 He then joined the Prospect Theatre Company and played roles in "Pericles", "Twelfth Night", and "Royal Hunt of the Sun".Cross also joined the cast of the immensely popular musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" and played leading roles in Sir Peter Shaffer's "Equus", "Mind Your Head", and the musical "Irma La Douce" – all at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre.Cross's first big screen film appearance came in 1976 when he went on location to Deventer, Netherlands, to play Trooper Binns in Joseph E. Levine's World War II epic "A Bridge Too Far" which starred an international cast, including Dirk Bogarde, Sean Connery, Michael Caine and James Caan.