Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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 Electric State as Popfly (voice)
- 2024 · The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
- 2023 · Prisoner's Daughter as Max
- 2023 · Mending the Line as Ike Fletcher
- 2023 · Quasi as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Independent as Nick Booker
- 2022 · Piers Morgan Uncensored as Self
- 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
- 2018 · The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
- 2017 · The Russell Howard Hour as Self
- 2017 · Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
- 2017 · Churchill as Winston Churchill
- 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 · 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 · An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
- 2013 · Anna as Sebastian
- 2013 · Shetland as Magnus Bain
- 2012 · Blood as Lenny Fairburn
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as Bill Ball
- 2012 · The Straits as Harry Montebello
- 2011 · Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice)
- 2011 · Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
- 2011 · The Veteran as Gerry
- 2011 · The Sinking of the Laconia as Captain Sharp
- 2009 · The Day of the Triffids as Dennis Masen
- 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
- 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 · 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 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
- 1999 · The Minus Man as Doug
- 1998 · Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
- 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
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1995 · Braveheart as Argyle Wallace
- 1995 · Rob Roy as Killearn
- 1994 · Iron Will as Angus McTeague
- 1993 · Frasier as Harry Moon
- 1992 · Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Macbeth (voice)
- 1991 · Performance as The Director
- 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 · Inspector Morse as Michael Steppings
- 1980 · Hammer House of Horror as Chuck
- 1979 · Minder as Frank
- 1978 · Out as McGrath
- 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self
- 1970 · Play for Today as Dr. Gillespie
- Future · Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Himself - Panellist
- 2024 · That Christmas as Santa (voice)
- 2024 · Little Wing as Jaan Vari
- 2023 · 007: Road to a Million as The Controller
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2019 · The Last Right as Father Reilly
- 2019 · Pretenders as Henry
- 2016 · The Carer as Sir Michael
- 2014 · The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2013 · Believe as Matt Busby
- 2013 · Bob Servant as Bob Servant
- 2012 · Tooned as The Mechanic
- 2011 · Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
- 2011 · The Key Man as Irving
- 2010 · As Good As Dead as Reverend Kalahan
- 2009 · Tell-Tale as Van Doren
- 2005 · Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2003 · One Life as
- 2003 · Sin as Captain Oakes
- 2002 · The Trials of Henry Kissinger as
- 2002 · Bug as Cyr
- 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
- 1998 · Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
- 1998 · Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
- 1994 · Royal Deceit as Aethelwine
- 1993 · Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
- 1993 · Sharpe's Rifles 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
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Vic
- Future · Amol Rajan Interviews as Self - Interviewed Guest
- 2024 · Unsinkable as Robert Dodds
- 2023 · Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius as Self
- 2023 · Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Narrator (voice)
- 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
- 2021 · Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
- 2018 · Widdershins as voice
- 2017 · Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
- 2015 · Pacific Warriors as Narrator
- 2015 · Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
- 2012 · Wide Blue Yonder as Wally
- 2008 · Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
- 2008 · Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
- 2007 · The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
- 2004 · Murder by Numbers as Self
- 2003 · X2 as William Stryker
- 2001 · Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself
- 2000 · The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel
- 2000 · Longitude as Lord Morton
- 1997 · Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
- 1992 · The Big Battalions as Edward Hoyland
- 1988 · Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves
- 1987 · Acting as
- 1985 · Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
- 1984 · Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
- 1983 · King Lear as Burgundy
- 1980 · Thérèse Raquin as Laurent LeClaire
- 1978 · The Devil's Crown as Henry II of England
- Future · The Parenting as
- 1976 · Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
- 1975 · In Celebration as Steven Shaw
- 1974 · The Changeling as Alsemero
- Future · A Modern Magician as The Voice
- 2024 · Skelly as Grandpa
- 2022 · Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live as Presenter
- 2022 · Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self
- 2018 · Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
- 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 · A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
- 2006 · Carry on Ken as Self
- 2003 · The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 as
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2002 · Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
- 2002 · The Biographer as Michael O'Mara
- 2002 · Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
- 2001 · Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
- 1997 · Sharpe: The Legend as Hogan
- 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as Judge Freisler
- 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
- 1990 · Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
- 1989 · Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self
- 1989 · Murder on the Moon as Voronov
- 1988 · Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Voiceover Narrator
- 1987 · Shoot for the Sun as Dunny
- 1987 · Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
- 1987 · Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson
- 1968 · The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
- Future · Wittgenstein's Poker as Bertrand Russell (voice)
- 1982 · A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
- Future · The Glove as
- 2023 · Made of Money with Brian Cox as
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- 2021 · Blade Runner: Black Lotus as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
- 2021 · Separation as Rivers
- 2020 · John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
- 2019 · Good Omens as Death (voice)
- 2017 · Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
- 2017 · An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
- 2017 · Brian Cox's Russia as Host
- 2016 · Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self
- 2016 · The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden
- 2016 · Medici: Masters of Florence as Bernardo Guadagni
- 2016 · War and Peace as Mikhail Kutuzov
- 2014 · Scotland In A Day as
- 2013 · Her as Alan Watts (voice)
- 2013 · RED 2 as Ivan
- 2012 · Addicted to Pleasure as Self - Host
- 2012 · The Campaign as Raymond
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · Ironclad as Albany
- 2011 · Coriolanus as Menenius
- 2010 · RED as Ivan Simanov
- 2009 · Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
- 2009 · Brian Cox's Jute Journey as Self
- 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
- 2006 · The Outsiders as Gabriel
- 2005 · Match Point as Alec Hewett
- 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
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self
- 2004 · The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
- 2002 · The Ring as Richard Morgan
- 2002 · Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
- 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)
- 1994 · The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
- 1994 · The Negotiator as Charlie King
- 1993 · Sharpe as Major Hogan
- 1992 · The Cutter as
- 1992 · Deceptions as Carlton Heard
- 1990 · The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as self
- 1989 · The Blasphemers' Banquet as Rev. Wallace (voice)
- 1987 · French & Saunders as King Lear
- 1986 · Home Cooking as Vic
- 1986 · Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
- 1985 · The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1982 · The Privilege as Young Laird
- 1965 · A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson
- Future · Glenrothan as Sandy
- 1980 · Dalhousie's Luck as Dalhousie
- 1979 · Question Time as Self - Panellist
- 1972 · Van der Valk as Stefan Szabo
- 1970 · Manhunt as Anton
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Alsemero
- Future · The Planets as