John Henry Cox

John Henry Cox was born December 18 1951 He is an actor known for West New York 1996 My Own Love Song 2010 and House of Cards 2014 His parents Lois and Henry Cox were a teacher and a Southern Baptist minister descended from generations of Irish and Danish farmers While attending high school in Casa Grande Arizona Cox played football and acted in nearly every play the school put on At University of Arizona in Tucson he started in premed majoring in Biology but he went to see Mourning Becomes Electra at the university theater and a week later he changed his major to TheaterPerformance Option Classical training ensued While at U of A he was hired by Leonard Katzman to play a Comanchero in an episode of Gunsmoke being shot at Old Tucson The SAG card from that made him eligible to audition for Lee Phillips who cast him as The Lieutenant in the film for television of The Red Badge of Courage with Richard Thomas as The Youth That was followed by several guest star roles on the series Petrocelli produced by Leonard Katzman After two years in California performing in plays at Company of Angels and doing roles in episodics and miniseries Cox moved to New York in the late 1970s He has done many theater productions including Shakespeare plays on Broadway and in Central Park and continues to work in television and film