Tony Cox is an American actor who played in the famous films Willow, Star Wars. Episode VI: Return of the Jedi "and" Bad Santa ". Over the course of his long career, he has appeared in music videos, acted as a producer and appeared on many TV series. Tony is one of the smallest people in the world. His height is 107 centimeters.
Biography
Tony was born in the USA. His hometown, Uniontown, is located in Alabama. Cox was born on March 31, 1958. The actor's parents are Joe Jones and Henrietta Cox. Despite Tony's trait, he had a normal childhood and was educated in high school. At the age of 23 he married Otelia. He was always attracted to acting, so after school he began to actively appear in clips and commercials.
Career
The first film with Tony was released in 1980. It was a horror film with elements of the melodrama and comedy "Dr. Hekil and Mr. Hype". As you might guess from the title, the script is based on an idea from the novel by Robert Stevenson, The Strange Story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Prior to that, Cox managed to star in 2 TV series - "Specials for the weekend" and "Buck Rogers in the twenty-fifth century."
In the 1980s, Tony also appeared on the series America's Greatest Hero, Fairy Tale Theater, Married with Children, and Thirty-Something. In 1982 he again starred in a variation on the theme of Stevenson's novel - the comedy "Jekyll and Hyde … Together Again." His partners on the set were Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Christa Errickson, Tim Tomerson, Michael McGuire, Neil Hunt, Cassandra Peterson and Jessica Nelson.
Creation
The period from 1980 to 1989 was very busy for Tony Cox. He starred in many films, but in them he played only cameo roles. Such films include: the crime comedy "The Stoned 3", the movie by Steve Rash "Under the Rainbow", the melodrama "Smokey Bites the Dust" and the fantastic action adventure "Star Wars: Episode 6 - Return of the Jedi". But in the 1986 short musical Captain Io with Michael Jackson, Cox got one of the main roles. Tony's filmography of this period includes many fantastic films, such as Adventures of the Ewoks, Ewoks: Battle for Endor, Aliens from Mars, Space Eggs, Beetlejuice, Willow and Conquerors from Space.
The next decade was not so rich in roles, but Tony did not start playing the main characters either. This filmography includes several parodies, fantasy and comedies. The most notable and rated were the series "Fraser", which starred Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leaves, David Hyde Pearce, Peri Gilpin and John Mahoney, and Gary Gray's comedy "Friday". In 2000, Cox co-starred with Jim Carrey and Renee Zellweger in the comedy Me, Me & Irene. In 2003 he got one of the main roles in the crime comedy Bad Santa.
Tony was involved in dubbing animated films. In 2012, he collaborated with Tom Hanks and Tim Allen on the Veselosaurus Rex cartoon. In 2016, he starred in the sequel to the funny Christmas story "Bad Santa 2". In total, the actor has almost 100 roles in film and television.
