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 YearTitleRoleNotes 1976 A Divorce Jason TV film 1981 If You Go Down in the Woods Today Cub Scout1982 A Voyage Round My Father Son as a Boy TV film East Lynne William Carlyle TV film 1984 Man of Letters Kenton TV film 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes John Watson 1995 An Awfully Big Adventure Geoffrey 1997 Mrs Dalloway Young Peter 1999 The Auteur Theory George Sand2000 Cor, Blimey! Orsino TV film Weight Henry Salmon2002 Die Wasserfälle von Slunj Donald Clayton TV film The Dinosaur Hunters Richard Owen TV film 2003 Justice Palm Sunday2004 Ladies in Lavender Obsequious Man Not Only But Always Alan Bennett TV film2006 Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes Cuthbert TV film Housewife, 49 Dennis TV film 2008 August Barton 2009 Margaret Gordon Reece TV film 2010 The Nutcracker in 3D Gielgud Voice role2011 Act Naturally Cory Beck The Speed of Thought Alexei 2012 The Dictator BP Executive2018 Staging the Knack and How to Get It Interviewer Short film Say My Name Father Donald Davies 2019 Act Super Naturally Cory Beck2026 The Man with the Plan The Devil
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 MoscowWorld premiere. Howard Brenton's dramatisation of the Moscow Conference (1942). Archie Clark Kerr"Full cast announced for the world premiere of Churchill in Moscow", Orange Tree Theatre website News section. Accessed 12 March 2025 Orange Tree Theatre
Bibliography Holmstrom, John. The Moving Picture Boy: An International Encyclopaedia from 1895 to 1995. Norwich, Michael Russell, 1996, p. 381.
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