Alex Cox

Dec 15, 1954 (71 years old) in Liverpool, England, UK

Alexander Cox (born in Bebington, Merseyside, 15 December 1954) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career on independent movies of steadily declining budgets, championing the increased individual creative freedom that comes with lower production investment.

Known For

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Revengers Tragedy

Duke's Driver

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Highway Patrolman

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Floundering

Photographer

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Three Businessmen

Frank King

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Quantum Cowboys

Fr. John Kino

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Scarred

Porno Stud

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The Winner

Gaston

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Straight to Hell

A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)

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Catchfire

D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)

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Sid and Nancy

Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)

Credits

Dead Souls 2025

Strindler

★ NR
Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult 2025

Self

★ 10
Quantum Cowboys 2023

Fr. John Kino

★ 9
Mad God 2021

Last Man

★ 6.8
Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects 2021

Self

★ NR
An Unknown Enemy 2018

Winston Scott

★ 8
Fake News And How To Evade It 2017

Himself (Host)

★ NR
The Curse of the Dragon Sword 2017

Blacksmith

★ 5.5
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider 2016

Self

★ 5.8
Zero Tolerance 2015

Himself

★ NR
Doc of the Dead 2014

Self

★ 6.2
Repo Chick 2009

Professor

★ 3.6
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects 2008

Narrator

★ 8.4
Dispatches from Nicaragua 2008

★ 6
The Oxford Murders 2008

Kalman

★ 6
Searchers 2.0 2007

Entrepreneur

★ 6.2
A Wonderful World 2006

Maestro de Ceremonias

★ 7.6
Repossessed 2006

Himself

★ 1
The Spaghetti West 2005

Self

★ 5.8
Rosario Tijeras 2005

Donovan

★ 6.7
I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me! 2004

Doctor

★ NR
An Opera of Violence 2003

Self - Filmmaker

★ 6
The Wages of Sin 2003

Self - Filmmaker

★ 7.4
Something to Do with Death 2003

Self - Filmmaker

★ 6
Dominator 2003

Bishop (voice)

★ 1.3
Revengers Tragedy 2002

Duke's Driver

★ 5.4
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look 2001

Himself - Host

★ 5.2
Todo el poder 2000

Cuervo

★ 6.5
Herod's Law 1999

Gringo

★ 7.9
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor 1999

Narrator (voice)

★ 5.5
Three Businessmen 1998

Frank King

★ 6.2
Godzilla, King of the Monsters 1998

★ 8.9
Dance with the Devil 1997

Doyle

★ 6.5
David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme 1997

Himself

★ 5
The Winner 1996

Gaston

★ 4.3
Floundering 1994

Photographer

★ 4.9
The Queen of the Night 1994

Klaus Eder

★ 4.7
Cuentos de Borges 1993

Commander Borges

★ NR
Death and the Compass 1992

Commander Borges

★ 5.8
Highway Patrolman 1991

★ 6.2
Catchfire 1990

D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Moviedrome 1988

★ 6
Straight to Hell 1987

A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)

★ 5.3
England's Glory 1987

Interviewee

★ 2
Sid and Nancy 1986

Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)

★ 6.7
Scarred 1984

Porno Stud

★ 2
Repo Man 1984

Carwash Attendant

★ 6.7
The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom 1981

Voice characterizations (voice)

★ 5
Sleep Is for Sissies 1980

Roy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)

★ NR