Brian Cox
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 1, 1946 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Credits
- 302
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.
Known for
Filmography
Super Troopers 3
2026Movie
Captain O’Hagan
The Sunrise File
2026Movie
Oded Ailam (voice)
Glenrothan
2026Movie
Sandy
The Marbles
2025Movie
Self - Interviewee
Trick 'r Treat
2025Movie
Mr. Kreeg
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025Movie
Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Dexter: Resurrection
2025TV
The New York Ripper
VE Day 80
2025TV
Self
The Parenting
2025Movie
Frank
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025Movie
AMR
The Electric State
2025Movie
Popfly (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024Movie
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
2024Movie
Santa (voice)
Unsinkable
2024TV
Robert Dodds
Skelly
2024Movie
Grandpa
Little Wing
2024Movie
Jaan Vari
007: Road to a Million
2023TV
The Controller
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023TV
Self
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023TV
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023Movie
Narrator (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
2023Movie
Max
Mending the Line
2023Movie
Ike Fletcher
Quasi
2023Movie
Narrator (voice)
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023Movie
Himself
Ooh the Banter!
2022Movie
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022Movie
Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022TV
Presenter
Bonnie
2022Movie
Self
The Independent
2022Movie
Nick Booker
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022TV
Self – Actor, Self - Actor
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022Movie
Self
Remembers…
2022TV
Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022TV
Self
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021TV
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021TV
Self - Interviewed Guest
Separation
2021Movie
Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Bay of Silence
2020Movie
Milton
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020Movie
John Rebus
Last Moment of Clarity
2020Movie
Gilles
Lawrence After Arabia
2020Movie
Father (Voice)
The Last Right
2019Movie
Father Reilly
Strange but True
2019Movie
Bill
Pretenders
2019Movie
Henry
Remember Me
2019Movie
Shane
Good Omens
2019TV
Death (voice)
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018Movie
The Narrator
Widdershins
2018Movie
voice
Succession
2018TV
Logan Roy
Super Troopers 2
2018Movie
Captain O'Hagan
The Etruscan Smile
2018Movie
Rory MacNeil
The Russell Howard Hour
2017TV
Self
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017TV
Self
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017Movie
Himself
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
2017Movie
Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Churchill
2017Movie
Winston Churchill
Brian Cox's Russia
2017TV
Host
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017Movie
Narrator
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016Movie
Self
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016Movie
Tommy Tilden
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016TV
Bernardo Guadagni
Morgan
2016Movie
Jim Bryce
The Carer
2016Movie
Sir Michael
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016Movie
Self
War and Peace
2016TV
Mikhail Kutuzov
Killing Thyme
2015Movie
Norman
Forsaken
2015Movie
James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
2015Movie
Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015TV
Self - Guest, Self
Pixels
2015Movie
Admiral Porter
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015Movie
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Slap
2015TV
Manolis
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014TV
Self
The Gospel of John
2014Movie
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Game
2014TV
Daddy
Scotland In A Day
2014Movie
The Great War: The People's Story
2014TV
Rev. Andrew Clark
The Anomaly
2014Movie
Dr. Langham
Penny Dreadful
2014TV
Jared Talbot
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014TV
God
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014TV
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014TV
Self
Her
2013Movie
Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013Movie
Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
2013Movie
Edgar Hoover
Anna
2013Movie
Sebastian
Believe
2013Movie
Matt Busby
Blumenthal
2013Movie
Harold Blumenthal
RED 2
2013Movie
Ivan
Shetland
2013TV
Magnus Bain
The Last Leg
2013TV
Self
Bob Servant
2013TV
Bob Servant
Addicted to Pleasure
2012TV
Self - Host
Blood
2012Movie
Lenny Fairburn
A Touch of Cloth
2012TV
Bill Ball
The Campaign
2012Movie
Raymond
Tooned
2012TV
The Mechanic
All at Sea
2012Movie
Wally
The Straits
2012TV
Harry Montebello
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012Movie
Old Man
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011TV
Self - Participant
Exit Humanity
2011Movie
Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011Movie
Glover
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011TV
Self, Self - Guest
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011Movie
John Landon
The Veteran
2011Movie
Gerry
Ironclad
2011Movie
Albany
The Key Man
2011Movie
Irving
Coriolanus
2011Movie
Menenius
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011TV
Captain Sharp
RED
2010Movie
Ivan Simanov
On Expenses
2010Movie
Michael Martin
As Good As Dead
2010Movie
Reverand Kalahan
The Day of the Triffids
2009TV
Dennis Masen
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009Movie
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009Movie
Self
The Good Heart
2009Movie
Jacques
The Take
2009TV
Ozzy
Tell-Tale
2009Movie
Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009Movie
Green Dragon (voice)
Kings
2009TV
King Vesper Abaddon
Red
2008Movie
Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
2008Movie
Frank Perry
The Colour of Magic
2008TV
Narrator
Agent Crush
2008Movie
Spanners (voice)
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008Movie
Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008Movie
Narrator
The Water Horse
2007Movie
Old Angus
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007Movie
Drosselmeyer
Shoot on Sight
2007Movie
Daniel Tennant
Battle for Terra
2007Movie
General Hemmer (voice)
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007Movie
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Woman in Winter
2007Movie
Dr. Hunt
Zodiac
2007Movie
Melvin Belli
The Graham Norton Show
2007TV
Self
M.I. High
2007TV
Voice of the Mastermind
Running with Scissors
2006Movie
Dr. Finch
The Outsiders
2006Movie
Gabriel
The Flying Scotsman
2006Movie
Douglas Baxter
The One Show
2006TV
Self - Guest
Carry On Ken
2006Movie
Self
The Ringer
2005Movie
Gary Barker
Match Point
2005Movie
Alec Hewett
The Colbert Report
2005TV
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005Movie
Joseph Bell
Red Eye
2005Movie
Joe Reisert
Hitler in Colour
2005Movie
Narrator
Blue/Orange
2005Movie
Dr. Robert Smith
Japan's War in Colour
2005Movie
Self - Narrator (voice)
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004Movie
Self
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Lewis Serrocold
The Tony Danza Show
2004TV
Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004Movie
Other Voices (voice)
The Bourne Supremacy
2004Movie
Ward Abbott
Troy
2004Movie
Agamemnon
Deadwood
2004TV
Jack Langrishe
Murder by Numbers
2004Movie
Self
The Reckoning
2004Movie
Tobias
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003Movie
Self
One Life
2003TV
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003Movie
Self
X2
2003Movie
William Stryker
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003TV
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003TV
Self - Guest
Sin
2003Movie
Captain Oakes
25th Hour
2002Movie
James Brogan
Adaptation.
2002Movie
Robert McKee
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002Movie
Narrator
Top Gear
2002TV
Self
The Ring
2002Movie
Richard Morgan
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002Movie
Self
The Biographer
2002Movie
Michael O'Mara
The Bourne Identity
2002Movie
Ward Abbott
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002Movie
Narrator
The Rookie
2002Movie
Jim Morris Sr.
Bug
2002Movie
Cyr
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002Movie
Narrator
Masters of Darkness
2002TV
Narrator
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002Movie
Narrator
The Affair of the Necklace
2001Movie
Minister Breteuil
Richard & Judy
2001TV
Self
L.I.E.
2001Movie
Big John Harrigan
Strictly Sinatra
2001Movie
Chisolm
Super Troopers
2001Movie
Captain O'Hagen
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001Movie
Himself
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000TV
Anubis (voice)
Saltwater
2000Movie
George Beneventi
Nuremberg
2000TV
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Complicity
2000Movie
Inspector McDunn
A Shot at Glory
2000Movie
Martin Smith
Mad About Mambo
2000Movie
Sidney McLoughlin
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000Movie
Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000Movie
Self
Longitude
2000Movie
Lord Morton
Longitude
2000TV
Lord Morton
The History of the British Police Force
1999Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Minus Man
1999Movie
Doug
For Love of the Game
1999Movie
Gary Wheeler
The Corruptor
1999Movie
Sean Wallace
Rushmore
1998Movie
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Poodle Springs
1998Movie
Clayton Blackstone
Battle of the Clans
1998Movie
Narrator
Merchants of Venus
1998Movie
Uncle Vladimir
Desperate Measures
1998Movie
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Boxer
1997Movie
Joe Hamill
Food for Ravens
1997Movie
Aneurin Bevan
Sharpe: The Legend
1997Movie
Hogan
Kiss the Girls
1997Movie
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
1997TV
Narrator
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996Movie
Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Glimmer Man
1996Movie
Mr. Smith
Superman: The Animated Series
1996TV
Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Chain Reaction
1996Movie
Lyman Earl Collier
The Daily Show
1996TV
Self
Witness Against Hitler
1996Movie
Judge Freisler
Braveheart
1995Movie
Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
1995Movie
Killearn
The Maltese Double Cross
1994Movie
Narrator (voice)
The Negotiator
1994Movie
Charlie King
Grushko
1994Movie
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Prince of Jutland
1994Movie
Aethelwine
Iron Will
1994Movie
Angus McTeague
Frasier
1993TV
Harry Moon
Sharpe's Eagle
1993Movie
Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
1993Movie
Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe
1993TV
Major Hogan
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992Movie
The Director
The Big Battalions
1992TV
Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992TV
Macbeth (voice)
The Cutter
1992Movie
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992Movie
Owen Benjamin
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992TV
Carl May
Deceptions
1992Movie
Carlton Heard
Red Fox
1991Movie
Geoffrey Harrison
Performance
1991TV
The Director
Hidden Agenda
1990Movie
Peter Kerrigan
Have I Got News for You
1990TV
Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990Movie
self
Perfect Scoundrels
1990TV
Father Amedy
Secret Weapon
1990Movie
Andrew Neil
The Simpsons
1989TV
Kostas Becker (voice)
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989Movie
Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989Movie
Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
1989Movie
Voronov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988Movie
Voiceover Narrator
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988TV
Self - Guest
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988Movie
Jack Purves
Red Dwarf
1988TV
The King
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988TV
Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Acting
1987TV
Shoot for the Sun
1987Movie
Dunny
French & Saunders
1987TV
King Lear
Inspector Morse
1987TV
Michael Steppings
Rat in the Skull
1987Movie
Detective Inspector Nelson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987Movie
Narrator
Home Cooking
1986Movie
Vic
Unnatural Causes
1986TV
Vic
Manhunter
1986Movie
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Florence Nightingale
1985Movie
Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985Movie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II
1984Movie
Father Góra
King Lear
1983Movie
Burgundy
A Cotswold Death
1982Movie
Dr. Gillespie
The Privilege
1982Movie
Young Laird
House on the Hill
1981TV
Leon Douglas
Hammer House of Horror
1980TV
Chuck
Dalhousie's Luck
1980Movie
Dalhousie
Therese Raquin
1980TV
Laurent LeClaire
Minder
1979TV
Frank
Question Time
1979TV
Self - Panellist
Out
1978TV
McGrath
The Devil's Crown
1978TV
Henry II
Target
1977TV
Billy Voss
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976Movie
George Simpson
Shades of Greene
1975TV
Harry
In Celebration
1975Movie
Steven Shaw
The Master of Ballantrae
1975TV
Henry Durie
Churchill's People
1974TV
William Wallace
Playhouse
1974TV
Dalhousie
The Changeling
1974Movie
Alsemero
Van der Valk
1972TV
Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971Movie
Trotsky
Stage 2
1971TV
Hastings
Great Performances
1971TV
Self - Narration (voice)
Play for Today
1970TV
Dr. Gillespie
Manhunt
1970TV
Anton
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968Movie
Lasar Opie
The Gamblers
1967TV
Mickey
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Apeman
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Alsemero
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Josef Stalin, Rod
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965Movie
Nelson
The Wednesday Play
1964TV
Nelson
Theatre 625
1964TV
Lasar Opie
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TV
Himself - Panellist
Old Pals
Movie
Jimmy
The Planets
Movie
A Modern Magician
Movie
The Voice
Super Troopers 4
Movie
Captain O'Hagan
Wittgenstein's Poker
Movie
Bertrand Russell (voice)
Just Dandy
Movie
Self
The Glove
Movie