Beverley Cross

Emerging from a London theatrical family and trained at the Nautical College Pangbourne, he launched his writing career with children’s plays before achieving immediate acclaim with the 1958 drama One More River, staged in Liverpool and later in London with Robert Shaw. Although his second play Strip the Willow never reached a West End stage, it introduced future wife Maggie Smith to wider audienc… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources