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Brian Cox
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. 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.
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
March 12th, 2025 | The Parenting | Frank | 6 | |
March 7th, 2025 | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 6.5 | |
TBD | A Modern Magician | The Voice | TBD | |
April 17th, 2026 | Glenrothan | Sandy | 6 | |
November 27th, 2024 | That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 7.2 | |
May 7th, 2024 | Skelly | Grandpa | 6.2 | |
September 5th, 2023 | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
December 31st, 2022 | Ooh the Banter! | Self | TBD | |
November 12th, 2022 | Bonnie | Self | 5.3 | |
October 17th, 2019 | Strange but True | Bill | 6 | |
September 27th, 2019 | Pretenders | Henry | 5.2 | |
April 19th, 2018 | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 5.9 | |
May 25th, 2017 | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 6.2 | |
February 18th, 2017 | Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation | Narrator | TBD | |
December 23rd, 2016 | Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC | Self | TBD | |
December 21st, 2016 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 6.8 | |
September 1st, 2016 | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 5.8 | |
August 5th, 2016 | The Carer | Sir Michael | 6.6 | |
September 16th, 2015 | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 6.2 | |
September 10th, 2015 | Pacific Warriors | Narrator | 6.8 | |
July 16th, 2015 | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 5.8 | |
December 1st, 2014 | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 7 | |
September 18th, 2014 | Scotland In A Day | TBD | TBD | |
June 19th, 2014 | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 5 | |
October 16th, 2011 | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 5.2 | |
September 10th, 2011 | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 5.6 | |
January 1st, 2008 | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 4.8 | |
December 15th, 2007 | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 6.2 | |
September 8th, 2005 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 6.6 | |
February 23rd, 2005 | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 6.7 | |
March 16th, 2004 | Murder by Numbers | Self | 7 | |
November 25th, 2003 | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 | Self | 7 | |
January 1st, 2003 | Sin | Captain Oakes | 4.9 | |
September 25th, 2002 | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | Self | 6.9 | |
February 12th, 2002 | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 7 | |
February 5th, 2002 | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 7.2 | |
May 3rd, 2000 | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 5.7 | |
September 17th, 1999 | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 6.4 | |
March 1st, 1998 | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 6.3 | |
November 11th, 1997 | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 7 | |
October 13th, 1997 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 5.7 | |
May 1st, 1990 | The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' | self | TBD | |
May 9th, 1989 | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 3.8 | |
March 16th, 1987 | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | TBD | |
TBD | The Glove | TBD | TBD | |
May 15th, 1988 | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 6 | |
TBD | The Planets | TBD | TBD | |
September 29th, 2000 | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 7.1 | |
TBD | Wittgenstein's Poker | Bertrand Russell (voice) | TBD | |
August 6th, 2026 | Super Troopers 3 | Capt. John O’Hagan | TBD | |
June 21st, 2026 | The Sunrise File | Oded Ailam (voice) | TBD | |
November 7th, 2025 | The Marbles | Self - Interviewee | TBD | |
September 22nd, 2025 | Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction | Gustaf Wallenberg (voice) | TBD | |
March 11th, 2025 | AMR: Dying to Change the World | AMR | TBD | |
December 5th, 2024 | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 6.5 | |
March 13th, 2024 | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 6.6 | |
June 30th, 2023 | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 6.2 | |
June 9th, 2023 | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 6.6 | |
April 20th, 2023 | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 5.1 | |
April 11th, 2023 | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | TBD | |
November 26th, 2022 | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 7.8 | |
November 2nd, 2022 | The Independent | Nick Booker | 6.6 | |
July 3rd, 2022 | Ukraine: Answering the Call | Self | TBD | |
April 30th, 2021 | Separation | Rivers | 5.7 | |
April 23rd, 2021 | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 5 | |
August 20th, 2020 | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 4.4 | |
May 27th, 2020 | John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus | TBD | |
May 19th, 2020 | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 5.2 | |
May 19th, 2020 | Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) | 4.2 | |
December 6th, 2019 | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 6.1 | |
August 2nd, 2019 | Remember Me | Shane | 6.3 | |
November 23rd, 2018 | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 7 | |
June 27th, 2018 | Widdershins | voice | 7.5 | |
April 12th, 2018 | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 6.3 | |
July 26th, 2017 | An Evening with Brian Cox | Himself | TBD | |
May 27th, 2017 | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad / Crunch (voice) | 8.3 | |
June 13th, 2016 | Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light | Self | TBD | |
November 17th, 2015 | Killing Thyme | Norman | TBD | |
July 1st, 2015 | Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) | 6.7 | |
December 18th, 2013 | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 7.8 | |
November 21st, 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 7.7 | |
October 27th, 2013 | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 7.2 | |
October 13th, 2013 | Anna | Sebastian | 6.5 | |
October 4th, 2013 | Believe | Matt Busby | 6.1 | |
August 3rd, 2013 | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 4 | |
July 18th, 2013 | RED 2 | Ivan | 6.5 | |
October 9th, 2012 | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 5.9 | |
August 9th, 2012 | The Campaign | Raymond | 5.8 | |
May 25th, 2012 | All at Sea | Wally | 4.5 | |
January 1st, 2012 | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | TBD | |
August 3rd, 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 7.3 | |
April 29th, 2011 | The Veteran | Gerry | 5.8 | |
March 3rd, 2011 | Ironclad | Albany | 6.1 | |
February 18th, 2011 | The Key Man | Irving | 3.7 | |
February 14th, 2011 | Coriolanus | Menenius | 5.8 | |
October 13th, 2010 | RED | Ivan Simanov | 6.7 | |
February 23rd, 2010 | On Expenses | TBD | TBD | |
January 25th, 2010 | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 5 | |
October 14th, 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 7.8 | |
October 5th, 2009 | Brian Cox's Jute Journey | Self | TBD | |
September 11th, 2009 | The Good Heart | Jacques | 6.4 | |
April 24th, 2009 | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 5.3 | |
April 7th, 2009 | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 7.7 | |
August 8th, 2008 | Red | Avery Ludlow | 6.3 | |
June 20th, 2008 | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 6.2 | |
December 25th, 2007 | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 6.5 | |
December 23rd, 2007 | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 5.3 | |
December 9th, 2007 | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 7 | |
September 6th, 2007 | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 6.2 | |
August 3rd, 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 7.4 | |
April 9th, 2007 | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 7.5 | |
March 2nd, 2007 | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 7.5 | |
October 27th, 2006 | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 5.8 | |
October 3rd, 2006 | The Outsiders | Gabriel | 4 | |
August 16th, 2006 | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 6.5 | |
January 1st, 2006 | Carry On Ken | Self | TBD | |
December 23rd, 2005 | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 5.7 | |
October 26th, 2005 | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 7.4 | |
August 10th, 2005 | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 6.4 | |
April 30th, 2005 | Hitler in Colour | Narrator | 7.9 | |
January 17th, 2005 | Japan's War in Colour | Self - Narrator (voice) | 8 | |
December 31st, 2004 | Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? | Self | TBD | |
September 4th, 2004 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 7.2 | |
July 23rd, 2004 | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 7.3 | |
May 13th, 2004 | Troy | King Agamemnon | 7.2 | |
February 26th, 2004 | The Reckoning | Tobias | 6.4 | |
May 20th, 2003 | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 7.3 | |
April 27th, 2003 | X2 | William Stryker | 7 | |
December 19th, 2002 | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 7.3 | |
December 6th, 2002 | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 7.3 | |
November 19th, 2002 | Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World | Narrator | 7 | |
October 18th, 2002 | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 6.7 | |
September 1st, 2002 | The Biographer | Michael O'Mara | 9 | |
June 14th, 2002 | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 7.5 | |
April 1st, 2002 | Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch | Narrator | 8 | |
March 25th, 2002 | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 6.8 | |
February 28th, 2002 | Bug | Cyr | 7.3 | |
November 30th, 2001 | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 5.6 | |
September 7th, 2001 | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 6.8 | |
June 29th, 2001 | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 5 | |
February 15th, 2001 | Super Troopers | Captain O'Hagen | 6.6 | |
February 13th, 2001 | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 7 | |
July 16th, 2000 | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | TBD | |
May 6th, 2000 | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 5.8 | |
April 4th, 2000 | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 5.2 | |
March 16th, 2000 | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 8 | |
January 25th, 2000 | The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 6.3 | |
January 2nd, 2000 | Longitude | Lord Morton | 7.4 | |
September 27th, 1999 | The History of the British Police Force | Narrator (voice) | TBD | |
September 24th, 1999 | The Minus Man | Doug | 5.5 | |
March 12th, 1999 | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 6.1 | |
December 11th, 1998 | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 7.4 | |
July 25th, 1998 | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 5.5 | |
July 12th, 1998 | Battle of the Clans | Narrator | TBD | |
January 30th, 1998 | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 6 | |
December 31st, 1997 | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 6.7 | |
September 29th, 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham PD | 6.5 | |
October 11th, 1996 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 6.6 | |
October 4th, 1996 | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 5.4 | |
August 2nd, 1996 | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 5.8 | |
March 10th, 1996 | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 8 | |
May 24th, 1995 | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 7.9 | |
April 13th, 1995 | Rob Roy | Killearn | 6.7 | |
November 16th, 1994 | The Maltese Double Cross | Narrator (voice) | 8 | |
May 31st, 1994 | The Negotiator | Charlie King | 9 | |
March 24th, 1994 | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 7.5 | |
February 23rd, 1994 | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 5.4 | |
January 14th, 1994 | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 6.7 | |
May 12th, 1993 | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 7.2 | |
May 5th, 1993 | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 6.8 | |
December 12th, 1992 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 6 | |
August 10th, 1992 | The Cutter | TBD | TBD | |
February 9th, 1992 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 5.9 | |
January 16th, 1992 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 7 | |
January 1st, 1992 | Deceptions | Carlton Heard | 9 | |
December 8th, 1991 | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 6 | |
November 21st, 1990 | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 7 | |
March 19th, 1990 | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 7.5 | |
December 7th, 1989 | Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy | Self | TBD | |
July 31st, 1989 | The Blasphemers' Banquet | Rev. Wallace (voice) | TBD | |
September 23rd, 1988 | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 7.6 | |
January 1st, 1987 | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | TBD | |
January 1st, 1987 | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator | TBD | |
November 8th, 1986 | Home Cooking | Vic | TBD | |
August 14th, 1986 | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 7 | |
April 7th, 1985 | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 6 | |
April 7th, 1985 | The Cantor of St Thomas's | Johann Sebastian Bach | 7 | |
April 22nd, 1984 | Pope John Paul II | Father Góra | 7.5 | |
April 3rd, 1983 | King Lear | Burgundy | 6.7 | |
January 12th, 1982 | A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie | 7 | |
January 1st, 1982 | The Privilege | Young Laird | 7 | |
August 3rd, 1980 | Dalhousie's Luck | Dalhousie | TBD | |
February 24th, 1976 | Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | George Simpson | 7 | |
March 17th, 1975 | In Celebration | Steven Shaw | 5.2 | |
January 20th, 1974 | The Changeling | Alsemero | 8.5 | |
November 29th, 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 7 | |
July 29th, 1968 | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 5.2 | |
July 7th, 1965 | A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson | 7 | |
TBD | Old Pals | Jimmy | TBD |