harold Abrahams, an English Jew, and fervent Scottish Christian, Eric Liddell. devoted a lot of time to cross-training for his role as Abrahams; Ian Charleson played Liddell.

Following Chariots of Fire, Cross appeared in The Citadel, a 10-part BBC Television dramatization of A. J. Cronin’s novel, as a Scottish doctor struggling with the politics of the British medical system during the 1920s, and as Ashton (Ash) Pelham-Martyn, a British cavalry officer caught between two cultures in the ITV miniseries The Far Pavilions.

In a historic overturn of a prior decision, Actors’ Equity in the United States let Cross to act in John Guare’s off-Broadway production Lydie Breeze in 1982.

He then took James Garner’s place as the star of the 1986 Polaroid Spectra camera commercial. Cross was also highlighted in GQ Magazine in January 1985 as one of the yearly “Manstyle” winners, and in March 1985, the magazine published a featured photo shoot.

In 2000, Cross portrayed Ikey Solomon in the Australian play The Potato Factory. Cross, a proponent of the death penalty, played a death row inmate in Bruce Graham’s play Coyote on a Fence in 2005 at the Duchess Theatre.

After 2012, Cross appeared in a number of unimportant movies but also in The Hurricane Heist, which brought in US$32.5 million at the box office. He co-starred with Whoopi Goldberg in the 2019 movie Master of Dark Shadows, which received a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes, making it his second movie to do so after Paperhouse.

In addition, Cross was a musician, writer, and director. He co-authored the lyrics for an album with Bulgarian singer Vasil Petrov, which was released in the latter part of 2007. He also created screenplays, articles, and music for English-language media.

“Mickey Moonshine,” Cross’s first record as a lyricist, was issued by Polydor Records in the late 1970s. Cross had the idea for the stage name when he thought back to his earlier career in the music business as a session singer for Decca Records between 1972 and 1974.

He recorded the song “Name it, You Got it” around this period, and it had some airplay on the British Northern soul scene. The Best We’ve Ever Had and Almost Midnight, both written by Cross and directed by his son Theo, are some of his other musical compositions.

His daughter Lauren wrote, produced, and sang on the Almost Midnight original soundtrack. Edinburgh hosted performances of these pieces in 2002 and 2003, respectively.

Ben Cross family and siblings

Cross was born to Harry Cross and Catherine O’Donovan. He shares the same parents with his sister, Lauren Cross.

Ben Cross wife

Cross was married to Deyana Boneva before his death.

Ben Cross children

Cross has two children; Theo Cross and Lauren Cross.