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