Alex Cox
December 15, 1954 (71 years old) in Liverpool, England, UK
Alex Cox (born December 15, 1954, in Bebington, Merseyside) is an English film director, screenwriter and author. After studying at Oxford and at UCLA's film school, he directed Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, followed by Straight to Hell and Walker. He later made independent films including Highway Patrolman, Revengers Tragedy and Repo Chick and presented the BBC series Moviedrome. He co-wrote an early screenplay of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with Tod Davies, and their writing credit was retained on Terry Gilliam's film.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Visitor Jindřich Polák as Self
- 2025 · Dead Souls as Strindler
- 2025 · Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult as Self
- 2023 · Quantum Cowboys as Fr. John Kino
- 2021 · Mad God as Last Man
- 2021 · Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects as Self
- 2018 · An Unknown Enemy as Winston Scott
- 2017 · Fake News And How To Evade It as Himself (Host)
- 2017 · The Curse of the Dragon Sword as Blacksmith
- 2017 · Tombstone Rashomon as Hamlet performer
- 2016 · Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider as Self
- 2015 · Zero Tolerance as Himself
- 2014 · Doc of the Dead as Self
- 2010 · Searchers 2.0 as Entrepreneur
- 2009 · Repo Chick as Professor
- 2008 · Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects as Narrator
- 2008 · Dispatches from Nicaragua as
- 2008 · The Oxford Murders as Kalman
- 2006 · A Wonderful World as Maestro de Ceremonias
- 2006 · Repossessed as Himself
- 2005 · The Spaghetti West as Self
- 2005 · Rosario Tijeras as Donovan
- 2004 · I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me! as Doctor
- 2003 · Something to Do with Death as Self - Filmmaker
- 2003 · An Opera of Violence as Self - Filmmaker
- 2003 · The Wages of Sin as Self - Filmmaker
- 2003 · Dominator as Bishop (voice)
- 2002 · Revengers Tragedy as Duke's Driver
- 2001 · Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film as Self
- 2001 · Emmanuelle: A Hard Look as Himself - Host
- 2000 · Gimme Power as Cuervo
- 1999 · Herod's Law as Gringo
- 1999 · Kurosawa: The Last Emperor as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · Three Businessmen as Frank King
- 1998 · Godzilla, King of the Monsters as
- 1997 · Dance with the Devil as Doyle
- 1997 · David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme as Himself
- 1996 · The Winner as Gaston
- 1994 · Floundering as Photographer
- 1994 · The Queen of the Night as Klaus Eder
- 1994 · Dead Beat as English Teacher
- 1993 · Cuentos de Borges as Commander Borges
- 1992 · Death and the Compass as Commander Borges
- 1991 · Highway Patrolman as Gringo #2
- 1990 · Catchfire as D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)
- 1988 · Moviedrome as
- 1988 · Moviedrome as Self - Presenter
- 1987 · Straight to Hell as A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)
- 1987 · England's Glory as Interviewee
- 1986 · Sid and Nancy as Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)
- 1984 · Scarred as Porno Stud
- 1984 · Repo Man as Carwash Attendant
- 1981 · The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom as Voice characterizations (voice)
- 1980 · Sleep Is for Sissies as Roy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)