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Alex Cox
Directing · Born 1954-12-15 · Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
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
ScreenPlay
Director
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Screenplay
The Private Detective Mike
Writer
Moviedrome
1988
Catchfire
D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)
Rosario Tijeras
Donovan
Walker
Director
Sid and Nancy
Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)
Mad God
Last Man
The Oxford Murders
Kalman
Filmography
- 2025Dead SoulsStrindler
- 2025Moviedrome: Welcome to the CultSelf
- 2023Quantum CowboysFr. John Kino
- 2023Eventos en El CampoDirector
- 2021Mad GodLast Man
- 2021Film-Related Scrap Wood ProjectsSelf
- 2018An Unknown EnemyWinston Scott
- 201827: The Cursed ClubWriter
- 2017Fake News And How To Evade ItHimself (Host)
- 2017The Curse of the Dragon SwordBlacksmith
- 2017Tombstone RashomonHamlet performer
- 2016Dennis Hopper: Uneasy RiderSelf
- 2015Zero ToleranceHimself
- 2014Bill the Galactic HeroScreenplay
- 2014Doc of the DeadSelf
- 2012Scene MissingDirector
- 2009Repo ChickProfessor
- 2008Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special EffectsNarrator
- 2008Dispatches from Nicaragua
- 2008The Oxford MurdersKalman
- 2007Searchers 2.0Entrepreneur
- 2006A Wonderful WorldMaestro de Ceremonias
- 2006RepossessedHimself
- 2005The Spaghetti WestSelf
- 2005Rosario TijerasDonovan
- 2004I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me!Doctor
- 2003An Opera of ViolenceSelf - Filmmaker
- 2003The Wages of SinSelf - Filmmaker
- 2003Something to Do with DeathSelf - Filmmaker
- 2003DominatorBishop (voice)
- 2002Revengers TragedyDuke's Driver
- 2002The Private Detective MikeWriter
- 2001Emmanuelle: A Hard LookHimself - Host
- 2000Gimme PowerCuervo
- 1999Herod's LawGringo
- 1999Kurosawa: The Last EmperorNarrator (voice)
- 1998Three BusinessmenFrank King
- 1998Godzilla, King of the Monsters
- 1998Fear and Loathing in Las VegasScreenplay
- 1997Dance with the DevilDoyle
- 1997David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the ExtremeHimself
- 1996The WinnerGaston
- 1994FlounderingPhotographer
- 1994The Queen of the NightKlaus Eder
- 1994Dead BeatEnglish Teacher
- 1993Cuentos de BorgesCommander Borges
- 1992Death and the CompassCommander Borges
- 1991Highway Patrolman
- 1990Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole PorterDirector
- 1990CatchfireD.H. Lawrence (uncredited)
- 1988Moviedrome
- 1987WalkerDirector
- 1987Straight to HellA Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)
- 1987England's GloryInterviewee
- 1986Sid and NancyMan Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)
- 1986ScreenPlayDirector
- 1984ScarredPorno Stud
- 1984Repo ManCarwash Attendant
- 1981The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's BoredomVoice characterizations (voice)
- 1980Sleep Is for SissiesRoy Rawlings (as I. Nukem)
- —Repo Man 2: The Wages of BeerDirector
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