Alan Cox (actor)

Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his second wife, actress Caroline Burt.^[1] Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London.^[2] 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.^[3] He is probably most widely known for his role in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson.^[4] Other films include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Mrs. Dalloway (1997),^[5] and The Auteur Theory (1999).^[6] In 2011, Cox also co-starred as a nudist named Cory Beck in the independent comedy Act Naturally.

• Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 381.