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Not who you're looking for? Others named Alan Cox: British computer programmer · American radio personality · Footballer (1920-1993)

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2026 · as James

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2023 · as Roger Rattigan

Before We Go

2014 · as Rich Guy

Act Naturally

2011 · as Cory Beck

Young Sherlock Holmes

1985 · as John Watson

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Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is a British actor. He portrayed a teenage Dr. Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985. Life and career Cox was born in Westminster, London, and is the son of Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor Brian Cox and his second wife, actress Caroline Burt. Cox was educated at St Paul's School in London. He has a sister, Margaret, and two half brothers Orson Jonathan Cox and Torin Kamran Cox. Cox portrayed the young John Mortimer the 1982 TV adaptation of his play A Voyage Round My Father, starring opposite Laurence Olivier. He is probably most widely known for his role in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), where he played a teenage version of Dr. Watson. Other films include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Mrs. Dalloway (1997), and The Auteur Theory (1999). In 2011, Cox also co-starred as a nudist named Cory Beck in the independent comedy Act Naturally. Filmography

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Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is a British actor. He portrayed a teenage Dr. Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes in 1985.

Notable quotes

“A computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines.”
— Re: Interesting analysis of linux kernel threading by IBM.
“Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.”
— Re: Coding style - a non-issue.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Alan Cox: British computer programmer · American radio personality · Footballer (1920-1993)