Ben Cross

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-12-16 (73 years old)

Deathday

2020-08-18

Place of Birth

London, England, UK

Ben Cross

Biography

Ben Cross (16 December 1947 - 18 August 2020) was a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire and as Sarek in the 2009 reboot film Star Trek. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ben Cross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Acting

2006

Wicked Little Things

as Aaron Hanks

1995

First Knight

as Malagant

2011

Ice

as Stephen

2008

Lost City Raiders

as Nicholas Filiminov

1981

Chariots of Fire

as Harold Abrahams

2004

Spartacus

as Titus Glabrus

1992

Live Wire

as Mikhail Rashid

2005

The Russian Specialist

as William Burton

1997

Turbulence

as Captain Samuel Bowen

2009

Star Trek

as Sarek

1988

2007

Species: The Awakening

as Tom Hollander

2001

The Order

as Ben Ner

2005

Icon

as Anatoly Grishin

2007

2007

When Nietzsche Wept

as Josef Breuer

2006

S.S. Doomtrooper

as Professor Ullman

2011

Super Tanker

as Jordan

2007

Grendel

as King Hrothgar

1998

Tower of the First Born

as Michael Shannon / Zadick

2012

Black Forest

as Cazmar

1997

Solomon

as Salomone

1988

The Unholy

as Father Michael

2013

2001

Young Blades

as Cardinal Richelieu

1982

Coming Out of the Ice

as Gen. Tuchachevsky

1993

Cold Sweat

as Mark Cahill

2013

Jack the Giant Killer

as Agent Hinton

1995

Hellfire

as Marius Carnot

1993

Deep Trouble

as Campagna

1989

Nightlife

as Vlad

1997

1985

The Assisi Underground

as Padre Rufino

1988

Steal the Sky

as Munir Redfa

1985

Attention

as Alberto

2010

The Guardian

as Sergeant

-

Liberty

as Dr. Boucher

1991

1993

The Criminal Mind

as Carlo Augustine

2014

Another Love Building

as Stephen Anderson

1997

The Corporate Ladder

as Jay Williams

2011

William & Kate

as Prince of Wales

2001

The Red Phone: Manhunt

as Nigel Ballister

2004

The Red Phone: Checkmate

as Nigel Ballister

1979

The Winkler

as Terry Jones

2014

Viking Quest

as King Orn

1989

1994

The Ascent

as Major Farrell

2008

War, Inc.

as Medusa Hair

1986

Strong Medicine

as Martin Taylor

1977

A Bridge Too Far

as Trooper Binns

2009

Hellhounds

as King Leander

1999

The Venice Project

as Rudy Mestry / Bishop Orsini

1995

Temptress

as Dr. Samudaya

1996

2008

Hero Wanted

as Cosmo Jackson

2019

Jarhead: Law of Return

as USMC General Betz

1991

She Stood Alone

as William Lloyd Garrison

2022

Prey for the Devil

as Cardinal Matthews

2020

The Rest Is Ashes

as Old George Smith

1982

2021

The Last Letter from Your Lover

as Older Anthony O'Hare

2021

1972

The Reprieve

as Bolshevik

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