Wally Cox
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.
78 acting credits
Acting · 78
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
Love, American Style
1969
Mission: Impossible
1966
Wagon Train
1957
Get Smart
1965
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Beverly Hillbillies
1962
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
The Odd Couple
1970
Burke's Law
1963
The Lucy Show
1962
What's My Line?
1950
Matinee Theater
1955
Lost in Space
1965
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Night Gallery
1970
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961
Here's Lucy
1968
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Steve Allen Show
1956
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
McMillan & Wife
1971
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Suspense
1949
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956
It Takes a Thief
1968
Your Show of Shows
1950
I Spy
1965
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
1969
The Hollywood Palace
1964
The Bill Cosby Show
1969
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
Search
1972
Danger
1950
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
Vacation Playhouse
1963
Hollywood Squares
1966
Letter to Loretta
1953
Mister Roberts
1965
Underdog
1964
General Electric Theater
1953
The Lux Show
1957
Mister Peepers
1952
Max Liebman Presents
1954
Spencer's Mountain
1963
A Guide for the Married Man
1967
Morituri
1965
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999
The Bedford Incident
1965
The Barefoot Executive
1971
Fate Is the Hunter
1964
The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
1956
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
1964
Underdog
1964
The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
1970
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
Reel Horror
1985
State Fair
1962
Something's Got to Give
1962
The Young Country
1970
Bob Hope's World of Comedy
1976
The Night Strangler
1973
Ironside
1967
Up Your Teddy Bear
1970
The Boatniks
1970
Magic Carpet
1972
Murder at N.B.C.
1966
Quarantined
1970
Once Upon a Mattress
1972
Babes in Toyland
1954
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
1970
Heidi
1955
Babes in Toyland
1955