Ronny Cox
- Birthday
- Jul 23, 1938
Bio: 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… More Bio: 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, Rovi
Ronny Cox Pictures
Ronny Cox Videos
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Vision Quest
Baby Girl Scott
Target: Favorite Son
Steele Justice
Filmography
-
Imagine That (2009)
- Tom Stevens
- 39%
-
L.A. Riot Spectacular (2005)
- Chief Gates
- 29%
-
Angel in the Family (2004)
- Buddy Bryce, Director
-
Pride (2003)
- Actor
-
Crazy As Hell (2002)
- Dr. Delazo
- 50%
- See all 69 films
In Theaters This Week
Born Today
-
Misaki Ito35 years old -
Richard Harrison77 years old -
Levon Helm72 years old
