Ronny Cox and Bob P. Cox, a carpenter who also worked at a dairy. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico. Cox met his wife Mary when she was in the fifth grade and he was in the seventh grade, and they married in 1960. Cox graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1963 with a double major in theater and speech correction. Mary died in 2006, 50 years to the day of their first date. Cox often talks about her during his music performances. As an actor, Cox made his debut in the acclaimed 1972 film "Deliverance." In one scene, he
Ned Beatty the bride in "Prelude to a Kiss" (1992), opposite Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin. In 1993, he appeared in the true story "Rudy", playing a Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fan whose son, against all odds, makes the school's football team. Beatty starred in the television series "" as Detective Stanley Bolander for its first three seasons (1993–1995). Beatty made the 1994 science-fiction film "Replikator" (1994) and mystery-comedy "Radioland Murders". In 1995, he worked with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne in the thriller "Just Cause". He appeared as Judge Roy Bean in the TV miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's western