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Full Name
  
Frank Dixon Cox

Spouse
  
Bridget Turner

Role
  
Television Director


Name
  
Frank Cox

Occupation
  
director

Education
  
University of Leeds

Born
  
28 May 1940 (age 83) (
1940-05-28
)
London, England

Frank Cox (born 28 May 1940) is a British television director from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was married to actress Bridget Turner.

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Cox studied English at the University of Leeds from which he graduated in 1962. He did not get into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), but took a job as a floor assistant at the BBC. He was then offered a position on the BBC's training course for directors. Among his first assignments were three episodes of the first season of Doctor Who.

Of all the directors who worked on the 1963-1989 run of Doctor Who, Cox is the only one who did not direct an entire serial at some stage.

Director

  • Doctor Who
  • The Edge of Destruction (Episode two - The Brink of Disaster) - 1964
  • The Sensorites (Episode five - Kidnap, and Episode six - A Desperate Venture) - 1964
  • The Troubleshooters - 1965
  • The First Lady - 1968
  • Doomwatch - 1970
  • Paul Temple
  • Catch Your Death - 1971
  • The View from Daniel Pike - 1971
  • Sutherland's Law - 1973
  • Warship - 1973
  • Play for Today
  • Take the High Road - 1984, 1989–1991
  • PQ17 - 1981

    • Taggart - 1994

    Producer

  • Sutherland's Law1973 -1976
  • The End of the Good Times - 1975
  • Take the High Road - 1991-1993
  • Escape - 1980
  • C.A.T.S. Eyes - 1985

    • Self

  • Over The Edge - 2006
  • Inside the Spaceship - 2006

    • References

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