Michael Graham Cox

Michael Graham Cox was an English actor who moved to London after graduating in music and German from Bristol University in the 1960s. He was best known for his voice roles, playing Boromir in the 1978 Lord of the Rings film and the same character in a 1981 radio serialization, and Bigwig in Watership Down (1978). His part as Palmer in Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969) was arguably his career highlight. On stage he played Shakespearean roles with the Old Vic on tour in the late 1950s and appeared in the West End in the early 1960s, including Coward's Hay Fever. He also worked at the Young Vic in the 1970s and 1980s. His screen work included a minor part in A Bridge Too Far and Cry Freedom, two films by Richard Attenborough, the teacher Mr. Butterworth in Grange Hill, Wally Brabham in a 1982 episode of Minder, and a lead in the sitcom Life Begins at Forty.