Joel Cox was born in 1942 and his film career began at a very early age

• appearing before the cameras, in fact - as a baby in the film 'Random

Harvest'. Some twenty years later he began work as a mail-room boy with Warner Brothers, the company with whom he has worked ever since, and in 1969 moved into the cutting-room, as an uncredited assistant editor on 'Woodstock' and 'The Wild Bunch'. He was a credited assistant on 'The Outlaw Josey Wales', working for the first time with Clint Eastwood. A durable collaboration followed with Cox cutting all films made by Eastwood since.