Daniel Ronald Cox Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Daniel Ronald "Ronny" Cox (born July 23, 1938) is an American character actor, author, and singer-songwriter. His best-known roles include Drew Ballinger in Deliverance (1972), George Apple in Apple's Way (1974-75), Lieutenant Andrew Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Richard "Dick" Jones in RoboCop (1987) and Vilos Cohaagen in Total Recall (1990). Ronny wrote a book about his experience filming Deliverance for the movie's 40th anniversary in 2012. He is plays over 100 shows at festivals and theaters each year with his band.
Frequently plays antagonistic military or government officials who have many disagreements with the protagonist
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Frequently plays strong-willed, confrontational authority figures
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The fun for me is playing characters -- not that I would ever turn down superstardom. But I would only use stardom as a way to get access to all the really great roles. I want to play everything.
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I'm not a well-trained actor in the classical sense but what I think I have going for me is a sense of honesty about my work.
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I don't have much respect for what I call the 'technical' actors, who work out every little nuance of how they're going to say the words. To me, that's acting in a vacuum. It seems to me to be a tremendous act of hubris to decide ahead of time how you're going to react to the way I say something. I love playing characters. I'm not interested in playing myself, although I'm the conduit for that character.
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"The fun for me is still acting, though I like doing everything. I'm not really interested in being a superstar. I have a really wonderful, secure private life. The thing about becoming a 'star' is that you get offered the really good roles and that's what I want. I found out a long time ago that the hardest thing about playing Hamlet is being asked to do it. Luckily for me, now, I'm being asked." (from a 1988 interview)
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Is also a folk singer.
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Fronted a rock 'n' roll band called Ron's Rockouts with two of his brothers while attending college. He not only sung most of the lead vocals, but also played rhythm guitar and blues harp in the band.
Graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in theater and speech correction.
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Has been known to enjoy a good game of bridge.
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Met his wife, Mary Cox, in high school when he was 14.
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When he guest-starred as Captain Edward Jellico in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) entitled "Chain of Command: Parts 1 and 2" (episode # 6.11) 19 December 1992, he had the distinction of being the only other actor besides Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes in "The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2" to do a "Captain's Log" entry on the entire run of the series.
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Has played two fictional Presidents of the United States: President Tom Kimball in Captain America (1990) and President Jack Neil in Murder at 1600 (1997). His character Senator/Vice President Robert Kinsey in Stargate SG-1 (1997) became President in several episodes, however, these were "alternate universe/alternative timeline" scenarios. In the episode "2010" (episode #4.16), we see Robert Kinsey as the President, in the episode "Moebius (Part 1)" (episode #8.19) he is referred to as the President.
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Remembered best as the moral-minded and ill-fated Drew Ballinger who instigates the legendary "Dueling Banjos" sequence with a mountain boy in Deliverance (1972), Cox is a real-life singer-songwriter and guitarist as well as master storyteller. He and his band do about 80 shows a year at folk festivals, small theatres and other folk venues.
$20 Million
