Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox CBE 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
- 2024 · The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
- 2023 · 007: Road to a Million as The Controller
- 2019 · Good Omens as Death (voice)
- 2018 · Succession as Logan Roy
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 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
- 2011 · Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
- 2011 · The Veteran as Gerry
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 2004 · Troy as King Agamemnon
- 2004 · Deadwood as Jack Langrishe
- 2003 · Real Time with Bill Maher as Self
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self
- 2002 · The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott
- 2000 · Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Anubis (voice)
- 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
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Kostas Becker (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
- 1988 · Red Dwarf as The King
- 1979 · Minder as Frank
- 1971 · Great Performances as Self - Narration (voice)
- 1970 · Play for Today as Dr. Gillespie
- 1965 · BBC Play of the Month as Alsemero
- Future · Have I Got a Bit More News for You as Himself - Panellist
- 2025 · The Electric State as Popfly (voice)
- 2024 · That Christmas as Santa (voice)
- 2024 · Skelly as Grandpa
- 2022 · Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self
- 2021 · Separation as Rivers
- 2019 · Strange But True as Bill
- 2017 · The Russell Howard Hour as Self
- 2016 · Morgan as Jim Bryce
- 2015 · The Slap as Manolis
- 2013 · Anna as Sebastian
- 2012 · The Campaign as Raymond
- 2012 · The Straits as Harry Montebello
- 2010 · On Expenses as
- 2008 · The Colour of Magic as Narrator
- 2007 · The Water Horse as Old Angus
- 2007 · Trick 'r Treat as Mr. Kreeg
- 2005 · The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell
- 2002 · 25th Hour as James Brogan
- 2002 · The Biographer as Michael O'Mara
- 2002 · The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr.
- 2001 · L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan
- 2001 · Super Troopers as John O'Hagen
- 2000 · Nuremberg as Herman Wilhelm Goering
- 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
- 1992 · Macbeth as Macbeth
- 1992 · The Lost Language of Cranes as Owen Benjamin
- 1990 · Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
- 1988 · Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves
- 1987 · Shoot for the Sun as Dunny
- 1984 · Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
- 1980 · Hammer House of Horror as Chuck
- 1972 · Van der Valk as Stefan Szabo
- Future · Super Troopers 3 as Capt. John O’Hagan
- 2023 · Prisoner's Daughter as Max
- 2023 · Quasi as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg as Self – Actor
- 2021 · Blade Runner: Black Lotus as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
- 2020 · The Bay of Silence as Milton
- 2020 · Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles
- 2020 · Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
- 2018 · Super Troopers 2 as John O'Hagen
- 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 · Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self
- 2016 · War and Peace as Mikhail Kutuzov
- 2015 · Forsaken as James McCurdy
- 2015 · Pacific Warriors as Narrator
- 2015 · Pixels as Admiral Porter
- 2014 · The Game as Daddy
- 2014 · The Anomaly as Dr. Langham
- 2014 · Penny Dreadful as Jared Talbot
- 2013 · Believe as Matt Busby
- 2013 · RED 2 as Ivan
- 2013 · The Last Leg as Self
- 2012 · Wide Blue Yonder as Wally
- 2011 · Celebrity Antiques Road Trip as Self - Participant
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self
- 2011 · The Jonathan Ross Show as Self - Guest
- 2011 · Ironclad as Albany
- 2011 · Coriolanus as Menenius
- 2010 · RED as Ivan Simanov
- 2009 · Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
- 2009 · Tell-Tale as Van Doren
- 2008 · Red as Avery Ludlow
- 2008 · Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
- 2007 · Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
- 2007 · The Bourne Ultimatum as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2007 · Zodiac as Melvin Belli
- 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
- 2004 · The Tony Danza Show as Self
- 2004 · The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
- 2003 · The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self
- 2002 · Adaptation. as Robert McKee
- 2002 · The Ring as Richard Morgan
- 2001 · The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil
- 2001 · Richard & Judy as Self
- 2000 · A Shot at Glory as Martin Smith
- 2000 · Longitude as Lord Morton
- 1999 · The Corruptor as Sean Wallace
- 1998 · Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
- 1998 · Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
- 1997 · The Boxer as Joe Hamill
- 1997 · Sharpe: The Legend as Hogan
- 1997 · Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
- 1993 · Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
- 1993 · Sharpe as Major Hogan
- 1992 · Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Macbeth (voice)
- 1991 · Performance as The Director
- 1990 · Perfect Scoundrels as Father Amedy
- 1989 · Murder on the Moon as Voronov
- 1987 · French & Saunders as King Lear
- 1987 · Inspector Morse as Michael Steppings
- 1979 · Question Time as Self - Panellist
- 1974 · Playhouse as Dalhousie
- Future · A Modern Magician as The Voice
- 2023 · Mending the Line as Ike Fletcher
- 2022 · Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self
- 2021 · Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 · The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
- 2016 · The Carer as Sir Michael
- 2012 · Blood as Lenny Fairburn
- 2012 · A Touch of Cloth as Bill Ball
- 2011 · Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
- 2011 · The Sinking of the Laconia as Captain Sharp
- 2009 · The Day of the Triffids as Dennis Masen
- 2009 · The Take as Ozzy
- 2009 · Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword as Green Dragon (voice)
- 2008 · The Escapist as Frank Perry
- 2007 · Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice)
- 2004 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
- 2003 · One Life as
- 2003 · Sin as Captain Oakes
- 2000 · Saltwater as George Beneventi
- 2000 · The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel
- 2000 · The Making of 'Rushmore' as Self
- 2000 · Longitude as Lord Morton
- 1999 · For Love of the Game as Gary Wheeler
- 1999 · The Minus Man as Doug
- 1998 · Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
- 1994 · The Negotiator as Charlie King
- 1991 · Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison
- 1990 · Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan
- 1988 · The Modern World: Ten Great Writers as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
- 1985 · Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
- 1982 · A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
- 1977 · Target as Billy Voss
- 1970 · Manhunt as Anton
- Future · Glenrothan as Sandy
- 1975 · In Celebration as Steven Shaw
- 1971 · Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
- Future · The Glove as
- 2025 · VE Day 80 as Self
- 2024 · Unsinkable as Robert Dodds
- 2024 · Little Wing as Jaan Vari
- 2023 · Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius as Self
- 2022 · Bonnie as Self
- 2022 · The Independent as Nick Booker
- 2022 · Piers Morgan Uncensored as Self
- 2019 · The Last Right as Father Reilly
- 2019 · Pretenders as Henry
- 2019 · Remember Me as Shane
- 2018 · Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
- 2014 · The Great War: The People's Story as Rev. Andrew Clark
- 2013 · An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
- 2012 · Tooned as The Mechanic
- 2011 · The Key Man as Irving
- 2009 · The Good Heart as Jacques
- 2006 · The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter
- 2006 · Carry On Ken as Self
- 2004 · Murder by Numbers as Self
- 2004 · The Reckoning as Tobias
- 2003 · The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' as
- 2002 · The Trials of Henry Kissinger as
- 2000 · Complicity as Inspector McDunn
- 1998 · Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
- 1997 · Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
- 1994 · Prince of Jutland as Aethelwine
- 1994 · Iron Will as Angus McTeague
- 1992 · Deceptions as Carlton Heard
- 1990 · The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as self
- 1986 · Unnatural Causes as Vic
- 1980 · Therese Raquin as Laurent
- 1978 · Out as McGrath
- Future · Old Pals as Jimmy
- Future · The Planets as
- 2025 · The Marbles as Self
- 2023 · Made of Money with Brian Cox as
- 2023 · Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Narrator (voice)
- 2023 · An Interview with Brian Cox as Himself
- 2022 · Ooh the Banter! as Self
- 2022 · Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live as Presenter
- 2020 · John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
- 2018 · Widdershins as voice
- 2017 · An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
- 2017 · Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
- 2017 · Brian Cox's Russia as Host
- 2017 · Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
- 2016 · Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self
- 2015 · Killing Thyme as Norman
- 2015 · Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
- 2014 · The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
- 2014 · Scotland In A Day as
- 2013 · The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover
- 2013 · Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal
- 2013 · Bob Servant as Bob Servant
- 2012 · Addicted to Pleasure as Self - Host
- 2012 · I Missed My Mother's Funeral as Old Man
- 2011 · Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice)
- 2010 · As Good As Dead as Reverend Kalahan
- 2009 · Brian Cox's Jute Journey as Self
- 2007 · The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
- 2007 · A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
- 2006 · The Outsiders as Gabriel
- 2005 · Hitler in Colour as Narrator
- 2005 · Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
- 2005 · Japan's War in Colour as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · X2 as William Stryker
- 2002 · Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
- 2002 · Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch as Narrator
- 2002 · Bug as Cyr
- 2002 · Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
- 2002 · Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
- 2001 · Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
- 2001 · Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself
- 2000 · Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin
- 1999 · The History of the British Police Force as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 · Witness Against Hitler as Judge Freisler
- 1994 · The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
- 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 Big Battalions as Edward Hoyland
- 1992 · The Cutter as
- 1992 · The Cloning of Joanna May as Carl May
- 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
- 1987 · Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
- 1986 · Home Cooking as Vic
- 1986 · Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
- 1985 · The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1983 · King Lear as Burgundy
- 1982 · The Privilege as Young Laird
- 1981 · House on the Hill as Leon Douglas
- 1980 · Dalhousie's Luck as Dalhousie
- 1978 · The Devil's Crown as Henry II
- 1976 · Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
- 1974 · The Changeling as Alsemero
- 1968 · The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
- 1967 · The Gamblers as Mickey
- 1965 · A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson
- Future · Wittgenstein's Poker as Bertrand Russell (voice)