Alex Cox
Biography
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.
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Mad God
as Last Man
2021
Repo Man
as Carwash Attendant
1984
Sid and Nancy
as Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)
1986
Herod's Law
as Gringo
1999
Catchfire
as D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)
1990
Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film
as Self
2001
The Oxford Murders
as Kalman
2008
Dance with the Devil
as Doyle
1997
Rosario Tijeras
as Donovan
2005
Doc of the Dead
as Self
2014
Dead Souls
as Strindler
2025
Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
as Himself - Host
2001
Gimme Power
as Cuervo
2000
Floundering
as Photographer
1994
Godzilla, King of the Monsters
1998
The Queen of the Night
as Klaus Eder
1994
The Winner
as Gaston
1996
Repo Chick
as Professor
2009
Death and the Compass
as Commander Borges
1992
Highway Patrolman
as Gringo #2
1991
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
as Narrator
2008
The Wages of Sin
as Self - Filmmaker
2003
Straight to Hell
as A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)
1987
A Wonderful World
as Maestro de Ceremonias
2006
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
as Self
2016
The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom
as Voice characterizations (voice)
1981
Dead Beat
as English Teacher
1994
Quantum Cowboys
as Fr. John Kino
2023
Something to Do with Death
as Self - Filmmaker
2003
Moviedrome: Welcome to the Cult
as Self
2025
Three Businessmen
as Frank King
1998
David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme
as Himself
1997
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
as Narrator (voice)
1999
An Opera of Violence
as Self - Filmmaker
2003
Tombstone Rashomon
as Hamlet performer
2017
I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!
as Doctor
2004
Revengers Tragedy
as Duke's Driver
2002
Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008
The Spaghetti West
as Self
2005
Dominator
as Bishop (voice)
2003
The Curse of the Dragon Sword
as Blacksmith
2017
England's Glory
as Interviewee
1987
Visitor Jindřich Polák
as Self
2025
Sleep Is for Sissies
as Roy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)
1980
Scarred
as Porno Stud
1984
Fake News And How To Evade It
as Himself (Host)
2017
Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects
as Self
2021
Repossessed
as Himself
2006
Zero Tolerance
as Himself
2015
Searchers 2.0
as Entrepreneur
2010
