Alan Cox (actor)

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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)
• (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 (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.

External links[]

• Alan Cox at IMDb