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Ronny Cox
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American actor and musician
OverviewAI-generated
Ronny Cox is an American actor and guitarist born in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, in 1938. He resides in Los Angeles and speaks English. His professional career began in 1972. Cox has worked in film and television, with acting credited as his primary department in film databases.
As a musician, he plays the guitar and is associated with the country rock genre. He is listed as an author with two works, including "Dueling Banjos" and "Waiting For The Mothership." These titles appear in library records under his name.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Dueling Banjos
- Waiting For The Mothership
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA
Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American actor, singer and songwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ronny Cox, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop — Self2023
- In Search of Tomorrow — Self - Interviewee2022
- Being the Ricardos — Older Bob Carroll2021
- Star Trek: Prodigy — Admiral Jellico (voice)2021
- The Car: Road to Revenge — Watts2019
- That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars — Self2019
- The Movies That Made Us — Self (archive footage)2019
- Hillbilly — Self2018
- Pure Country: Pure Heart — CJ Simms2017
- Beyond the Reach — Sheriff Robb2014
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1938
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 613
- Total plays
- 5,689
Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American character actor, singer/songwriter, and guitarist. As an actor, he is probably best 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ronny+Cox">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Key facts
- Born
- Daniel Ronald Cox , ( 1938-07-23 ) July 23, 1938 (age 87) , Cloudcroft, New Mexico , U.S.
- Alma mater
- Eastern New Mexico University
- Occupations
- Actor singer songwriter storyteller
- Years active
- 1972–present
- Spouse
- Mary Cox ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 ; died 2006 )
- Website
- ronnycox .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ronny
- Family name
- Cox
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cloudcroft
- Occupation
- banjoist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- country rock
- Instrument
- guitar
- Official website
- www.ronnycox.com
- Image
- Ronny Cox 2019.jpg
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Ronny Cox
- date of birth
- 1938-07-23
- start of work period
- 1972-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Ronny Cox
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Daniel Ronald Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American actor and musician. He has appeared in numerous films and television series since his acting debut in Deliverance (1972). He is best known for his roles in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), RoboCop (1987), and Total Recall (1990). He is also active as a musician, performing over 100 times per year at festivals and theaters as of 2012.
Family life
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