Arthur (1981 film) won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Co-written by Christopher Cross, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager and Peter Allen, it was performed by Christopher Cross. Sir John Gielgud also won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for two other Academy Awards. Arthur Bach is a spoiled alcoholic from New York City, who likes to be driven in his chauffeured Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith limousine through Central Park. Arthur is heir to a portion of his family's vast fortune, which he is told will be his, only if he marries the upper class Susan Johnson, the daughter
Ted Ross moved to New York City in 1968. He starred in "The Wiz" and other Broadway productions, such as "Purlie", "Ain't Misbehavin", and "Raisin in the Sun". His first film was "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings", a baseball movie starring James Earl Jones and Richard Pryor. Films that followed included "Ragtime", "", "Police Academy", "Stealing Home", and "The Fisher King". One of the roles he is most fondly remembered for is that of Bitterman, Arthur Bach's long suffering chauffeur in the 1981 Dudley Moore hit, "Arthur". In 1990, Ross played Troy Maxson in a Cincinnati production of August