Actor Ben Cross has died

I just just watched him in the film The Assisi Underground RIP

Who?

He was an Englishman.

He had a hot ass but he couldn't live forever.

So young.

Wow! He's young. He was in Chariots of Fire, an Oscar winning film, you dolts. He was quite lovely actually.

BTW, how young was he? I felt it right to say, but the reception up here is terrible.

[quote]R3 He was an Englishman.

Well, we know what that means.

Uggh.

He starred in [italic]Chariots of Fire[/italic]. The blond guy is Nigel Havers. Cross was handsome and talented.

Read he was 72 and died in Vienna, after a short illness.

I'd like to die somewhere elegant, like Vienna or Paris. Not like Waco or Sarasota.

Fucking loved him. Hot man.

He should have had a much bigger career. Handsome and a very good actor.

I wonder why he didn't.

Nigel Havers was cute too R9. Neither he nor Cross had big movie careers. Theater perhaps? Havers did a lot on TV.

I stared at his crotch all through Chariots of Fire when I was a kid. Ah memories....

Sarek II.

Yes, R10, I would like to exit with Orson Welles filming it with lighting by James Wong Howe and music by Eric Wolfgang Korngold.

Ah, Korngold.

Very sad. I remember him not only in Chariots but in Dark Shadows, the 90s series.

He was beautiful and just perfect for his role in CHARIOTS. RIP.

he was so hot in Chariots. I was 8 when it came out and my mom took me to see it. I was so mesmerized by him. He became a total type for me - I'm obsessed with tall patrician English guys.

[quote]Wow! He's young.

72? He is just a baby!

Oh no :(

Oh no. I remember him as Barnabas in the 1991 Dark Shadows. It was cancelled way too soon. I loved him in that role. It is sad to hear about his death.

72 is young to die these days, R21. Many people make it into their 80s and 90s now.

He isn't really dead, though. He's a vampire, after all.

Tso Yung.

[quote] Wow! He's young. He was in Chariots of Fire, an Oscar winning film, you dolts. He was quite lovely actually.

Okay I take it back. He wasn't young. He was 72. My how time flies.

If he was 72, that must mean I'm ...

Ian Charleson was the other lead in Chariots of Fire. He died of AIDS

[quote]he was so hot in Chariots. I was 8 when it came out and my mom took me to see it. I was so mesmerized by him. He became a total type for me - I'm obsessed with tall patrician English guys.

you must have had a very vivid imagination R20, the whole point of the movie was that his character was Jewish and an "outsider"

and Cross himself was neither patrician nor Engilish

Cross was born Harry Bernard Cross, in London, to a working class Catholic family, with Irish ancestry.[1][2][3] His mother was a cleaning woman and his father a doorman and nurse.

He was so sexy as Barnabas in the Dark Shadows revival. As I recall, the series got caught with scheduling pre-emptions due to the Gulf War and writers strike issues.

Live not so long and prosper.

OMG. I knew him. He was lovely. I worked on a project he was in a long time ago in Bulgaria. He was very friendly and very down to earth . He said something super nice to me, which still ranks in the top 5 best compliments I ever received, after all these years. R. I. P. Ben, you were a gentleman.

r32 Did he compliment your sphinctral grip strength?

Link.

R33 that was very distasteful even for datalounge. You're a cunt.

Ben Cross ruined Chariots of Fire

R16 Do you want the cinematography in colour or black and white?

Nice picture, R34. He has a lantern jaw, but seems like an affable fellow.

I still feel like someone big is going to sicken and die this year. Maybe Hollywood type or some other type...I know who I'd like it to be, but hey...

How big R39?

oh cut me a break - i was 8 and living in New Jersey. Any English accent sounded posh to me.

R41 he was not very tall either.

"How bleak was my puberty."

i was 8 and living in New Jersey

[quote]He said something super nice to me, which still ranks in the top 5 best compliments I ever received, after all these years.

"You are NOT the most annoying person I've met today."

R45 this is WORD for WORD, what he said to me. How did you know ???

Regardless of how lower-class or Catholic Ben Cross may have started out, he succeeded in making me want to suck Harold Abrahams' delightfully Jewish schlong every time I saw Chariots of Fire.

Thank goodness there were no full frontal scenes!

Good actor. RIP.

Say WHAT, R48???

"Ben Cross ruined Chariots of Fire"

You're just going to drop this in the comments and not even explain WHY you think it's so?

r50 It would've been difficult for a likely uncircumcised Cross to play a Jew if frontal nudity were required.

Ohhhhhhh...yeah, r52. Those days, I didn't think about circumcision or uncircumcision. Good point.

I remember him well as Barnabas Collins in the revival series of Dark Shadows. It put him in the spotlight and he got a lot of publicity. Shortly afterwards I remember seeing him in a horror movie at the theater but I've forgotten the name of the film.

Handsome guy back in the day.

He had strong features, too strong.

His only big film was 4 decades ago.

[quote]He should have had a much bigger career. Handsome and a very good actor. I wonder why he didn't.

Hee was a bore and had no charisma.

^^ Melania?

R52 Stunt penis!

I get you, r10. I've always thought I'd like to die in Venice.

[quote]I'd like to die somewhere elegant, like Vienna or Paris. Not like Waco or Sarasota.

We'll always have Canarsie!

He was good in the movie Paperhouse

Condolances to his daughter Marcia.

I had a massive crush on Ben Cross, a very beautiful man with strong features. A little bit of trivia, Ben went through grueling workouts to get in shape for “Chariots of Fire”. I always get chills at the beginning of the film when they show the runners at the beach.

[quote]The blond guy is Nigel Havers. Cross was handsome and talented.

I thought Nigel Havers had a beautiful smile, very cute blonde man.

So many cute actors where in Chariots of Fire, including the late Brad Davis and Dennis Christopher.

Another one of his "Chariots" co-stars died recently (June 19) too.

nicholas farrell was also one of the runners and was rather easy on the eyes also

Yeah, there were a lot of cute guys in that movie

Didn't know his name but recognized his face immediately. RIP.

Cross also played the villain in the King Arthur movie, "First Knight" (1995) opposite Sean Connery & Richard Gere:

[quote] Wow! He's young.

He was 72

[quote]He was in Chariots of Fire, an Oscar winning film, you dolts.

That movie is almost 40 years old.

Someone few people know and less people care about has died of Coronavirus and they covered it up.

Typical.

I have even less interest in what this whey-faced Brit has to say than Julia Roberts does.

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