First living at a flat in Oxford Street, he soon settled at Randolph Crescent W9, later being relocated by The Paddington Church Commissioners to a garden flat around the corner at 32 Clifton Gardens close to his favourite pubs The Warrington, The Prince Alfred, and The Warwick Castle, where he frequently socialised with friends including Jane Morgan, Tony Osoba, Michael Aspel and John Inman.

Other BBC radio dramas produced and directed by Jane Morgan (a lifelong, friend and colleague) included her Dickens series.

West End stage roles in early 1960s included Coward's 'Hay Fever' with Prunella Scales, Roland Culver.

The 1970's and 1980s saw him as Antony to Delphine Seyrig's Cleopatra, and alongside James Bolam's King Lear, together with several other productions at The Young Vic, at The Cut.

Cox died on 30 April 1995 at a hospice in Wimbledon, following several strokes, diabetic complications and finally dementia, all alcohol induced.