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Wally Cox
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 limite…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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1999
Television: The First Fifty Years
Movie Robinson J. Peepers (archive footage)
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1990
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Movie (archive footage)
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1985
Reel Horror
Movie Clyde (archive footage)
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1976
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
Movie Self - Tribute Montage (archive footage)
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1973
The Night Strangler
Movie Mr. Berry
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1972
Once Upon a Mattress
Movie The Jester
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1972
Magic Carpet
Movie Harold Kane
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1972
Search
TV show
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1971
McMillan & Wife
TV show
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1971
The Barefoot Executive
Movie Mertons
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1971
Alias Smith and Jones
TV show
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1970
Up Your Teddy Bear
Movie Clyde King
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1970
Night Gallery
TV show
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1970
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
Movie Becker
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1970
The Odd Couple
TV show Mr. Fegivney
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1970
The Boatniks
Movie Jason
More credits
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1970
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Movie Mr. Bester
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1970
The Young Country
Movie Aaron Grimes / Ira Greebe
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1970
Quarantined
Movie Wilbur Mott
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1969
Love, American Style
TV show Peter
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1969
The Bill Cosby Show
TV show Wally Haverstraw
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1969
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TV show Self
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1968
Here's Lucy
TV show Rock Barnett
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1968
The Dick Cavett Show
TV show Self - Guest
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1968
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
Movie Mr. Wampler
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1968
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV show Self (uncredited)
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1968
It Takes a Thief
TV show Tourist
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1967
A Guide for the Married Man
Movie Technical Adviser
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1967
Ironside
Movie Scoutmaster
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1966
Murder at N.B.C.
Movie
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1966
Hollywood Squares
TV show Self
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1966
Mission: Impossible
TV show Terry Targo
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1966
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
TV show Little John Doe
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1965
The Bedford Incident
Movie Seaman Merlin Queffle
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1965
Get Smart
TV show TV Repairman (uncredited)
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1965
Mister Roberts
TV show
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1965
Lost in Space
TV show Tiabo
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1965
I Spy
TV show Herbie
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1965
Morituri
Movie Dr. Ambach
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1964
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Movie Ferguson
