Brian Cox
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Biography
Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander. Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal L...
Known For
Filmography
Glenrothan
2026
as Sandy
Super Troopers 3
2026
as Captain O’Hagan
The Sunrise File
2026
as Oded Ailam (voice)
The Parenting
2025
as Frank
The Electric State
2025
as Popfly (voice)
The Marbles
2025
as Self - Interviewee
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025
as AMR
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
VE Day 80
2025
as Self
Dexter: Resurrection
2025
as The New York Ripper
Little Wing
2024
as Jaan Vari
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
2024
as Santa (voice)
Skelly
2024
as Grandpa
Unsinkable
2024
as Robert Dodds
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
as Himself
Quasi
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Mending the Line
2023
as Ike Fletcher
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Max
007: Road to a Million
2023
as The Controller
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023
as Self
The Independent
2022
as Nick Booker
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
as Self
Bonnie
2022
as Self
Ooh the Banter!
2022
as Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022
as Presenter
Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022
as Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self – Actor
Remembers…
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022
as Self - Actor
Separation
2021
as Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021
as Self - Interviewed Guest
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Gilles
The Bay of Silence
2020
as Milton
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
as Father (Voice)
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
as John Rebus
Pretenders
2019
as Henry
Strange but True
2019
as Bill
Remember Me
2019
as Shane
The Last Right
2019
as Father Reilly
Good Omens
2019
as Death (voice)
Super Troopers 2
2018
as Captain O'Hagan
The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Rory MacNeil
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
as The Narrator
Widdershins
2018
as voice
Succession
2018
as Logan Roy
Churchill
2017
as Winston Churchill
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017
as Narrator
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
2017
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017
as Himself
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
as Self
Brian Cox's Russia
2017
as Host
The Russell Howard Hour
2017
as Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
as Self
The Carer
2016
as Sir Michael
Morgan
2016
as Jim Bryce
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
as Tommy Tilden
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
War and Peace
2016
as Mikhail Kutuzov
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016
as Bernardo Guadagni
Pixels
2015
as Admiral Porter
Forsaken
2015
as James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
2015
as Narrator
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
Killing Thyme
2015
as Norman
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
The Slap
2015
as Manolis
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
The Anomaly
2014
as Dr. Langham
The Gospel of John
2014
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Scotland In A Day
2014
The Game
2014
as Daddy
Penny Dreadful
2014
as Jared Talbot
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self
The Great War: The People's Story
2014
as Rev. Andrew Clark
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014
as God
Her
2013
as Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
as Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
2013
as Edgar Hoover
Anna
2013
as Sebastian
Believe
2013
as Matt Busby
Blumenthal
2013
as Harold Blumenthal
RED 2
2013
as Ivan
Shetland
2013
as Magnus Bain
Bob Servant
2013
as Bob Servant
The Last Leg
2013
as Self
The Campaign
2012
as Raymond
Blood
2012
as Lenny Fairburn
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012
as Old Man
All at Sea
2012
as Wally
The Straits
2012
as Harry Montebello
A Touch of Cloth
2012
as Bill Ball
Tooned
2012
as The Mechanic
Addicted to Pleasure
2012
as Self - Host
Ironclad
2011
as Albany
The Veteran
2011
as Gerry
Coriolanus
2011
as Menenius
The Key Man
2011
as Irving
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as John Landon
Exit Humanity
2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Glover
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011
as Captain Sharp
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011
as Self - Participant
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
as Self - Guest
RED
2010
as Ivan Simanov
On Expenses
2010
as Michael Martin
As Good As Dead
2010
as Reverand Kalahan
The Color of Magic 2in1
2010
as Vypravěč
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Good Heart
2009
as Jacques
Tell-Tale
2009
as Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Green Dragon (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
as Self
The Take
2009
as Ozzy
The Day of the Triffids
2009
as Dennis Masen
Kings
2009
as King Vesper Abaddon
Red
2008
as Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
2008
as Frank Perry
Agent Crush
2008
as Spanners (voice)
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008
as Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008
as Narrator
The Colour of Magic
2008
as Narrator
Zodiac
2007
as Melvin Belli
Trick 'r Treat
2007
as Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra
2007
as General Hemmer (voice)
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
as Drosselmeyer
The Water Horse
2007
as Old Angus
A Woman in Winter
2007
as Dr. Hunt
Shoot on Sight
2007
as Daniel Tennant
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
M.I. High
2007
as Voice of the Mastermind
Running with Scissors
2006
as Dr. Finch
The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Douglas Baxter
The Outsiders
2006
as Gabriel
Carry On Ken
2006
as Self
The One Show
2006
as Self - Guest
Red Eye
2005
as Joe Reisert
The Ringer
2005
as Gary Barker
Japan's War in Colour
2005
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hitler in Colour
2005
as Narrator
Match Point
2005
as Alec Hewett
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Joseph Bell
Blue/Orange
2005
as Dr. Robert Smith
The Colbert Report
2005
Troy
2004
as Agamemnon
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Ward Abbott
The Reckoning
2004
as Tobias
Murder by Numbers
2004
as Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004
as Self
Deadwood
2004
as Jack Langrishe
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Lewis Serrocold
X2
2003
as William Stryker
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003
as Self
Sin
2003
as Captain Oakes
One Life
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
The Ring
2002
as Richard Morgan
25th Hour
2002
as James Brogan
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Ward Abbott
Adaptation.
2002
as Robert McKee
Bug
2002
as Cyr
The Rookie
2002
as Jim Morris Sr.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
as Self
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
as Narrator
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
as Narrator
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002
as Narrator
The Biographer
2002
as Michael O'Mara
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
as Narrator
Top Gear
2002
as Self
Masters of Darkness
2002
as Narrator
Super Troopers
2001
as Captain O'Hagen
L.I.E.
2001
as Big John Harrigan
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Minister Breteuil
Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Chisolm
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
as Himself
Richard & Judy
2001
as Self
Complicity
2000
as Inspector McDunn
Mad About Mambo
2000
as Sidney McLoughlin
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
Saltwater
2000
as George Beneventi
A Shot at Glory
2000
as Martin Smith
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
as Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
Nuremberg
2000
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000
as Anubis (voice)
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
The Minus Man
1999
as Doug
The Corruptor
1999
as Sean Wallace
For Love of the Game
1999
as Gary Wheeler
The History of the British Police Force
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Poodle Springs
1998
as Clayton Blackstone
Rushmore
1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Desperate Measures
1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Merchants of Venus
1998
as Uncle Vladimir
Battle of the Clans
1998
as Narrator
Kiss the Girls
1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Boxer
1997
as Joe Hamill
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hogan
Food for Ravens
1997
as Aneurin Bevan
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
1997
as Narrator
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
Chain Reaction
1996
as Lyman Earl Collier
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Mr. Smith
Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Judge Freisler
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Braveheart
1995
as Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
1995
as Killearn
Iron Will
1994
as Angus McTeague
The Maltese Double Cross
1994
as Narrator (voice)
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Aethelwine
Grushko
1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
The Negotiator
1994
as Charlie King
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe
1993
as Major Hogan
Frasier
1993
as Harry Moon
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
as Owen Benjamin
The Cutter
1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Director
Deceptions
1992
as Carlton Heard
The Big Battalions
1992
as Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Macbeth (voice)
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
as Carl May
Red Fox
1991
as Geoffrey Harrison
Performance
1991
as The Director
Hidden Agenda
1990
as Peter Kerrigan
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
as self
Secret Weapon
1990
as Andrew Neil
Perfect Scoundrels
1990
as Father Amedy
Have I Got News for You
1990
as Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
as Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
1989
as Voronov
The Simpsons
1989
as Kostas Becker (voice)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
as Voiceover Narrator
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Jack Purves
Red Dwarf
1988
as The King
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Shoot for the Sun
1987
as Dunny
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
as Narrator
French & Saunders
1987
as King Lear
Inspector Morse
1987
as Michael Steppings
Acting
1987
Manhunter
1986
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Home Cooking
1986
as Vic
Unnatural Causes
1986
as Vic
Florence Nightingale
1985
as Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
as Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II
1984
as Father Góra
King Lear
1983
as Burgundy
The Privilege
1982
as Young Laird
A Cotswold Death
1982
as Dr. Gillespie
House on the Hill
1981
as Leon Douglas
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
as Dalhousie
Hammer House of Horror
1980
as Chuck
Therese Raquin
1980
as Laurent LeClaire
Question Time
1979
as Self - Panellist
Minder
1979
as Frank
Out
1978
as McGrath
The Devil's Crown
1978
as Henry II
Target
1977
as Billy Voss
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
as George Simpson
In Celebration
1975
as Steven Shaw
Shades of Greene
1975
as Harry
The Master of Ballantrae
1975
as Henry Durie
The Changeling
1974
as Alsemero
Playhouse
1974
as Dalhousie
Churchill's People
1974
as William Wallace
Van der Valk
1972
as Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Trotsky
Great Performances
1971
as Self - Narration (voice)
Stage 2
1971
as Hastings
Manhunt
1970
as Anton
Play for Today
1970
as Dr. Gillespie
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
as Lasar Opie
The Gamblers
1967
as Mickey
ITV Playhouse
1967
as Apeman
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
as Nelson
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Alsemero
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Josef Stalin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as Rod
Theatre 625
1964
as Lasar Opie
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Nelson