Beverley Cross
, 1931 - 1998
Beverley Cross was a British screenwriter and playwright. Cross was born in London and began writing children's plays in the 1950s, finding success immediately with his first play One More River which premiered in 1958. Cross wrote and directed successful plays throughout the 1960s, as well as writing opera librettos for composers Nicholas Maw and Richard Rodney Bennett. He was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1965 for Half a Sixpence which opened in 1963 and was adapted from a H.G. Wells novel. Cross is well known for his screenplays, most of which are historical adventure films, including Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Long Ships (1964), Genghis Khan (1965), and Clash of the Titans (1981). He died in 1998, shortly before his 67th birthday.
Sources:
Wikipedia (accessed: September 3, 2020),
IMDb (accessed: September 3, 2020).
Bio prepared by Aimee Hinds, University of Roehampton, hindsa@roehampton.ac.uk
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