Alan Cox (actor)
Alan Cox | |
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Cox performing in the play Betrayal in 2012 | |
Born |
London, England | 6 August 1970
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1976–present |
Alan Cox (born 6 August 1970) is an English actor.
Life and career
Cox was born in London, and is the son of Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his first wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and a half brother Torin Kamran Charles.
Cox portrayed the young John Mortimer the 1982 TV adaptation of his play A Voyage Round My Father, starring opposite Laurence Olivier. He is probably most widely known for his role in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson. Other films include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Mrs. Dalloway (1997), and The Auteur Theory (1999). In 2011, Cox also co-starred as a nudist named Cory Beck in the independent comedy Act Naturally.
Filmography
Films
- Act Naturally (2011)
- The Speed of Thought (2008)
- August (2008)
- Ladies in Lavender (2004)
- Justice (2003)
- John O'Hagen (2001)
- Weight (2000)
- The Auteur Theory (1999)
- Mrs Dalloway (1997)
- An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
- Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
- If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981)
Television series
- John Adams (2008)
- M.I.High (2008)
- Midsomer Murders (2004)
- The Thin Blue Line (1996)
- Ellington (1996)
- Crown Prosecutor (1995)
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993)
- The Bill (1991)
- Casualty (1990)
- Jane Eyre (1983)
- Shoestring (1980)
- The Devil's Crown (1978)
Television films
- Margaret (2009)
- Housewife 49 (2006)
- Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes (2006)
- Not Only But Always (2004)
- Wasserfälle von Slunj, Die (2002)
- Cor, Blimey! (2000)
- The Odyssey (1997)
- Adam Bede (1991)
- East Lynne (1982)
- A Voyage Round My Father (1982)
- A Divorce (1976)
Bibliography
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 381.
External links
- Alan Cox at the Internet Movie Database