Richard Cox (actor)
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Richard Cox is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Max Frazier on Ghostwriter
. Was nominated for Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for Platinum
.
While attending Yale
, Cox was awarded fellowships to go to Japan, Bali, Samoa and Poland.
Has a B.A. in anthropology from Yale.
Has performed in summer theater at the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire.
Served as best man at the wedding of Yale classmate and Doonesbury
cartoonist Garry Trudeau
and Jane Pauley
.
He performed on Broadway with Ingrid Bergman
in Captain Brassbound's Conversion
before going to Hollywood in 1975 with the national company of Grease
.
Cox went to private schools before attending Yale and majoring in both drama and anthropology.
The only child of Gabe Zuckerman and Roseanna Cox, who both began as professional dancers. His father left show business to become a real estate agent. His mother, a psychotherapist, still performs every summer in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He appeared on stage there with her at age 8.
A native of Manhattan's Chelsea area.
Had a child in 1980 via his relationship with actress Kathryn Harrold
. They shared a 22nd Street loft in New York before relocating to Los Angeles, dwelling in a two-story frame house in Coldwater Canyon. His nickname for her was "Kitty".
Ghostwriter (TV series)
Ghostwriter is an American television program created by Liz Nelson and produced by the Children's Television Workshop and BBC One. It began airing on PBS on October 4, 1992, and the final episode aired on February 13, 1995...
. Was nominated for Broadway's 1979 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) for Platinum
Platinum (musical)
Platinum is a musical with a book by Will Holt and Bruce Vilanch, music by Gary William Friedman, and lyrics by Holt. Set in a Hollywood recording studio, it centers on Lila Halliday, a star of 1940s and 50s movie musicals who is attempting a comeback...
.
While attending Yale
YALE
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, Cox was awarded fellowships to go to Japan, Bali, Samoa and Poland.
Has a B.A. in anthropology from Yale.
Has performed in summer theater at the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire.
Served as best man at the wedding of Yale classmate and Doonesbury
Doonesbury
Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college...
cartoonist Garry Trudeau
Garry Trudeau
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.-Background and education:...
and Jane Pauley
Jane Pauley
Margaret Jane Pauley is an American television journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975...
.
He performed on Broadway with Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
in Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Captain Brassbound's Conversion is a play by G. Bernard Shaw. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection Three Plays for Puritans . The first American production of the play starred Ellen Terry in 1907....
before going to Hollywood in 1975 with the national company of Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
.
Cox went to private schools before attending Yale and majoring in both drama and anthropology.
The only child of Gabe Zuckerman and Roseanna Cox, who both began as professional dancers. His father left show business to become a real estate agent. His mother, a psychotherapist, still performs every summer in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He appeared on stage there with her at age 8.
A native of Manhattan's Chelsea area.
Had a child in 1980 via his relationship with actress Kathryn Harrold
Kathryn Harrold
-Background:Harrold was born in Tazewell, Virginia. She attended Mills College in Oakland, California, majoring in Drama.-Television:She has appeared in a number of TV series, including The Rockford Files, MacGruder and Loud, The Bronx Zoo, I'll Fly Away, The Larry Sanders Show, and Mister...
. They shared a 22nd Street loft in New York before relocating to Los Angeles, dwelling in a two-story frame house in Coldwater Canyon. His nickname for her was "Kitty".