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Ronny Cox
Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American character actor, singer/songwriter, and guitarist.
Cox, the third of five children, was born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, the son of Lounette (née Rucker) and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy.[1][2][3] He grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox tours regularly with a band, performing at theatres and folk music festivals. On September 10, 1960, he married Mary Cox. She died in 2006; they had two children. He graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in theater and speech correction.
As an actor, known for his debut performance as Drew Ballinger in the acclaimed 1972 film Deliverance in which he plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a mentally retarded banjo-playing mountain boy named Lonnie, played by child actor Billy Redden. Cox has also appeared as Lieutenant/Captain/Chief of Police Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, Richard "Dick" Jones in RoboCop, Mars Administrator Vilos Cohaagen in Total Recall, and Senator/Vice-President Robert Kinsey in Stargate SG-1. In 1997, Cox portrayed the fictional President of the United States Jack Neil in the movie Murder at 1600. Cox also portrayed John Ramsey in the 2000 TV movie Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.
From 1974-1975, Cox starred in the short-lived CBS family-oriented dramatic series entitled Apple's Way created by Earl Hamner, who created The Waltons. He appeared as "Mr. Webb" in a television production of Our Town.
One of his roles was that of Dr. John Gideon during the final season of the television medical drama St. Elsewhere. Cox's character was famously mooned by Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) at the end of the third episode of season six.
Cox made a notable appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation as the efficient but impersonable Captain Edward Jellico in the two-part episode "Chain of Command". He has also played Henry Mason, the father of Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) on Desperate Housewives.
He also had a role in The Starter Wife. He played Pappy McCallister, the husband of Molly Kagan's best friend Joan.
Cox has also done some occasional animation work, lending his voice to the Tyrusian deserter Doc in Invasion America, and Senator McMillan in Todd McFarlane's Spawn.
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Imagine That
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Yara Shahidi
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
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Before he found himself standing in front of his friends' house yelling for his daughter's purple security blanket in the middle of the night, Evan Danielson was just your average financial wizard--focused, successful and driven. But, when his daughter introduced him to the princesses and their ..read more »
 
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from 4,334 members
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Crazy As Hell
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Eriq La Salle, Michael Beach, Ronny Cox
Director: Eriq La Salle
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Unconventional psychotherapist Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach) takes residence at Sedah State Mental Hospital where he will be filmed by documentarian Parker (John C. McGinley) for a film on his methods of non-medicinal approach to treatment. Dr. Adams' confidence is offset by the recent loss of his ..read more »
47%
from 328 members
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Point Of Origin
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ray Liotta, John Leguizamo, Colm Feore
Director: Newton Thomas Sigel
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Cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel (THE USUAL SUSPECTS, X-MEN) makes his solo directorial debut with POINT OF ORIGIN. Based on a true story, the film stars Ray Liotta as John Orr, an arson investigator searching for a serial offender in California. His task is complicated when he finds himself ..read more »
51%
from 177 members
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Forces Of Nature
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck, Maura Tierney
Director: Bronwen Hughes
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Ben Holmes, a soon-to-be-hitched batchelor, is unable to fly to Savannah for his wedding (due to a careless seagull and an approaching hurricane). He must share a rented care with Sara, a kooky character who clashes with him in every way. What's that saying: opposites attract
55%
from 8,072 members
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Deep Blue Sea - Blu-ray
(1999)
Starring: Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Renny Harlin
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In search of a cure for Alzheimer's Disease, a team of scientists experiment with the brains of sharks, making them smarter and faster. When a corporate executive (Jackson) comes to tour the facility the sharks start an uprising that threatens not only the project but the lives of the team. ..read more »
64%
from 541 members
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Murder at 1600
(1997)
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Alan Alda, Daniel Benzali
Director: Dwight Little
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A mysterious murder report summons a hardened Washington D.C. homicide detective to the shadowy halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue-and draws him into a web of conspiracy, cover-ups, and corruption.
63%
from 4,252 members
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Rebound - The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' ...
(1996)
Starring: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach
Director: Eriq La Salle
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A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him
57%
from 7 members
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Total Recall - HD
(1990)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfectly cast as Quaid, a 2084 construction worker haunted by dreams of Mars in this crowd-pleasing science fiction spectacle. Against the wishes of his sexy blonde wife (Sharon Stone), Quaid goes to Rekall, a company that implants artificial memories, so he can remember ..read more »
74%
from 503 members
Not currently released
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Total Recall
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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In Paul Verhoeven's wild sci-fi action movie Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a 21st-century construction worker who discovers that his entire memory of the past derives from a memory chip implanted in his brain. Schwarzenegger learns that he's actually a secret agent who had become a ..read more »
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from 30,210 members
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One Man Force
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: John Matshikiza, Ronny Cox, Sam Jones
Director: Dale Trevillion
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Rogue cop Swan and his partner are caught in a trap whilst on the trail of a drug baron and Swan's partner is killed. Swan is kicked out of the Police Force for an attempted revenge attack on the killers. He decides to become a Private Detective...
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from 51 members
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Robocop Trilogy
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox
Director: Paul Verhoeven, Irvin Kershner, Fred Dekker
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This collection features ROBOCOP and its two sequels. In Paul Verhoeven's original urban sci-fi Western, Peter Weller stars as Murphy, a good Detroit cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine--RoboCop. His former partner (Nancy Allen) tries ..read more »
65%
from 9,861 members
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Robocop - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine. An ambitious executive at OCP, the corporation running the futuristic city of Detroit, fuses Murphy's torso with bulletproof steel ..read more »
76%
from 2,831 members
Not currently released
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Beverly Hills Cop 2
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
Director: Tony Scott
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In BEVERLY HILLS COP II, Eddie Murphy is back as Axel Foley, a resourceful Detroit detective who doesn't exactly play by the rules. When his friend Andrew Bogomil (Ronny Cox) is wounded in an event related to mysterious "alphabet crimes," Foley hightails it to California and reunites up with ..read more »
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from 12,543 members
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Vision Quest
(1985)
Starring: Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling
Director: Harold Becker
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Madonna's first appearance in a major motion picture has her playing the part of a lead singer in a local band performing her hit songs Crazy For You and Gambler. The story is about high school wrestler Louden Swain (Matthew Modine) falling in love with a drifter, Carla (Linda Fiorentino).
46%
from 32 members
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Beverly Hills Cop - Blu-ray
(1984)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, James Russo, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: Martin Brest
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Eddie Murphy rose to stardom as Axel Foley, a streetwise and brash young Detroit cop in this comic blockbuster that combined frenetic action, hysterical rough-edged comedy, and a chart-topping rock & roll soundtrack. When his best friend is murdered, Axel heads off to Beverly Hills in an effort to ..read more »
79%
from 297 members
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Beverly Hills Cop
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, James Russo, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: Martin Brest
Certificate:
Eddie Murphy rose to stardom as Axel Foley, a streetwise and brash young Detroit cop in this comic blockbuster that combined frenetic action, hysterical rough-edged comedy, and a chart-topping rock & roll soundtrack. When his best friend is murdered, Axel heads off to Beverly Hills in an effort to ..read more »
71%
from 20,241 members
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Bound For Glory
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon
Director: Hal Ashby
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Hal Ashby's film of Woody Guthrie's autobiography, BOUND FOR GLORY, recounts the protest singer's life starting when he's a young man with a wife and two children, trying to find work as a sign painter in the Dust Bowl-ravaged Texas of the 1930s. He leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), with her ..read more »
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from 441 members
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The Mind Snatchers
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Walken, Ronny Cox, Claus Nissen
Director: Bernard Girard
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Private James Reece is chosen for a pioneering brain operation by the US Army designed to remove aggressive behaviour. But things don't go exactly to plan... Based on the play 'The Happiness Cage' by Dennis Reardon.
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from 75 members
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Deliverance
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
Director: John Boorman
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Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (..read more »
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from 15,521 members
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