Biography
Jack E. Cox, also credited as Jack Cox, John J. Cox or J. J. Cox, was an English cinematographer. He began as a camera assistant in 1913 and became a director of photography around 1920, working at studios including Stoll and British International Pictures.
Cox collaborated extensively with Alfred Hitchcock on early British films, serving as director of photography on The Ring (1927), The Farmer's Wife (1928), Champagne (1928), Blackmail (1929), The Manxman (1929), Murder! (1930), The Skin Game (1931), Rich and Strange (1931), Number Seventeen (1932) and The Lady Vanishes (1938). He later worked at Gainsborough Pictures on titles such as The Wicked Lady (1945) and continued into the 1950s on comedies.
A member of the British Society of Cinematographers, Cox photographed around 85 to 90 films over more than three decades. He died in Surrey on 29 July 1960.
