Brian Cox
Birthday
1946/06/01 (78 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Also know as
Brian Denis Cox, Brian Cox CBE
Biography
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 Roya...Read more
Acting
(1995) Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
(2002) The Ring
as Richard Morgan
(2002) 25th Hour
as James Brogan
(2004) Troy
as King Agamemnon
(1998) Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
(2009) Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
(2007) Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
(2002) The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
(2004) The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
(2022) The Independent
as Nick Booker
(2002) Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
(2009) The Good Heart
as Jacques
(1998) Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
(1996) The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
(1999) The Minus Man
as Doug
(2007) Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
(2006) Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
(1986) Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
(2005) Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
(1995) Rob Roy
as Killearn
(1994) Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
(2000) Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
(1996) Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
(2002) Bug
as Cyr
(1997) Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
(1999) The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
(1998) Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
(2004) The Reckoning
as Tobias
(2005) The Ringer
as Gary Barker
(2008) Red
as Avery Ludlow
(2009) Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
(1996) The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
(2010) As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan
(2003) X2
as William Stryker
(2002) The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
(2008) The Escapist
as Frank Perry
(2000) Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
(2006) The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
(2023) An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
(1989) Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
(2011) Ironclad
as Albany
(1971) Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
(2009) Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
(2007) Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
(2010) RED
as Ivan Simanov
(1997) The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
(2023) Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
(1990) Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
(1983) King Lear
as Burgundy
(2001) Super Troopers
as John O'Hagen
(2005) Japan's War In Colour
as Narrator
(1994) The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
(2001) L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
(1994) Royal Deceit
as Aethelwine
(2000) Longitude
as Lord Morton
(1993) Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
(2001) The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
(1993) Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
(2011) The Veteran
as Gerry
(2007) The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
(2007) The Water Horse
as Old Angus
(1988) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
(1992) The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
(2009) Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
(1989) The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
(2012) The Campaign
as Raymond
(2011) Coriolanus
as Menenius
(2011) The Key Man
as Irving
The Parenting
as ---
(2007) A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
(2013) Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
(1982) The Privilege
as Young Laird
(2001) Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
(1968) The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
(2012) Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
(1975) In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
(2022) Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
(1996) Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
(2003) The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
(1992) The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
(2024) Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
(2013) An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
(2010) On Expenses
as ---
(1992) The Cutter
as ---
(2012) I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
(1992) Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
(2013) The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
(2005) Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
(2013) Anna
as Sebastian
(2001) Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
(2013) Believe
as Matt Busby
(2013) Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
(2024) The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
(2013) RED 2
as Ivan
(2005) Match Point
as Alec Hewett
(1974) The Changeling
as Alsemero
(2022) Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
(1992) Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
(1984) Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
(2011) Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
(2025) The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
(2014) The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
(2002) The Trials of Henry Kissinger
as ---
(2014) The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
(2004) Murder by Numbers
as Self
(2016) Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
(1987) Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
The Glove
as ---
(2022) Bonnie
as Self
(1990) The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
(2015) Pixels
as Admiral Porter
(1988) Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
(2023) Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
(2015) Forsaken
as James McCurdy
(2011) Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
(2011) Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
(2024) That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
The Planets
as ---
(2022) Ooh the Banter!
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
(2002) Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
(2008) Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
(2024) Skelly
as Grandpa
(2000) Saltwater
as George Beneventi
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
(1997) Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
(2017) Churchill
as Winston Churchill
(2016) The Carer
as Sir Michael
(2016) Morgan
as Jim Bryce
(2016) The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
(1999) For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
(1989) Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
(2002) Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
(2003) The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
as ---
(2014) Scotland In A Day
as ---
(2005) The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
Glenrothan
as Sandy
(2019) Pretenders
as Henry
(1991) Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
(2000) A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
(1997) Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
(2005) Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
(2017) Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator
(1987) Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
(2015) Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
(1998) Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
(2018) Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen
(2003) Sin
as Captain Oakes
(2019) Strange but True
as Bill
(2002) Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
as Narrator
(1985) Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
(2017) Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
(2018) The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
(2018) Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
(2000) The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
(2019) Remember Me
as Shane
(2020) Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
(2004) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
(1985) The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
(2020) The Bay of Silence
as Milton
(2012) Wide Blue Yonder
as Wally
(1990) Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
(2019) The Last Right
as Father Reilly
(2020) Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
(1994) Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
(1994) The Negotiator
as Charlie King
(2018) Widdershins
as voice
(2015) Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
(2006) The Outsiders
as Gabriel
(2020) John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
(2017) An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
(1965) A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson
(1982) A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
(2002) The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
(1976) Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
(2021) Separation
as Rivers
(1986) Home Cooking
as Vic
(2021) Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
(2006) Carry on Ken
as Self
(1987) Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
(2023) Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
(2023) Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
(1980) Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
(2000) The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
(1987) French & Saunders
as King Lear
(2004) Deadwood
as Jack Langrishe
(2004) The Tony Danza Show
as Self
(2006) The One Show
as Self - Guest
(1979) Question Time
as Self - Panellist
(1979) Minder
as Frank
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Michael Steppings
(2001) Richard & Judy
as Self
(1996) Superman: The Animated Series
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
(2004) Lost
as ---
(2005) The Colbert Report
as ---
(1992) The Big Battalions
as Edward Hoyland
(2000) Nuremberg
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
(1988) Red Dwarf
as The King
(1972) Van der Valk
as Stefan Szabo
(1978) The Devil's Crown
as Henry II of England
(2003) One Life
as ---
(2011) The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
(2009) The Take
as Ozzy
(1987) Acting
as ---
(2017) Carpool Karaoke: The Series
as Self
(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as ---
(2005) Doctor Who
as Sydney Newman
(1980) Hammer House of Horror
as Chuck
(2012) A Touch of Cloth
as ---
(2012) The Straits
as Harry Montebello
(1990) Perfect Scoundrels
as Father Amedy
(1986) Unnatural Causes
as Vic
(1991) Performance
as The Director
(2008) The Colour of Magic
as Narrator
(2013) Shetland
as Magnus Bain
(2012) A Touch of Cloth
as Bill Ball
(1993) Sharpe
as Major Hogan
(2015) The Slap
as Manolis
(2014) The Game
as Daddy
(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
(2012) Tooned
as The Mechanic
(2022) Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
as Presenter
(1989) The Simpsons
as Kostas Becker (voice)
(2016) War and Peace
as Mikhail Kutuzov
(2014) Penny Dreadful
as Jared Talbot
(1988) LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
(2019) Good Omens
as Death (voice)
(2002) Top Gear
as Self
(1993) Frasier
as Harry Moon
(2021) Blade Runner: Black Lotus
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
(2007) The Graham Norton Show
as Self
(2023) 007: Road to a Million
as The Controller
(1980) Therese Raquin
as Laurent
(2014) Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
(2013) Bob Servant
as Bob Servant
(2014) The Great War: The People's Story
as Rev. Andrew Clark
(2017) Brian Cox's Russia
as Host
(2011) The Sinking of the Laconia
as Captain Sharp
(2022) Piers Morgan Uncensored
as Self
(2014) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
(2018) Succession
as Logan Roy
(2009) The Day of the Triffids
as Dennis Masen
(2023) Made of Money with Brian Cox
as ---
(2014) Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
(2000) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
as Anubis (voice)
(2014) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as God
(2017) The Russell Howard Hour
as Self
(1996) The Daily Show
as Self
(2016) Medici: Masters of Florence
as Bernardo Guadagni
(2011) Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
(1970) Manhunt
as Anton
(2000) Longitude
as Lord Morton
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist
(2022) Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor
(2012) Addicted to Pleasure
as Self - Host
(2003) Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
(1992) Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Macbeth (voice)
(1970) Play for Today
as Dr. Gillespie
(1988) The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
(2024) Unsinkable
as Robert Dodds
Amol Rajan Interviews
as Self - Interviewed Guest
(1965) BBC Play of the Month
as Alsemero
(1971) Great Performances
as Self
(1978) Out
as McGrath
(2023) Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
as Self
(2013) The Last Leg
as Self