Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for leading performances on stage and television, as well as supporting roles in film. 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. Empire magazine awarded him the Empire Icon Award in 2006, and the UK Film Council named him one of the top 10 powerful British film stars in Hollywood in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- 2021 · Blade Runner: Black Lotus as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
- 2019 · Good Omens as Death (voice)
- 2018 · Succession as Logan Roy
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2016 · The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden
- 2016 · Medici: Masters of Florence as Bernardo Guadagni
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · Pixels as Admiral Porter
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 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 · Shetland as Magnus Bain
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as Bill Ball
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
- 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)
- 2008 · The Colour of Magic as Narrator
- 2007 · The Water Horse as Old Angus
- 2007 · Trick 'r Treat as Mr. Kreeg
- 2007 · Zodiac as Melvin Belli
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 2005 · Doctor Who as Sydney Newman
- 2004 · Lost as
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self
- 2004 · The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
- 2004 · Troy as King Agamemnon
- 2004 · Deadwood as Jack Langrishe
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · 25th Hour as James Brogan
- 2002 · Top Gear as Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
- 2002 · The Ring as Richard Morgan
- 2002 · The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott
- 2001 · Richard & Judy as Self
- 2000 · Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Anubis (voice)
- 1997 · Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
- 1996 · Superman: The Animated Series as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Braveheart as Argyle Wallace
- 1993 · Frasier as Harry Moon
- 1993 · Sharpe as Major Hogan
- 1991 · Performance as The Director
- 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
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Michael Steppings
- 1980 · Hammer House of Horror as Chuck
- 1979 · Minder as Frank
- 1979 · Question Time as Self - Panellist
- 1978 · Out as McGrath
- 1972 · Van der Valk as Stefan Szabo
- 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 · Little Wing as Jaan Vari
- 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 · Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live as Presenter
- 2020 · Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
- 2019 · Pretenders as Henry
- 2019 · Remember Me as Shane
- 2019 · The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
- 2017 · Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
- 2017 · Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
- 2016 · The Carer as Sir Michael
- 2014 · The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2014 · Scotland In A Day as
- 2014 · The Great War: The People's Story as Rev. Andrew Clark
- 2013 · Believe as Matt Busby
- 2013 · Bob Servant as Bob Servant
- 2012 · Tooned as The Mechanic
- 2012 · Wide Blue Yonder as Wally
- 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 · Tell-Tale as Van Doren
- 2008 · Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
- 2007 · The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
- 2006 · The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter
- 2005 · Hitler in Colour as Narrator
- 2004 · Murder by Numbers as Self
- 2002 · Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
- 2002 · The Trials of Henry Kissinger as
- 2002 · Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
- 2001 · L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan
- 2001 · Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
- 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
- 2000 · Longitude as Lord Morton
- 1999 · The Minus Man as Doug
- 1998 · Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
- 1994 · Grushko as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
- 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
- 1992 · The Cloning of Joanna May as Carl May
- 1992 · Deceptions as Carlton Heard
- 1989 · The Blasphemers' Banquet as Rev. Wallace (voice)
- 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
- 1987 · Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
- 1985 · Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
- 1982 · A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
- 1978 · The Devil's Crown as Henry II of England
- Future · The Electric State as
- 2023 · Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2022 · Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self
- 2021 · Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
- 2018 · Widdershins as voice
- 2017 · An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
- 2015 · Pacific Warriors as Narrator
- 2013 · The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover
- 2013 · Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal
- 2012 · I Missed My Mother's Funeral as Old Man
- 2009 · Brian Cox's Jute Journey as Self
- 2007 · A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
- 2006 · The Outsiders as Gabriel
- 2006 · Carry on Ken as Self
- 2005 · The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2002 · The Biographer as Michael O'Mara
- 2001 · Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself
- 1997 · Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
- 1997 · Sharpe: The Legend as Hogan
- 1991 · Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison
- 1990 · The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as self
- 1989 · Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self
- 1987 · Acting as
- 1987 · Shoot for the Sun as Dunny
- 1984 · Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
- 1982 · The Privilege as Young Laird
- 1976 · Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
- Future · A Modern Magician as The Voice
- 1975 · In Celebration as Steven Shaw
- Future · That Christmas as Santa (voice)
- 2024 · Skelly as Grandpa
- 2023 · 007: Road to a Million as The Controller
- 2023 · Made of Money with Brian Cox as
- 2023 · Prisoner's Daughter as Max
- 2023 · Quasi as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Independent as Nick Booker
- 2022 · Piers Morgan Uncensored as Self
- 2022 · Ordinary Men: The “Forgotten Holocaust” as Self - English Narrator (voice)
- 2021 · Separation as Rivers
- 2020 · The Bay of Silence as Milton
- 2020 · John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
- 2020 · Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles
- 2019 · The Last Right as Father Reilly
- 2019 · Strange but True as Bill
- 2018 · Super Troopers 2 as John O'Hagen
- 2017 · The Russell Howard Hour as Self
- 2017 · Churchill as Winston Churchill
- 2017 · Brian Cox's Russia as Host
- 2016 · Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self
- 2016 · Morgan as Jim Bryce
- 2016 · War and Peace as Mikhail Kutuzov
- 2015 · Forsaken as James McCurdy
- 2015 · Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
- 2015 · The Slap as Manolis
- 2014 · The Game as Daddy
- 2014 · The Anomaly as Dr. Langham
- 2013 · An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
- 2013 · Anna as Sebastian
- 2013 · RED 2 as Ivan
- 2012 · Addicted to Pleasure as Self - Host
- 2012 · Blood as Lenny Fairburn
- 2012 · The Campaign as Raymond
- 2012 · The Straits as Harry Montebello
- 2011 · Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
- 2011 · Ironclad as Albany
- 2011 · Coriolanus as Menenius
- 2010 · On Expenses as
- 2009 · The Good Heart as Jacques
- 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 · Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
- 2007 · Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice)
- 2006 · Running with Scissors as Dr. Finch
- 2005 · The Ringer as Gary Barker
- 2005 · Match Point as Alec Hewett
- 2005 · Red Eye as Joe Reisert
- 2005 · Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
- 2005 · Japan's War In Colour as Narrator
- 2004 · The Reckoning as Tobias
- 2003 · One Life as
- 2002 · Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
- 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as Judge Freisler
- 1994 · The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · The Negotiator as Charlie King
- 1987 · Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson
- Future · The Parenting as
- 2003 · X2 as William Stryker
- 2003 · Sin as Captain Oakes
- 2002 · Adaptation. as Robert McKee
- 2002 · The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr.
- 2002 · Bug as Cyr
- 2001 · The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil
- 2001 · Super Troopers as John O'Hagen
- 2000 · Nuremberg as Herman Wilhelm Goering
- 2000 · Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin
- 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 · Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
- 1998 · Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
- 1997 · The Boxer as Joe Hamill
- 1996 · The Long Kiss Goodnight as Dr. Nathan Waldman
- 1996 · The Glimmer Man as Mr. Smith
- 1996 · Chain Reaction as Lyman Earl Collier
- 1995 · Rob Roy as Killearn
- 1994 · Royal Deceit as Aethelwine
- 1994 · Iron Will as Angus McTeague
- 1993 · Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
- 1992 · The Big Battalions as Edward Hoyland
- 1992 · Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Macbeth (voice)
- 1992 · The Cutter as
- 1990 · Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan
- 1990 · Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
- 1987 · French & Saunders as King Lear
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Vic
- 1986 · Home Cooking as Vic
- 1974 · The Changeling as Alsemero
- Future · The Glove as
- Future · Wittgenstein's Poker as Bertrand Russell (voice)
- 1986 · Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
- 1985 · The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1983 · King Lear as Burgundy
- 1980 · Thérèse Raquin as Laurent LeClaire
- 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
- 1970 · Play for Today as Dr. Gillespie
- 1970 · Manhunt as Anton
- 1968 · The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
- Future · The Planets as
- 1965 · A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson