Alan Cox

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Alan Cox (born 6 August 1970) is an English actor.

Life and career

He was born in London, England, 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).

Appearances

Films

• The Speed of Thought (2008)
• August (2008)
• Ladies in Lavender (2004)
• Justice (2003)
• 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)

External links

• Alan Cox at the Internet Movie Database