birth_place name birth_date spouse article_title birth_name occupation
london , england frank cox 28 may 1940 bridget turner frank cox -lrb- director -rrb-
 frank dixon cox director
frank cox -lrb- director -rrb-

frank cox -lrb- born 28 may 1940 -rrb- is a british film director from the 1960s to the 1990s .
he was married to actress bridget turner .
cox studied english at the university of leeds from which he graduated in 1962 .
he did not get into the royal academy of dramatic art -lrb- rada -rrb- , but took a job as a floor assistant at the bbc .
he was then offered a position on the bbc 's training course for directors .
among his first assignments were three episodes of the first season of `` doctor who '' .
of all the directors who worked on the 1963-1989 run of `` doctor who '' , cox is the only one who did n't direct an entire serial at some stage .
