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