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Ronny Cox

Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox
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)
28 Videos for Ronny Cox
Imagine That (2009) Past Midnight (1992) Steele Justice (1987)
Angel in the Family (2004) Loose Cannons (1990) Target: Favorite Son (1987)
Crazy as Hell (2002) Martians Go Home! (1990) Vision Quest (1985)
American Outlaws (2001) Total Recall (1990) The Beast Within (1982)
Forces of Nature (1999) One Man Force (1989) Two of a Kind (1982)
From the Earth to the Moon (1998) The Comeback (1989) Captain America (1979)
Murder at 1600 (1997) In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders (1988) Gray Lady Down (1977)
Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault (1996) Baby Girl Scott (1987) The Car (1977)
Hard Evidence (1995) Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) Bound for Glory (1976)
Captain America (1992)
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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.