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Wally Cox

Wally Cox

cumpleaños: 1924-12-06 | lugar de nacimiento: Detroit, Michigan, USA

Wally Cox was a beloved character actor who made his mark in television and ranks as one of the medium's most memorable performers. His ability to show his range likely was limited by his short stature, slight frame, and high-pitched voice, which along with his talent for being very funny, made him ideal for comedy parts such as his memorable turn as Professor P. Caspar Biddle in "The Bird-Watchers" episode of The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) in 1966. His television persona was that of a shy, timid man in horn-rimed glasses who spoke in a tentative, though distinctly enunciated, voice. It was a persona that his long-time friend Marlon Brando said was completely at odds with the real man. Cox always will be remembered as the eponymous "Mr. Peepers" and the voice of "Underdog," but he was an actor of wider talents seldom used by the industry, as can be seen in his turns as the sonar operator in The Bedford Incident (1965) and as the potential suicide Wally Haverstraw in The Bill Cosby Show (1969) episode "Goodbye, Cruel World" in 1970. Dying unexpectedly on February 15, 1973, from what some newspapers described as an accidental overdose of sedatives but which Marlon Brando in his autobiography said was a heart attack, Wally Cox's cremated remains were kept hidden in a closet by his old friend for three decades. According to Brando's son Miko, both his father's and Cox's ashes were scattered at the same time in Death Valley, California, in a ceremony following Brando's death, thus reuniting the lifetime friends.

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año
título

rol

1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths

as    (archive footage)

1985
Reel Horror

as    Clyde (archive footage)

1973
A Noite do Estrangulador

as    Mr. Berry

1972
Once Upon a Mattress

as    The Jester

1971
Dinheiro, Poder e Bananas

as    Mertons

1970
S.O.S: Gatunos ao Mar!

as    Jason

1968
A Banda da Família Bower

as    Mr. Wampler

1967
Ironside

as    Scoutmaster

1965
Morituri

as    Dr. Ambach

1965
O Caso Bedford

as    Seaman Merlin Queffle

1964
Underdog

as    Underdog (Voice)

1963
Os Nove Irmãos

as    Preacher Goodman

1962
Feira de Ilusões

as    Hipplewaite

1962
Something's Got to Give

as    Shoe Salesman

1956
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

as    Hiram Holliday

1955
Babes in Toyland

as    Grumio, the Toymaker

1955
Heidi

as    Peter

1954
Babes in Toyland

as    Grumio, the Toymaker

1952
Mister Peepers

as    Robinson Peepers