Alex Cox

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.

Directed

1. Repo Man (1984) — Director
2. Sid and Nancy (1986) — Director
3. Walker (1987) — Director
4. Straight to Hell (1987) — Director
5. Highway Patrolman (1991) — Director
6. Repo Chick (2009) — Director
7. The Winner (1996) — Director
8. Death and the Compass (1992) — Director
9. Revengers Tragedy (2002) — Director
10. Three Businessmen (1998) — Director
11. Emmanuelle: A Hard Look (2001) — Director
12. Searchers 2.0 (2007) — Director
13. Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999) — Director
14. The Private Detective Mike (2002) — Director
15. Tombstone Rashomon (2017) — Director
16. Scene Missing (2012) — Director
17. I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me! (2004) — Director
18. ScreenPlay (1986) — Director
19. Sleep Is for Sissies (1980) — Director
20. Bill the Galactic Hero (2014) — Director
21. Cuentos de Borges (1993) — Director
22. Film-Related Scrap Wood Projects (2021) — Director
23. Repo Man 2: The Wages of Beer — Director
24. Eventos en El Campo (2023) — Director
25. Fake News And How To Evade It (2017) — Director
26. Zero Tolerance (2015) — Director
27. Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990) — Director
28. Dead Souls (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Oxford Murders (2008) — Kalman
2. Repo Man (1984) — Carwash Attendant
3. Sid and Nancy (1986) — Man Sitting in Mr. Head’s Room (uncredited)
4. Mad God (2021) — Last Man
5. Dance with the Devil (1997) — Doyle
6. Herod's Law (1999) — Gringo
7. Rosario Tijeras (2005) — Donovan
8. A Wonderful World (2006) — Maestro de Ceremonias
9. Catchfire (1990) — D.H. Lawrence (uncredited)
10. An Unknown Enemy (2018) — Winston Scott
11. Doc of the Dead (2014) — Self
12. Straight to Hell (1987) — A Thug in the Amazulu Band (uncredited)
13. Gimme Power (2000) — Cuervo
14. Highway Patrolman (1991)
15. Repo Chick (2009) — Professor
16. Floundering (1994) — Photographer
17. The Winner (1996) — Gaston
18. Revengers Tragedy (2002) — Duke's Driver
19. Death and the Compass (1992) — Commander Borges
20. The Queen of the Night (1994) — Klaus Eder
21. Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (2008) — Narrator
22. Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1998)
23. Three Businessmen (1998) — Frank King
24. Quantum Cowboys (2023) — Fr. John Kino
25. Emmanuelle: A Hard Look (2001) — Himself - Host
26. Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999) — Narrator (voice)
27. The Wages of Sin (2003) — Self - Filmmaker
28. Searchers 2.0 (2007) — Entrepreneur
29. Tombstone Rashomon (2017) — Hamlet performer
30. An Opera of Violence (2003) — Self - Filmmaker
31. Dominator (2003) — Bishop (voice)
32. Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider (2016) — Self
33. The Spaghetti West (2005) — Self
34. Dead Beat (1994) — English Teacher
35. Scarred (1984) — Porno Stud
36. Something to Do with Death (2003) — Self - Filmmaker
37. David Cronenberg and the Cinema of the Extreme (1997) — Himself
38. The Curse of the Dragon Sword (2017) — Blacksmith
39. The Strange Case of Mr. Donnybrook's Boredom (1981) — Voice characterizations (voice)
40. I'm a Juvenile Delinquent, Jail Me! (2004) — Doctor