Beverley cross biography for kids
Inside Maggie Smith's romance with Beverley Cross: Late actress said she never got over her husband's death - after couple married 23 years following their first meeting
Maggie Smith has passed away aged 89 years old today - 26 years after the death of her husband Beverley Cross, who she continued to grieve and speak fondly about years on.
The late actress first met the playwright when she was 18, saying that he was 'lovely' and, at 21, 'a bit older'.
He had asked her to marry him and wait while his divorce went through - but in 1967, she had married actor Robert Stephens, with whom Maggie had two sons.
It was 23 years after their first meeting that the Harry Potter star and Beverley finally tied the knot.
They were happy together until 1998, when the screenwriter passed away aged 66.
Maggie Smith has passed away aged 89 years old today - 26 years after the death of her husband Beverley Cross, who she continued to grieve and speak fondly about
Speaking to the Guardian in 2004, Maggie - who had dreamt of him the night before - said: 'I still miss him so much it's ridiculous. People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
'Even in my dream I kept saying to him, "You are dead. You can't be here."'
Maggie told the outlet that her and Beverley's first meeting took place on the steps of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
At the time, she was playing Viola in Twelfth Night at the Oxford Playhouse.
The actress had also joked that it was 'entirely Bev's fault' that she ended up meeting her first husband, Robert, because he had 'made her go to the National Theatre when she had already said no'.
Maggie and Robert wed in 1967, and within two years had two sons - Christopher, 57, and Toby, 55.
According to the actress, Laurence Olivier had warned her against a romance with the actor - who had already been married and had a child - but she found him a 'safe' choice.
Maggie admitted she didn't notice how bad her first husband's dr Beverley is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located 27 miles (43 km) south-east of York and 6 miles (9.7 km) north-west of Hull. At the 2021 census the built-up area of the town had a population of 30,930, and the smaller civil parish had a population of 18,014. It is the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire. The town was founded in the seventh century by John of Beverley, who established a church in the area. It was originally named Inderawuda, and was part of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria. The town came under Viking control in the 850s, then became part of the Kingdom of England. John of Beverley was made a saint in 1037, and the town was a place of pilgrimage for the remainder of the Middle Ages. It continued to grow under the Normans, when its trading industry was first established, and eventually became a significant wool-trading town and the tenth-largest settlement in England. After the Reformation, the stature of Beverley was much reduced. The town contains several landmarks, including Beverley Minster, Westwood common, North Bar gatehouse, St Mary's Church, and Beverley Racecourse. It inspired the naming of the city of Beverly, Massachusetts, which in turn was the indirect source of the name for Beverly Hills, California, which was named after its Beverly Farms neighbourhood. See also: History of Yorkshire The origins of Beverley can be traced back to the time of the Anglian kingdom of Northumbria in the 7th century. The first structure built in the area, which at the time was known as Inderawuda (meaning "in the wood of the men of Deira"), was a Christian church dedicated to St John the Evangelist. This was founded by the Bishop of York who later became known as John of Beverley, who was believed to have performed miracles during his lifetime, and was later venerated as a saint. Around the 850s, the now developed mon Alan Beverley Cross 13 April 1931 20 March 1998 Alan Beverley Cross (13 April 1931 - 20 March 1998) was a British stage and screenwriter born in London, England. He had a hand in writing several of Ray Harryhausen's most recognisable pictures, including his biggest box office success, Clash of the Titans (1981) . Beginning his career writing for the stage, Cross's first play One More River, a thriller set aboard a small tramp freighter in West Africa , established his name when it premiered at the New Shakespeare Theatre, Liverpool in 1958. At its launch, the play was directed by Sam Wanamaker who would later go on to direct the 1977 mythological fantasy film Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger. Cross's second play Strip the Willow, a comedy about a group of survivors in the wake of a nuclear war , would prove to be a launching platform for the career of award-winning actress Dame Maggie Smith, who would later marry Cross in 1975 , and make a memorable appearance as the antagonistic Greek goddess Thetis in another of Harryhausen's mythological fantasies, Clash of the Titans, in 1981 . As with Ray Harryhausen and Charles H. Schneer, Cross appears to have retired from professional filmmaking when a proposed sequel to Clash of the Titans, Force of the Trojans, which he also screenwrote, was turned down by all of the studios approached . British screenwriter (1931–1998) Alan Beverley Cross London, England London, England Elizabeth Clunies-Ross Gayden Collins Maggie Smith Alan Beverley Cross (13 April 1931 – 20 March 1998) was an English playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Born in London into a theatrical family, and educated at the Nautical College Pangbourne, Cross started off by writing children's plays in the 1950s. He achieved instant success with his first play, One More River, which dealt with a mutiny in which a crew puts its first officer on trial for manslaughter. The play premiered in 1958 at the New Shakespeare Theatre Liverpool, starring Robert Shaw, directed by Sam Wanamaker, and in 1959, still with Robert Shaw, directed by Guy Hamilton at the Duke of York's Theatre in London. Cross' second play, Strip the Willow, was to make a star out of his future wife, Maggie Smith, though the play never received a London production. In 1962, he translated Marc Camoletti's French farceBoeing Boeing, which had a lengthy run in the West End. In 1964, he directed the play in Sydney. Another success was Half a Sixpence, a musical comedy based on the H. G. Wells novel Kipps, for which he wrote the book, and for which he received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Author. This opened in 1963, and like his first play, ran in London for more than a year. He also wrote opera librettos for Richard Rodney Bennett (The Mines of Su Beverley facts for kids
History
Northumbrian and Viking period
Full Name
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Overview[]
Selected Works[]
Screenplays []
Trivia[]
References[]
Beverley Cross
Born (1931-04-13)13 April 1931 Died 20 March 1998(1998-03-20) (aged 66) Occupation(s) Screenwriter, playwright Years active 1960–1998 Spouses Relatives Chris Larkin (step-son)
Toby Stephens (step-son)Early life
Career