Robert (Marvin) Cox Interviews

Also, I wanted to post this short documentary created by authors Lon and Debra Davis, about Robert Cox--an Arizona resident whom Lon and Cheryl Lanning profiled in an article in Arizona Magazine just before Cox's death in 1974. It includes interviews and his appearance on To Tell the Truth. As I mentioned in Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, I believe based on photos and his appearance in the 1970's that Robert Cox was indeed in Keystone comedies, and was likely the same person then known as Marvin Cox. While I have to say that I don't necessarily agree with all of the films he claims to have been in (including Bangville Police and Tillie's Punctured Romance), he does seem to have been a Keystone cop as early as late 1913.

Article on former Keystone Cop Robert Cox

Cheryl Lanning and Lon Davis interviewed and wrote an article on Robert Cox--one of the men who claimed status as "last of the Keystone Cops" in the 1970's--before he died in 1974. Cox lived in Phoenix, and the article originally appeared in Arizona magazine.

Cheryl and Lon have updated the article, and it is now posted on Silents Are Golden. It's a valuable peek into the life of a person who worked in and around the early motion picture industry.