Actor Alan Cox
Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is a British actor.
He portrayed a teenage Dr. Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985.
Alan Cox | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alan Douglas Cox 6 August 1970 Westminster, London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Parents |
|
Life and career
Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his second wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and two half brothers Orson Jonathan Cox and Torin Kamran Cox.
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
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | A Divorce | Jason | TV film |
| 1981 | If You Go Down in the Woods Today | Cub Scout | |
| 1982 | A Voyage Round My Father | Son as a Boy | TV film |
| East Lynne | William Carlyle | TV film | |
| 1984 | Man of Letters | Kenton | TV film |
| 1985 | Young Sherlock Holmes | John Watson | |
| 1995 | An Awfully Big Adventure | Geoffrey | |
| 1997 | Mrs Dalloway | Young Peter | |
| 1999 | The Auteur Theory | George Sand | |
| 2000 | Cor, Blimey! | Orsino | TV film |
| Weight | Henry Salmon | ||
| 2002 | Die Wasserfälle von Slunj | Donald Clayton | TV film |
| The Dinosaur Hunters | Richard Owen | TV film | |
| 2003 | Justice | Palm Sunday | |
| 2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Obsequious Man | |
| Not Only But Always | Alan Bennett | TV film | |
| 2006 | Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes | Cuthbert | TV film |
| Housewife, 49 | Dennis | TV film | |
| 2008 | August | Barton | |
| 2009 | Margaret | Gordon Reece | TV film |
| 2010 | The Nutcracker in 3D | Gielgud | Voice role |
| 2011 | Act Naturally | Cory Beck | |
| The Speed of Thought | Alexei | ||
| 2012 | The Dictator | BP Executive | |
| 2018 | Staging the Knack and How to Get It | Interviewer | Short film |
| Say My Name | Father Donald Davies | ||
| 2019 | Act Super Naturally | Cory Beck |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | The Devil's Crown | Young Henry | Episode: "The Earth Is Not Enough" |
| 1979 | Penmarric | Young Jan-Yves | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 7" |
| 1980 | Shoestring | John | Episode: "The Dangerous Game" |
| 1983 | Jane Eyre | John Reed | Episode: "Gateshead" |
| 1990 | Casualty | Joshua | Episode: "Results" |
| 1991 | The Bill | Steve Doyle | Episode: "Stress Rules" |
| 1992 | Screen One | Seth Bade | Episode: "Adam Bede" |
| Spatz | Graham | Episode: "Poetry & Music" | |
| London's Burning | Richard Sidwell | Episode: "Series 5, Episode 3" | |
| The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Dimitri | Episode: "Petrograd, July 1917" | |
| 1994 | The Bill | Connor | Episode: "Creating a Market" |
| 1995 | Crown Prosecutor | David Ellery | Episode: "Series 1, Episode 8" |
| 1996 | Ellington | Tadeusz Zbinkiewicz | Episode: "No Holds Barred" |
| The Thin Blue Line | Bob Tough | Episode: "Fly on the Wall" | |
| 1997 | The Odyssey | Elpenor | Mini-series |
| 2004 | Midsomer Murders | Stephen Bannerman | Episode: "The Maid in Splendour" |
| 2007 | The Wild West | Mark Kellogg | Episode: "Custer's Last Strand" |
| 2008 | M.I. High | David DeHaverland | Episode: "It's a Kind of Magic" |
| John Adams | William Maclay | Episode: "Unite or Die" | |
| 2009 | The Bill | Phil Reaney | Episode: "Fall Out" |
| 2013 | Lucan | Ian Maxwell-Scott | Mini-series |
| 2014 | The Good Wife | Douglas | Episode: "Goliath and David" |
| 2015 | The Sonnet Project | Episode: "Sonnet #30" | |
| 2021 | New Amsterdam | Lyle | Episode: "More Joy" |
Bibliography
- Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 381.
References
External links
This article uses material from the Wikipedia English article Alan Cox (actor), which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.