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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Prey for the Devil
2022
as Cardinal Matthews
In response to a global rise in demonic possessions, the Catholic Church reopens exorcism schools to train priests in the Rite of Exorcism. On this sp...

The Last Letter from Your Lover
2021
as Older Anthony O'Hare
A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.

Rats in the Walls
2021
as Narrator
“Rats in the Walls” is a short animation that is inspired by one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most gripping horror tales. The film presents the story of a midd...

The Rest Is Ashes
2020
as Old George Smith
Atanas Burov (played by Assen Blatechki) is considered as the most influential politician in Bulgaria's history. The movie is about him and his love s...

Once There Was a War
2019
Is a war big or small for someone who has lost his life in it? It's a film-trip or, as it's called today, a road movie. The road to the war is a great...

Jarhead: Law of Return
2019
as USMC General Betz
Major Ronan Jackson, an accomplished fighter pilot for the Israel Defense Forces and son of a U.S. Senator, is shot down while flying through Syrian a...

Master of Dark Shadows
2019
as Self
Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a compelling blend of rare footage and behind-the-scenes storie...

Reign of Judges: Title of Liberty - Concept Short
2018
as King Aaron
73 BC pre-Columbian New World. A humble soldier rises unexpectedly as the protector of a young republic. Now Chief Captain of a war-weary nation, Moro...

The Hurricane Heist
2018
as Dixon
Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.

Another Love Building
2014
as Stephen Anderson
Nine couples attend a weekend retreat to mend their troubled relationships, only to find their counselors need more help than they do.

Viking Quest
2014
as King Orn
Erick, a young Viking warrior, joins forces with a rival clan in order to rescue a kidnapped princess from the great Midgard Serpent. It's a perilous ...

A Common Man
2013
as DIG
A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.

Jack the Giant Killer
2013
as Agent Hinton
A giant beanstalk brings Jack to a land in the clouds filled with snarling, evil beasts. When the creatures make their way to the ground, Jack must fi...

Black Forest
2012
as Cazmar
Tourists trapped in an enchanted forest do battle with evil fairy tale creatures.

William & Kate
2011
as Prince of Wales
Inspired by the royal wedding and retelling the highs and lows of the nine-year courtship of Kate Middleton and Prince William. The couple struggles t...

Super Tanker
2011
as Jordan
A meteorite brings a powerful element to the Earth during the Cold War, too powerful to ever be used it's contained until a decision is made to dispos...

Ice
2011
as Stephen
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacie...
The Guardian
2010
as Sergeant
A widowed mother, who lives alone in a secluded house, has a premonition that her son in the Air Force is going to die in a plane crash. No one believ...

Hellhounds
2009
as King Leander
A Greek warrior must travel to the Underworld and battle killer hellhounds in order to rescue his murdered bride from the clutches of Hades.

Star Trek
2009
as Sarek
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan...

Lost City Raiders
2008
as Nicholas Filiminov
The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings ...

War, Inc.
2008
as Medusa Hair
In the future, the desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after private corporation Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the Unite...

Hero Wanted
2008
as Cosmo Jackson
Liam Case is a garbage man whose life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected it would. In order to impress the girl of his dreams, Liam plans an ...

Species: The Awakening
2007
as Tom Hollander
A scientist, Dr Hollander, takes his niece Miranda to Mexico in an attempt to reverse the effects of the alien DNA he used to create her. However the ...

Finding Rin Tin Tin
2007
as Nikolaus
The true story of the legendary German Shepherd who was found by American pilot Lee Duncun in France during World War I, and later became the most fam...

When Nietzsche Wept
2007
as Josef Breuer
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.

Grendel
2007
as King Hrothgar
King Higlack of the Gauths entrusts prince Finn and a fire ball weapon to his champion, slayer Beowulf. They lead twelve men on a mission to help king...

Wicked Little Things
2006
as Aaron Hanks
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of...

Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
2006
as Cmdr. Tim Mackey
Navy SEALS, headed by Lt. Bobby James, are dispatched to North Korea on a covert mission, all in an effort to take out a missile site...

Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
2006
as Fabius Maximus
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destin...

Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
2006
as Steven Parker
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the...

S.S. Doomtrooper
2006
as Professor Ullman
A genetically bred Nazi super soldier fights Allied troops.

The Russian Specialist
2005
as William Burton
A Russian ex-hit man is called back to Russia for one last job. This time against his former employees, the Russian mob.

Icon
2005
as Anatoly Grishin
A former US Operative, who lived in Russia in his earlier years and had been married there with a child, comes out of retirement to face down a former...

Exorcist: The Beginning
2004
as Semelier
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.
The Red Phone: Checkmate
2004
as Nigel Ballister
The special unit "AT-13" is a top-secret, multinational anti-terrorist unit whose unconventional problem-solving methods are its trademark. It impress...

Spartacus
2004
as Titus Glabrus
Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when h...
She Me and Her
2002
About a pair of twin sisters who both want to succeed in showbiz. Problems arise when it's obvious only one sister has the talent to succeed. The othe...

The Red Phone: Manhunt
2001
as Nigel Ballister

The Order
2001
as Ben Ner
When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now,...

Young Blades
2001
as Cardinal Richelieu
Young Blades follows D'Artagnan (Hugh Dancy), a young arrogant swordsman; Radegonde (Sarah-Jane Potts), a clever girl he meets in the woods; and a tri...

The Venice Project
1999
as Rudy Mestry / Bishop Orsini
Roland is an avant-garde artist in Venice, California whose sister lives on their family's estate in Venice, Italy. Their father is near death and ann...

Tower of the First Born
1998
as Michael Shannon / Zadick
Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searchi...

Solomon
1997
as Salomone
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospecti...

The Invader
1997
as Renn
A good alien from a dying race must impregnate an Earth woman to avoid extinction of his race. A bad alien whose race helped wipe out good alien's rac...

The Corporate Ladder
1997
as Jay Williams
A new assistant to a powerful executive wants more than just to do a good job, she wants to run the company! And she'll do anything to get to the top,...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1997
as Capt. Nemo
In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows ...

Turbulence
1997
as Captain Samuel Bowen
On a flight transporting dangerous convicts, murderer Ryan Weaver manages to break free and cause complete chaos throughout the plane. As various peop...

Robert Rylands' Last Journey
1996
as Cromer
Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses th...

Honey Sweet Love
1996
as Pearson
A British commander falls in love with a local Sicilian girl during World War II.

First Knight
1995
as Malagant
The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancel...

Hellfire
1995
as Marius Carnot
Gabriella finds an unfinished symphony that was written by her late uncle Octave Barron who found inspiration through murder. Thrilled by it's possibi...

Temptress
1995
as Dr. Samudaya
Karin brings a statue home from her travels to Asia and it soon begins to have a strange effect on her. She has an insatiable sexual appetite and deve...

The House that Mary Bought
1995
When a brilliant artist and her husband become subject to a series of bizarre occurrences in their isolated house in Brittany they both suspect that t...

The Ascent
1994
as Major Farrell
The real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya an...

The Criminal Mind
1993
as Carlo Augustine
A Los Angeles district attorney must choose between family loyalty and his job when his long-lost brother turns out to be a powerful mob figure.

Deep Trouble
1993
as Campagna
Charles Madigan visits Alice, to tell her that her father died in an accident while the two professional treasure hunters were diving at the coast of ...

Cold Sweat
1993
as Mark Cahill
Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a...

The Diamond Fleece
1992
Jeweller Phillippe Golden purchases one of the largest diamonds ever from an auction. Diamond thief Rick Dunne is released from prison to consult in c...

Live Wire
1992
as Mikhail Rashid
Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within t...

Eye of the Widow
1991
as Nassiri
A new international terrorist group attack the castle of an Austrian prince during his party, but one of the guests, a contractor, deals with them. Th...

She Stood Alone
1991
as William Lloyd Garrison
Prudence Crandall establishes herself in Cantenbury, and starts a girls-school. When Eliza Harris, a black girl, wants to take lessons at this school,...

Nightlife
1989
as Vlad
At a museum of Mexico City arrives a perfectly conservated mumie. It is a vampire who has died years ago and who returns to life in search of his lost...

The Jeweller's Shop
1989
as Stephane
Burt Lancaster stars as the titular merchant in this classic adaptation of Pope John Paul II's best-selling play "The Jeweller's Shop," an inspiring d...

Paperhouse
1988
as Dad
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in he...

Steal the Sky
1988
as Munir Redfa
An Israeli agent entices an Iraqi jet pilot to defect with his MIG fighter.

The Unholy
1988
as Father Michael
A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.
The Grand Knockout Tournament
1987
as Self
The Grand Knockout Tournament (colloquially also known as It's a Royal Knockout) was a one-off charity event which was shown on British television on ...

Strong Medicine
1986
as Martin Taylor
TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious ...

The Assisi Underground
1985
as Padre Rufino
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.

Attention
1985
as Alberto
On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and ...

Coming Out of the Ice
1982
as Gen. Tuchachevsky
A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

Life After Death
1982
as Simon
"We were so close, we loved each other, we made a whole together. I feel cut in half." Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband.

Chariots of Fire
1981
as Harold Abrahams
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a d...
The Winkler
1979
as Terry Jones
Set in the near future, civil servants are busy winkling out and repatriating all first generation immigrants. The attempt drowns in paper until the f...

A Bridge Too Far
1977
as Trooper Binns
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in H...
The Reprieve
1972
as Bolshevik
Set on a remote Russian steppe during the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921, a captured White Guard Officer is about to be hanged by the Bolsheviks. Will...

Liberty
N/A
as Dr. Boucher
Born with valuable and powerful abilities, a young woman escapes a confidential, brutal experiment. Federal agents will stop at nothing to capture her...