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Cox made a notable appearance on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' as Captain [[Edward Jellico]] in the two-part episode "[[Chain of Command (TNG episode)|Chain of Command]]". Most recently he played [[List of Desperate Housewives characters#Bree's family|Henry Mason]], the father of [[Bree Hodge]] (played by [[Marcia Cross]]) on ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''.
Cox made a notable appearance on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' as Captain [[Edward Jellico]] in the two-part episode "[[Chain of Command (TNG episode)|Chain of Command]]". Most recently he played [[List of Desperate Housewives characters#Bree's family|Henry Mason]], the father of [[Bree Hodge]] (played by [[Marcia Cross]]) on ''[[Desperate Housewives]]''.


He also had a roll in The Starter Wife. He played Pappy McCallister, the husband of Molly Kagan's best friend Joan.
==Filmography==
==Filmography==
* ''[[Beverly Hills Cop IV]]'' (2010)
* ''[[Beverly Hills Cop IV]]'' (2010)

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Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox, 2006
Born
Daniel Ronald Cox
Websitehttp://www.Ronnycox.com

Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American character actor, singer/songwriter, and guitarist.

Biography

Personal life

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.[1][2][3] He grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox tours regularly with a band, performing at theatres and folk music festivals. On September 10 1960, he married Mary Cox. She died in 2006; they had two children. He graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in theater and speech correction.

Career

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. Cox has also appeared as Lieutenant/Captain/Chief of Police Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, Richard "Dick" Jones in RoboCop, Mars Administrator Vilos Cohaagen in Total Recall, and Senator/Vice-President Robert Kinsey in Stargate SG-1. Cox also portrayed John Ramsey in the 2000 TV movie Perfect Murder, Perfect Town.

From 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 television production of Our Town.

One of his most memorable roles was that of Dr. John Gideon during the final season of the television medical drama St. Elsewhere. Cox's character was famously mooned by Dr. Donald Westphall (Ed Flanders) at the end of the third episode of season six.

Cox made a notable appearance on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Captain Edward Jellico in the two-part episode "Chain of Command". Most recently he played Henry Mason, the father of Bree Hodge (played by Marcia Cross) on Desperate Housewives.

He also had a roll in The Starter Wife. He played Pappy McCallister, the husband of Molly Kagan's best friend Joan.

Filmography

Discography

  1. Acoustic Eclectricity
  2. Cowboy Savant
  3. Ronny Cox Live
  4. Ronny Cox: Songs, Stories... and Out & Out Lies (DVD)
  5. Ronny Cox At The Sebastiani Theater
  6. "How I love them old songs..." - Ronny Cox sings Mickey Newbury

References

  1. ^ http://www.artesianews.com/lclnews/2007arc/07022504B.pdf
  2. ^ Ronny Cox Biography (1938-)
  3. ^ Ronny Cox Biography - Yahoo! Movies
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