Ronny Cox

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Gender: Male
Born: 23rd July 1938 (currently 73 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Cop Rock, St. Elsewhere, Apple's Way, The Agency, Sweet Justice, Spencer, Second Chances, Invasion America
Movies: Bound for Glory, Deliverance, RoboCop, Taps, Total Recall, Gray Lady Down, Crazy as Hell, Captain America, A Case of Rape, The Car, Beverly Hills Cop II, Vision Quest, Murder at 1600, The Beast Within, Harper Valley PTA, Scissors, The Onion Field, Beverly Hills Cop, The L.A. Riot Spectacular, The Happiness Cage, In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders, Angel in the Family, The Boys of Sunset Ridge, Secret of Giving, American Outlaws, Fallen Angel, Imagine That, Hollywood Vice Squad, Forces of Nature, Point of Origin, Some Kind of Hero, Loose Cannons, Rebound: The Legend of Earl \"The Goat\" Manigault, Pride, The Courage of Kavik the Wolf Dog, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride, Steele Justice, Martians Go Home, Truth Be Told, When We Were Young, Frog and Wombat

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. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in Theater and Speech Correction. On September 10, 1960, he married Mary Cox. They had two children; she died in 2006. Cox tours regularly with a musical band, performing at theatres and folk music festivals.

As an actor, he made his debut in the acclaimed 1972 film Deliverance, in a scene of which he plays the instrumental "Dueling Banjos" on his guitar with a banjo-playing mountain boy, played by child actor Billy Redden. Twelve years later, in the low-budget film Courage, Cox once again played a member of a small group of men who are, this time, lost in the Nevada desert and being chased by bloodthirsty locals.

In the period 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

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