Born Russell Beurling Titus on Christmas Day 1913 in Saint
John New Brunswick, Canada. Russell married Evangelina Faustina Bardeney and
then Doris Mildred Slater in 1944. Doris was Canada’s first female comic book
artist. The couple had two children Robin Eugene and Patricia Maria “Patti”
Titus. The marriage ended in 1950 when Russell moved to England to pursue a
singing and acting career under the name of Larry Cross. There he married model
and actress Italia Cross. Larry appeared in sixty films and TV shows between
1954 and 1976. He’s best remembered for his appearances in “Carry on Cowboy”,
his only Euro-western, “A Countess from Hong Kong” (1967), “The Kremlin Letter”
(1970) and “The Wind and the Lion” in 1975. He appeared in the first episode
(as station manager) of a 1972 British production of Anne of Green Gables (set
in the late 19th century - 1880-1890's Canada). Based on the book Anne of
Green Gables, the beloved 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud
Montgomery, which is similar to Little House on the Prairie. Both were
written for a young girl audience. It would have been set following
Confederation (1867), and at least would have had a rustic feel, rather than a
frontier atmosphere and warrants a mention.
Larry Cross died on June 29, 1976 in London at the age of 62.
CROSS, Larry (aka Russ Titus) (Russell Titus)
[12/25/1913, Saint John New Brunswick, Canada – 6/29/1976, London, England,
U.K.] – singer, film, TV actor, married to Evangelina Faustina Bardeney
(1936-19??) father of Kenneth Titus [1938-1992], married to comic book artist Doris
Mildred Slater [1917-1964] (1944-1950) father of Robin Eugene Titus, Patricia Marie
Titus [1949- ], married to actress Italia
Cross.
Carry on Cowboy – 1965 (Perkins)
My father Russell Beurling Titus aka Larry Cross was married to Evangeline before he married my mother Doris Slater Titus. He came to England in 1950 as a singer, later in the 50s became an actor and was living as man and wife with my stepmother, Italia Cross, actress and model, since the 1950s in Harrow. I came to live with them in august 1967 at Parkfield Avenue, Harrow when I was 17 as my mother Doris Titus had died in a car accident in 1964.
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