He portrayed the real-life Jewish sprinter Harold Abrahams in the Oscar winner for best picture.
A stint on stage as Roxie Hart's lawyer Billy Flynn in the musicalled to him being cast as Abrahams — a winner at the 1924 Summer Games in Paris — in Hugh Hudson'sIn preparing for the role, Cross said he"came to the conclusion that Abrahams was motivated by a combination of prejudice and paranoia," hein a 2012 interview."I played Harold as a man whose pilot light was always lit. There was this quiet defensive anger, and occasionally the boiler would light up.
Cross said he trained by myself for three months after accepting the role."Then we had six months training prior to filming," he said.for ABC and MGM, Captain Nemo in a 1997 CBS telefilm adaptation of
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