"I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette."
Daniel Ronald Cox (born July 23, 1938 in Cloudcroft, New Mexico) is an American actor and musician, best known for playing villains such as Dick Jones and Vilos Cohaagen. He's also one of the main cast members in Deliverance, playing Drew Ballinger.
Oh, and stop laughing at his name.
His personal website can be found here
and his Twitter can be found here.
Notable roles by Ronny Cox:
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Films
- American Outlaws: Doc Mimms
- Being the Ricardos: Bob Carroll Jr. (older)
- Beverly Hills Cop: Andrew Bogomil
- Bound for Glory: Ozark Bule
- Captain America: President Tom Kimball
- The Car: Deputy Luke Johnson
- The Car: Road to Revenge: Waits
- A Case of Rape: David Harrod
- Deep Blue Sea: Franklin's Boss (cameo)
- Deliverance: Drew Ballinger
- Forces of Nature: Hadley Cahill
- Gray Lady Down : Commander David Samuelson
- Imagine That: Tom Stevens
- In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders: Ben Grogan
- Invasion America: Doc
- Loose Cannons: Bob Smiley
- Murder at 1600: President Jack Neil
- RoboCop: Dick Jones
- Taps : Colonel Kerby
- Todd McFarlane's Spawn: Billy Kincaid and Senator McMillian
- Total Recall: Vilos Cohaagen
- Vision Quest: Larry Swain
TV series
- Boston Public: Claire's Father
- Cold Case: Daniel Patterson '08
- Commander in Chief: Senator Joe Peck
- Cop Rock: Roger Kendrick
- Darkroom: Neil Pollux
- Desperate Housewives: Henry Mason
- Dexter: Walter Kenney
- Diagnosis: Murder: Dr. Nathan Harding
- From the Earth to the Moon: Lee Atwood
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Dr. McManus
- Leverage: Peter McSweeten
- Medium: Mr. Hammond
- Nashville: Gideon Claybourne
- The Outer Limits (1995): Lt. Col. Lester Glade
- Star Trek: The Next Generation: Captain Edward Jellico
- Stargate SG-1: Senator Robert Kinsey
- St. Elsewhere: Dr. John Gideon
- True Detective: Catalast Executive/Kane
Video games
Tropes in Ronny Cox's work:
- Typecasting: Often cast as villains or politicians. Often both.
