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Michael Graham Cox
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Michael Graham Cox
Born(1938-01-06)6 January 1938
London, England, UK
Died8 April 1995(1995-04-08) (aged 57)
London, England, UK
OccupationActor
Years active1960–1995
Height5ft 10in (1.78 m)

Michael Graham Cox (6 January 1938 – 8 April 1995) was an English actor.[1]

Career

Born at Wolverhampton, and an Old Wulferian, Cox moved to London after graduating in Music with German from Bristol University in 1960s. Residing first at a flat in Oxford Street, he soon settled at Randolph Crescent W9, later being decanted by The Paddington Church Commissioners to a delightful garden flat around the corner at 32 Clifton Gardens, within easy walking distance of his favourite watering holes the Warrington Castle, The Prince Alfred, and The Warwick Castle, where he frequently socialised with many buddies including Jane Morgan, Tony Osoba, Michael Aspel and John Inman.

He was most famous for voicing Boromir in the 1978 film The Lord of the Rings and the same character in the 1981 radio serialisation, as well as voicing Bigwig in the feature film Watership Down.

Cox had a minor role in Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far and Cry Freedom. He appeared many times on stage and in television dramas such as Grange Hill, as kindly teacher Mr. Butterworth. He also starred with Derek Nimmo and Rosemary Leach in the TV sitcom Life Begins At Forty. Other BBC radio dramas produced and directed by Jane Morgan (a lifelong, friend and colleague) included her Dickens series.

Cox died on 8 April 1995 following a history of several strokes, diabetic complications and finally dementia, at an hospice in Wimbledon. He was buried next to his brother John at the Catholic Diocese of Beaconsfield. His wife Davina Beswick, a fellow alumnus of Bristol Old Vic passed away on 31st July 2018, peacefully at Sudbury Suffolk. Their sole issue Dominic an Architect trained at Cambridge University, John's only child Susan hi niece, and her mother June, survive him, residing in Western Kenya, and Banbury Oxon, respectively.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ The New York Times


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