Tony Cox, right, with Billy Bob Thornton and Bernie Mac in a scene from “Bad Santa.” (Courtesy Dimension Films)
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Tony Cox, pictured here at 4 years old, with his grandfather, Henry Jones, at their home in Uniontown, Alabama in 1962. (Courtesy of Bettie Jimerson)
Tony Cox in an undated photo playing the drums. Growing up in Uniontown, Alabama, Cox had a band called Tony and the Real Thing before becoming an actor. (Courtesy of Bettie Jimerson)
Tony Cox during his graduation from Robert C. Hatch High School in Uniontown, Alabama in 1976. (Courtesy of Bettie Jimerson)
Hollywood
Actor Tony Cox in an undated photo from the 1980s. Before “Bad Santa,” the Uniontown, Alabama native worked with everyone from Tim Burton to Michael Jackson and George Lucas. (Courtesy Ryan Steven Green/Frontiersman Pictures)
Tony Cox, right, with William Katt in the ABC series “The Greatest American Hero” in 1981. (Photo by American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images)
8-year-old girl struck, 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁ed in Tuscaloosa County‘Bad Santa’
Director Terry Zwigoff speaks on stage during the 2022 Roger Ebert Film Festival on April 22, 2022 in Champaign, Illinois. (Photo by Timothy Hiatt/Getty Images for The Roger Ebert’s Film Festival)
Peter Dinklage, a cast member in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” waves to photographers at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, at the TCL Chinese Theatre. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Stepping away
Actor Tony Cox appearing in an episode of the USA Network show “Psych” from 2010 with James Roday Rodriguez. (Photo by Alan Zenuk/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal)
Stepping away
Actor Tony Cox speaking in the documentary “Hollywood Shorties” about his time where he was on a baseball and basketball team exclusively made up of little people working in Hollywood. Throughout his career, the Uniontown, Alabama native worked with everyone from Tim Burton to Michael Jackson and George Lucas. (Courtesy Ryan Steven Green/Frontiersman Pictures)
Tony Cox and Terry Zwigoff during “Bad Santa” – Los Angeles Premiere and After-Party at Bruin Theater in Westwood, California, United States. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 30: Actor Tony Cox speaks onstage during the “Stars of Bad Santa 2” panel at Entertainment Weekly’s PopFest at The Reef on October 30, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Entertainment Weekly)