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5 unusual facts about Ben Cross


Almon, Mateh Binyamin

The 1988 HBO movie Steal the Sky, starring Mariel Hemingway and Ben Cross, was partially filmed in Anatot, which was used as a location substitute for Iraq.

Assisi Network

The activities of the network were the subject of a 1978 book, The Assisi Underground by Alexander Ramati and a subsequent film in 1985, starring Ben Cross.

Harry Cross

Ben Cross (born 1947), English actor (real name Harry Cross)

Jackson Scholz

During the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, an American Express credit card commercial ("Don't leave home without it") included Ben Cross and the 87-year-old Scholz.

S.S. Doomtrooper

Transformed by a mad scientist (played by Ben Cross), it is meant to battle the invading Allied troops, but instead turns on its creators.


Pig's trotters

In the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Sybil Gordon (Alice Krige) are out to dinner when Sybil orders "her favorite" and Harold says, "for two".


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Jamie Elman

Recent roles include starring opposite Armand Assante in California Dreaming which won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival; portraying a young Sigmund Freud, again opposite Assante and Ben Cross, in When Nietzsche Wept; and on the small screen, where he improvised with Larry David in HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.