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Ronny Cox

 
Actor: Ronny Cox
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  • Born: Jul 23, 1938 in Cloudcroft, New Mexico
  • Occupation: Actor, Writer
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Action
  • Career Highlights: Deliverance, Robocop, The Onion Field
  • First Major Screen Credit: Deliverance (1972)

Biography

An alumnus of Eastern New Mexico University, American actor Ronny Cox received one the best early film showcases an actor could ask for. In 1972, he was cast as one of the four unfortunate rafters in Deliverance; it was Cox who engaged in the celebrated "dueling banjos" sequence with enigmatic albino boy Hoyt J. Pollard. Two years later, Cox found himself in Apple's Way, a homey TV dramatic weekly described as a "modern Waltons". Most of his subsequent roles were in this benign, All-American vein--and then Cox shocked his followers by portraying Jerry Rubin in the 1975 PBS TV drama The Trial of the Chicago Seven. During this telecast, Cox became one of the first (if not the first) actors to mouth a now-familiar expletive of disgust on American television. As his physique thickened and his hairline thinned in the 1980s, Cox was much in demand in films as a corporate villain, notably in Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1984) and Total Recall (1990). The flip side of this hard-nosed screen image was his portrayal of the apoplectic but scrupulously honest police chief in Eddie Murphy's Beverly Hills Cop films. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Ronny Cox

Ronny Cox, 2006
Born Daniel Ronald Cox
July 23, 1938 (1938-07-23) (age 71)
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation Actor, singer, songwriter, guitarist
Years active 1972–present
Spouse(s) Mary Cox (1960-2006; her death) 2 children
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Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American character actor, singer/songwriter, and guitarist.

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Biography

Personal life

Cox, the third of five children, was born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the son of Lounette (née Rucker) and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy.[1][2][3] He grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox tours regularly with a band, performing at theatres and folk music festivals. On September 10, 1960, he married Mary Cox. She died in 2006; they had two children. He graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in theater and speech correction.

Career

As an actor, he is probably best known for his debut performance as Drew Ballinger in the acclaimed 1972 film Deliverance in which he plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a mentally retarded banjo-playing mountain boy named Lonnie, played by child actor Billy Redden. Cox has also appeared as Lieutenant/Captain/Chief of Police Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, Richard "Dick" Jones in RoboCop, Mars Administrator Vilos Cohaagen in Total Recall, and Senator/Vice-President Robert Kinsey in Stargate SG-1. Cox also portrayed John Ramsey in the 2000 TV movie Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.

From 1974-1975, Cox starred in the short-lived CBS family-oriented dramatic series entitled Apple's Way created by Earl Hamner, who created The Waltons. He appeared as "Mr. Webb" in a television production of Our Town.

One of his most memorable roles was that of Dr. John Gideon during the final season of the television medical drama St. Elsewhere. Cox's character was famously mooned by Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) at the end of the third episode of season six.

Cox made a notable appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation as the tyrannical Captain Edward Jellico in the two-part episode "Chain of Command". Most recently he played Henry Mason, the father of Bree Hodge (played by Marcia Cross) on Desperate Housewives.

He also had a role in The Starter Wife. He played Pappy McCallister, the husband of Molly Kagan's best friend Joan.

Filmography

Discography

  1. Acoustic Eclectricity
  2. Cowboy Savant
  3. Ronny Cox Live
  4. Ronny Cox: Songs, Stories... and Out & Out Lies (DVD)
  5. Ronny Cox At The Sebastiani Theater
  6. "How I love them old songs..." - Ronny Cox sings Mickey Newbury
  7. "Songs... with Repercussions" 2008 (CD)

Further reading

  • Voisin, Scott, "Character Kings: Hollywood's Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting." BearManor Media, 2009. ISBN 9-781593-933425.

References

  1. ^ http://www.artesianews.com/lclnews/2007arc/07022504B.pdf
  2. ^ Ronny Cox Biography (1938-)
  3. ^ Ronny Cox Biography - Yahoo! Movies

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