Alan Cox (actor)

Alan Cox
Alan Cox
Born	Alan Douglas Cox; 6 August 1970; Westminster, London, England
Nationality	British
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1976–present
Parent(s)	Brian Cox (father); Caroline Burt (mother)

Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is an English actor. He is perhaps most widely known for portraying a teenage Dr. Watson in Barry Levinson's production Young Sherlock Holmes (1985).

Life and career

Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish 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 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.

Cox is unmarried and has no children.

Filmography

Films

If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Mrs Dalloway (1997)
The Auteur Theory (1999)
Weight (2000)
John O'Hagen (2001)
Justice (2003)
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
August (2008)
The Speed of Thought (2008)
Act Naturally (2011)

Television series

The Devil's Crown (1978)
Shoestring (1980)
Jane Eyre (1983)
Casualty (1990)
The Bill (1991)
Londons Burning Richard Sidwell(1992)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993)
Crown Prosecutor (1995)
Ellington (1996)
The Thin Blue Line (1996)
Midsomer Murders (2004)
M.I. High (2008)
John Adams (2008)

Television films

A Divorce (1976)
A Voyage Round My Father (1982)
East Lynne (1982)
Adam Bede (1991)
The Odyssey (1997)
Cor, Blimey! (2000)
Wasserfälle von Slunj, Die (2002)
Not Only But Always (2004)
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes (2006)
Housewife 49 (2006)
Margaret (2009)
Lucan (2013)

Bibliography

Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 381.

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External links

Alan Cox on IMDb

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