BRIAN COX

Brian Cox
Brian Cox
Gender: Male
Known for: Acting
Birthday: June 1, 1946
Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland, UK

Biography

Brian Denis Cox (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.

Filmography

Starring

2025·
VE Day 80
Self
2025·
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
2025·
AMR: Dying to Change the World
AMR
2025·
The Marbles
Self
2025·
Glenrothan
Sandy
2024·
Unsinkable
Robert Dodds
2023·
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self
2023·
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023·
007: Road to a Million
The Controller
2022·
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
2022·
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Self
2022·
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Presenter
2021·
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
2021·
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Narrator (voice)
2021·
Separation
Rivers
2020·
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
John Rebus
2020·
Lawrence After Arabia
Father (Voice)
2020·
The Bay of Silence
Milton
2020·
Last Moment of Clarity
Gilles
2019·
Good Omens
Death (voice)
2019·
The Last Right
Father Reilly
2019·
Remember Me
Shane
2019·
Strange But True
Bill
2018·
Succession
Logan Roy
2018·
Widdershins
voice
2018·
Kubrick by Candlelight
The Narrator
2018·
The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil
2018·
Super Troopers 2
John O'Hagen
2017·
Brian Cox's Russia
Host
2017·
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self
2016·
War and Peace
Mikhail Kutuzov
2015·
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015·
The Slap
Manolis
2014·
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
2014·
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014·
The Great War: The People's Story
Rev. Andrew Clark
2014·
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014·
Penny Dreadful
Jared Talbot
2014·
The Game
Daddy
2013·
The Last Leg
Self
2013·
Bob Servant
Bob Servant
2013·
Shetland
Magnus Bain
2012·
Tooned
The Mechanic
2012·
A Touch of Cloth
Bill Ball
2012·
The Straits
Harry Montebello
2011·
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self - Guest, Self
TBA·
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Himself - Panellist
2017·
The Russell Howard Hour
Self
2016·
Medici: Masters of Florence
Bernardo Guadagni
2014·
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
God
2012·
Addicted to Pleasure
Self - Host
2011·
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
2011·
The Sinking of the Laconia
Captain Sharp
2009·
The Day of the Triffids
Dennis Masen
2008·
The Colour of Magic
Narrator
2007·
The Graham Norton Show
Self
2003·
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2002·
Top Gear
Self
2000·
Longitude
Lord Morton, Lord Morton
2000·
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Anubis (voice)
1996·
The Daily Show
Self
1993·
Frasier
Harry Moon
1993·
Sharpe
Major Hogan
1992·
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Macbeth (voice)
1991·
Performance
The Director
1990·
Have I Got News for You
Self
1990·
Perfect Scoundrels
Father Amedy
1989·
The Simpsons
Kostas Becker (voice)
1988·
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Henrik Ibsen (voice)
1988·
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
1986·
Unnatural Causes
Vic
1981·
House on the Hill
Leon Douglas
1980·
Therese Raquin
Laurent
1980·
Hammer House of Horror
Chuck
1978·
The Devil's Crown
Henry II
1978·
Out
McGrath
1977·
Target
Billy Voss
1974·
Churchill's People
William Wallace
1974·
Playhouse
Dalhousie
1971·
Great Performances
Self - Narration (voice)
1970·
Play for Today
Dr. Gillespie
1970·
Manhunt
Anton
1967·
The Gamblers
Mickey
1965·
BBC Play of the Month
Alsemero
1964·
Theatre 625
Lasar Opie
TBA·
Super Troopers 3
Capt. John O’Hagan
TBA·
Old Pals
Jimmy
2023·
Prisoner's Daughter
Max
2023·
Mending the Line
Ike Fletcher
2017·
An Evening with Brian Cox
Himself
2017·
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
Conrad / Crunch (voice)
2016·
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
2015·
Killing Thyme
Norman
2015·
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2015·
Pacific Warriors
Narrator
2012·
All at Sea
Wally
2009·
The Take
Ozzy
2007·
The Bourne Ultimatum
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006·
The One Show
Self - Guest
2006·
Carry On Ken
Self
2006·
The Outsiders
Gabriel
2005·
The Colbert Report
2004·
The Tony Danza Show
Self
2004·
Deadwood
Jack Langrishe
2004·
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
2003·
One Life
2003·
Sin
Captain Oakes
2002·
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Narrator
2002·
The Biographer
Michael O'Mara
2002·
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
Narrator
2001·
Richard & Judy
Self
2000·
Nuremberg
Herman Wilhelm Goering
2000·
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
2000·
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Dr. Morel
1999·
The History of the British Police Force
Narrator (voice)
1998·
Merchants of Venus
Uncle Vladimir
1996·
Superman: The Animated Series
Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
1994·
The Negotiator
Charlie King
1994·
Grushko
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1992·
The Big Battalions
Edward Hoyland
1992·
Macbeth
Macbeth
1990·
Secret Weapon
Andrew Neil
1988·
Red Dwarf
The King
1987·
Acting
1987·
Inspector Morse
Michael Steppings
1987·
French & Saunders
King Lear
1987·
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Narrator
1987·
Rat in the Skull
Detective Inspector Nelson
1986·
Home Cooking
Vic
1985·
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Johann Sebastian Bach
1985·
Florence Nightingale
Dr. McGregor
1982·
A Cotswold Death
Dr. Gillespie
1980·
Dalhousie's Luck
Dalhousie
1979·
Minder
Frank
1979·
Question Time
Self - Panellist
1976·
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
George Simpson
1972·
Van der Valk
Stefan Szabo
1965·
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Nelson
TBA·
Wittgenstein's Poker
Bertrand Russell (voice)
2024·
Skelly
Grandpa
TBA·
The Planets
2025·
The Parenting
Frank
2024·
That Christmas
Santa (voice)
2023·
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Narrator (voice)
2023·
Quasi
Narrator (voice)
2023·
An Interview with Brian Cox
Himself
2022·
Ooh the Banter!
Self
2022·
Bonnie
Self
2022·
The Independent
Nick Booker
2019·
Pretenders
Henry
2017·
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Narrator
2017·
Churchill
Winston Churchill
2016·
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tommy Tilden
2016·
Morgan
Jim Bryce
2016·
The Carer
Sir Michael
2015·
Forsaken
James McCurdy
2015·
Pixels
Admiral Porter
2014·
Scotland In A Day
2013·
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
2012·
The Campaign
Raymond
2011·
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Glover
2011·
Exit Humanity
Malcolm Young (voice)
2011·
The Key Man
Irving
2011·
Coriolanus
Menenius
2011·
The Veteran
Gerry
2011·
Ironclad
Albany
2010·
RED
Ivan Simanov
2010·
As Good As Dead
Reverend Kalahan
2009·
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Self
2009·
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Green Dragon (voice)
2009·
Tell-Tale
Van Doren
2009·
The Good Heart
Jacques
2009·
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2008·
Agent Crush
Spanners (voice)
2008·
The Escapist
Frank Perry
2008·
Red
Avery Ludlow
2007·
Shoot on Sight
Daniel Tennant
2007·
A Woman in Winter
Dr. Hunt
2007·
The Water Horse
Old Angus
2007·
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Drosselmeyer
2007·
Battle for Terra
General Hemmer (voice)
2007·
Trick 'r Treat
Mr. Kreeg
2007·
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
2006·
The Flying Scotsman
Douglas Baxter
2006·
Running with Scissors
Dr. Finch
2005·
Blue/Orange
Dr. Robert Smith
2005·
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Bell
2005·
Japan's War in Colour
Self - Narrator (voice)
2005·
The Ringer
Gary Barker
2005·
Red Eye
Joe Reisert
2004·
The Reckoning
Tobias
2004·
The Bourne Supremacy
Ward Abbott
2004·
Troy
King Agamemnon
2003·
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
2003·
X2
William Stryker
2002·
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Narrator
2002·
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Narrator
2002·
The Rookie
Jim Morris Sr.
2002·
Bug
Cyr
2002·
Adaptation.
Robert McKee
2002·
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
2002·
25th Hour
James Brogan
2002·
The Ring
Richard Morgan
2001·
The Affair of the Necklace
Minister Breteuil
2001·
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
2001·
Super Troopers
John O'Hagen
2000·
A Shot at Glory
Martin Smith
2000·
Saltwater
George Beneventi
2000·
Mad About Mambo
Sidney McLoughlin
2000·
Complicity
Inspector McDunn
1999·
For Love of the Game
Gary Wheeler
1999·
The Corruptor
Sean Wallace
1999·
The Minus Man
Doug
1998·
Desperate Measures
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1998·
Rushmore
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1998·
Poodle Springs
Clayton Blackstone
1997·
Food for Ravens
Aneurin Bevan
1997·
Sharpe: The Legend
Hogan
1997·
The Boxer
Joe Hamill
1997·
Kiss the Girls
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
1996·
The Glimmer Man
Mr. Smith
1996·
Chain Reaction
Lyman Earl Collier
1996·
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dr. Nathan Waldman
1995·
Rob Roy
Killearn
1995·
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
1994·
Prince of Jutland
Aethelwine
1994·
The Maltese Double Cross
Narrator (voice)
1994·
Iron Will
Angus McTeague
1993·
Sharpe's Rifles
Major Michael Hogan
1993·
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
1992·
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
1991·
Red Fox
Geoffrey Harrison
1990·
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
self
1990·
Hidden Agenda
Peter Kerrigan
1989·
Murder on the Moon
Voronov
1989·
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Rev. Wallace (voice)
1989·
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Self
1988·
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Jack Purves
TBA·
The Glove
TBA·
A Modern Magician
The Voice
2025·
The Electric State
Popfly (voice)
2024·
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2024·
Little Wing
Jaan Vari
2022·
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Self
2022·
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
2016·
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
2014·
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014·
The Anomaly
Dr. Langham
2013·
RED 2
Ivan
2013·
Blumenthal
Harold Blumenthal
2013·
Believe
Matt Busby
2013·
Anna
Sebastian
2013·
The Curse of Edgar
Edgar Hoover
2013·
An Adventure in Space and Time
Sydney Newman
2012·
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Old Man
2012·
Blood
Lenny Fairburn
2011·
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
2010·
On Expenses
2005·
Match Point
Alec Hewett
2005·
Hitler in Colour
Narrator
2004·
Murder by Numbers
Self
2003·
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
2002·
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2001·
Inside 'Manhunter'
Himself
2001·
Strictly Sinatra
Chisolm
1996·
Witness Against Hitler
Judge Freisler
1992·
Deceptions
Carlton Heard
1992·
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Director
1992·
The Cutter
1992·
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May
1988·
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Voiceover Narrator
1987·
Shoot for the Sun
Dunny
1986·
Manhunter
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1984·
Pope John Paul II
Father Góra
1983·
King Lear
Burgundy
1982·
The Privilege
Young Laird
1975·
In Celebration
Steven Shaw
1974·
The Changeling
Alsemero
1971·
Nicholas and Alexandra
Trotsky
1968·
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lasar Opie

Production

2025·
Glenrothan
Producer, Director
2025·
Seven Jewish Children
Executive Producer
2024·
Little Wing
Executive Producer
2008·
Red
Associate Producer
2008·
The Escapist
Executive Producer
1997·
Oz
Director