Credits

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