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Harry Bernard Cross (16 December 1947 – 18 August 2020) was an English stage and film actor. He was best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire and for playing Billy Flynn in the original West End production of the musical Chicago .
Actor. Producer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 2:32. Prey for the Devil (2022) 25 Videos. 51 Photos. Ben Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross on December 16, 1947, in London, England. He was the son of Catherine (O'Donovan), a cleaning woman, from Keelraheen, Dunmanway, Ireland, and Harry Cross, an English doorman and nurse.
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Aug 19, 2020 · Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images. Actor Ben Cross, who was best known for playing athlete Harold Abrahams in the film Chariots of Fire, has died at the age of 72. His other roles included the...
Ben Cross was a British actor who starred in Chariots of Fire (1981), The Citadel (1983) and The Far Pavilions (1984). He died in 2020 at age 72 after a long career in film, theater and television.
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Aug 19, 2020 · The actor Ben Cross, who has died of cancer aged 72, took the film world by storm in the Oscar-winning Chariots of Fire when he played Harold Abrahams, the British Jewish athlete driven as a...
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Aug 18, 2020 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ben Cross, an actor who starred in the Academy Award-winning film “Chariots of Fire” and “Star Trek,” has died. He was 72. His representative Tracy Mapes said the actor died Tuesday after a short illness. The actor’s daughter, Lauren Cross, said her father died in Vienna, Austria. A family statement called Cross a ...
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Aug 18, 2020 · Aug. 18, 2020. Ben Cross, the actor best known to one generation for playing a determined runner in the 1981 Academy Award-winning film “Chariots of Fire” and to another audience decades...