John Henry Cox

His parents were married at ages 16 and 17 in 1941 just after the war began, and their first child was born in '43. On December 30, 2014, they celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary.

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 pre-med, majoring in Biology, but he went to see Mourning Becomes Electra at the university theater, and a week later he changed his major to Theater/Performance 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.

John Henry CoxJohn Henry Cox was born December 18, 1951.

His great uncle Perry Powers doubled for Will Rogers in the movies. Powers did many of Rogers' rope tricks, as well as the trick riding and shooting. In 1932, Powers loaned his pal Gene Autry a white shirt to get married in.

His maternal grandfather came through Ellis Island from Denmark in 1909 at age 19.