Alan Cox

Alan Douglas Cox (born 6 August 1970) is a British actor. He is known for portraying 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 and Torin.

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 Film

Television YearTitleRoleNotes 1978 The Devil's Crown Young Henry Episode: "The Earth Is Not Enough" 1979 Penmarric Young Jan-Yves Episode: "Series 1, Episode 7" 1980 Shoestring John Episode: "The Dangerous Game" 1983 Jane Eyre John Reed Episode: "Gateshead" 1990 Casualty Joshua Episode: "Results" 1991 The Bill Steve Doyle Episode: "Stress Rules"1992 Screen One Seth Bade Episode: "Adam Bede" Spatz Graham Episode: "Poetry & Music" London's Burning Richard Sidwell Episode: "Series 5, Episode 3" The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles Dimitri Episode: "Petrograd, July 1917" 1994 The Bill Connor Episode: "Creating a Market" 1995 Crown Prosecutor David Ellery Episode: "Series 1, Episode 8"1996 Ellington Tadeusz Zbinkiewicz Episode: "No Holds Barred" The Thin Blue Line Bob Tough Episode: "Fly on the Wall" 1997 The Odyssey Elpenor Mini-series 2004 Midsomer Murders Stephen Bannerman Episode: "The Maid in Splendour" 2007 The Wild West Mark Kellogg Episode: "Custer's Last Strand"2008 M.I. High David DeHaverland Episode: "It's a Kind of Magic" John Adams William Maclay Episode: "Unite or Die" 2009 The Bill Phil Reaney Episode: "Fall Out" 2013 Lucan Ian Maxwell-Scott Mini-series 2014 The Good Wife Douglas Episode: "Goliath and David" 2015 The Sonnet Project Episode: "Sonnet #30" 2021 New Amsterdam Lyle Episode: "More Joy"

Theatre YearTitleRoleTheatre 2025 Churchill in Moscow Archie Clark Kerr Orange Tree Theatre