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Ronny Cox
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Actor Born: July 23, 1938 in Cloudcroft, NM 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... Full Biography
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