Actor Ben Cross has died.

[Ilsa]

He was only 72. He passed away in Vienna, per family, after a brief illness.

I enjoyed all of his performances, especially as Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire.

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. It may be somewhat obscure,

but he also did a great performance in the short reboot of Dark Shadows in 1991. He was a perfect Barnabas Collins.

[Ilsa]

2. I saw an episode of that.

Strange how the public wasn't ready for vampires, witches, or zombies back then.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. I don't know if that's it,

the original Dark Shadows was a flop until they brought in the ghosts and vampires. And there were other successful shows like Bewitched, and the multitude of scary movies.

I think the remake might have done better if they had quickly taken the storyline in a new direction instead of just re-doing the plot of the original.

[Greybnk48]

10. I remember the Dark Shadows Soap in the mid 60's

to early 71 and it was wildly popular. We all grew up with Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman!

[Kind of Blue]

12. Yes, indeed. It was so cool that there were movies in 1970, 1971, 1991, 2004, 2012

and sequel in development now for 2020. I forgot about the 2019 documentary Master of Dark Shadows.
Long Live Barnabas Collins in all of his incarnations.

[FoxNewsSucks]

15. I've been looking forward to watching that,

it's on one of my watch-lists, amazon or netflix.

I went to one of the conventions, it was pretty fun.

[Kind of Blue]

20. Me, too! Going to give it chance. Just checked and it's a CW reboot.

Lucky, you having gone to a convention. Wish there was an envy emoticon.

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/dark-shadows-the-cw-1203329640/#article-comments

[Ilsa]

23. 2012 movie Johnny Depp & Michelle Pfeiffer

was a hoot! The ball with Alice Cooper thing was so funny!
"This family could use more balls!"

[Kind of Blue]

25. It sure was a hoot. I was ready to dismiss it because it is comedy. What?!?

But, of course, Depp, Pfeiffer and when the originals: Jonathan Frid, Angelique, Quentin, and I think Caroline appeared at that ball, including Christopher Lee in the movie, I was just bowled over seeing them all again.
Delightful take with a wonderful homage.

[Ilsa]

29. OMG, I missed that! A blink of the eye,

a sneeze, an interruption, and I missed it!

I looked it up to see the pictures.

[Kind of Blue]

32. LOL. I didn't even notice either.

My sister caught her childhood crush, Quentin, and screamed his name.

I'm glad you got a little fun from that scene!

[Ilsa]

24. I didn't see the earliest episodes of the

original series. Barnabas was already there.

I liked the gothic feel of it, with old mansions near a high cliff overlooking the ocean and deep woods nearby. "It was a dark and stormy night" at least once a week!

[niyad]

8. I remember that. Was a Dark Shadows fan from the start.

[FoxNewsSucks]

16. Same here,

my mom picked us up at school, and she hauled ass to get home while the credits were playing so that we only missed the daily recap.

[niyad]

22. My fresher year in college, at 4pm each weekday, a group gathered in the lounge to watch

the original series.

[Raine]

18. Me too

I had to watch it everyday, never missed!

[Dr. Strange]

28. Ironically, that's the role of his that I remember the most.

I liked the revival, short-lived though it was. And the really young Joseph Gordon-Levitt added quite the flair with his version of David Collins.

[PatSeg]

4. How very sad

Besides Chariots of Fire, I loved him in The Far Pavilions and the TV series The Citadel.

[ananda]

7. Flame Trees of Thika

That's where I first saw him

Great actor

[PatSeg]

11. Oh yes

I'd forgotten that one! Excellent series.

[obamanut2012]

5. No! Manson in The Citadel and Abrahams in Chariots of Fire

What a good actor. How sad.

[question everything]

6. R.I.P

He also had a TV series about a surgeon. Don't remember the details. Always intense.

[iluvtennis]

9. Rest in Peace Ben Cross

I so enjoyed your role as Sarek in the Star Trek Movie.

[FoxNewsSucks]

17. Thanks!

I'd forgotten that. When I watched that for the first time I thought he looked familiar and had to pause tolook it up to see if it was the same actor.

He did make a great Sarek

[Kind of Blue]

26. Indeed! Ben Cross was so good, all of his roles seemed written just for him.

[ProfessorGAC]

31. I Forgot About That

Thanks for the reminder!

[Kind of Blue]

13. Loved him, too. Thank you, Ben Cross and rest in peace.

[marble falls]

14. I never thought I'd live to the day when we'd remark on a desceased as "only" 72 ...

we have really extended our years. I'm only 69, and I want to be older than "only" 100 when I shake off this mortal coil.

Ben Cross was a good actor and very good in Chariots.

[Raine]

19. Yes, I love that 72 is too young to go

at one time people would've said that was so old.

[Kind of Blue]

21. +1000!

Yeah, Ben Cross is to me the epitome of a "fine actor."

[lunatica]

27. I had a crush on him.

Yup. I sure did.

[Ilsa]

30. I had a little one, too.

Polite society was so genteel a century ago. Couldn't help but love him.