Wally Cox
Acting
Awards
Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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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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Acting
48 credits
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Mission: Impossible
Wagon Train
Love, American Style
The Merv Griffin Show
The Twilight Zone
Get Smart
The Lucy Show
The Dick Cavett Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
Burke's Law
What's My Line?
Lost in Space
The Steve Allen Show
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Odd Couple
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Here's Lucy
The Ed Sullivan Show
Suspense
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
It Takes a Thief
I Spy
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Vacation Playhouse
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Hollywood Squares
DuPont Show of the Month
The Hollywood Palace
The Bill Cosby Show
Letter to Loretta
The Lux Show
Underdog
Mister Peepers
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
The Bedford Incident
Morituri
A Guide for the Married Man
General Electric Theater
Spencer's Mountain
Television: The First Fifty Years
The Barefoot Executive
Fate Is the Hunter
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
The Night Strangler
Ironside
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12 credits
Matinee Theater
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Night Gallery
Alias Smith and Jones
McMillan & Wife
Your Show of Shows
Underdog
Danger
Search
Mister Roberts
Max Liebman Presents
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