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BIRTHDAY

July 23, 1938

Cloudcroft, NM

RECENT CREDITS

Imagine That (FILM) Jun. 12, 2009

Tell Me You Love Me (TV) Oct. 21, 2007

The L.A. Riot Spectacular (FILM) Aug. 11, 2006

Commander in Chief (TV) Apr. 20, 2006

Desperate Housewives (TV) Apr. 16, 2006

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BIOGRAPHY

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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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CHANNEL SURFER: 'Kingdom' Comes (And Stays)

Feb. 27, 2000

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- It's the last gasp for the February sweeps (running through Wednesday), and the mini-series "events" are coming fast and furious. NBC leads the way this week with its ambitious test of our collective attention span, "The 10th Kingdom" (9-11 p.m. EST/PST, Sunday; 8-11 p.m. Monday; 8-11 p.m. Wednesday; 9-11 p.m. March 5; 8-11 p.m. March 6 .....

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