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Brian Cox
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.
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... Read More
Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers as Capt. John O’Hagan | 2026-08-06 |
| Glenrothan as Sandy | 2026-04-17 |
| The Marbles as Self - Interviewee | 2025-11-07 |
| Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice) | 2025-09-22 |
| The Parenting as Frank | 2025-03-12 |
| AMR: Dying to Change the World as AMR | 2025-03-11 |
| The Electric State as Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-07 |
| The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-05 |
| That Christmas as Santa (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| Skelly as Grandpa | 2024-05-07 |
| Little Wing as Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Bill Douglas: My Best Friend as Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
| Prisoner's Daughter as Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Mending the Line as Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Quasi as Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| An Interview with Brian Cox as Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Ooh the Banter! as Self | 2022-12-31 |
| Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba as Self | 2022-11-26 |
| Bonnie as Self | 2022-11-12 |
| The Independent as Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self | 2022-07-03 |
| Separation as Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-23 |
| The Bay of Silence as Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus | 2020-05-27 |
| Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice) | 2020-05-19 |
| The Last Right as Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Strange but True as Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Pretenders as Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Remember Me as Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Widdershins as voice | 2018-06-27 |
| Super Troopers 2 as John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself | 2017-07-26 |
| Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Conrad / Crunch (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Churchill as Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator | 2017-02-18 |
| Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC as Self | 2016-12-23 |
| The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Morgan as Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| The Carer as Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light as Self | 2016-06-13 |
| Killing Thyme as Norman | 2015-11-17 |
| Forsaken as James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Pacific Warriors as Narrator | 2015-09-10 |
| Pixels as Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice) | 2015-07-01 |
| The Gospel of John as Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 |
| The Anomaly as Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Her as Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Anna as Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Believe as Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| RED 2 as Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Blood as Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| The Campaign as Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| All at Sea as Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| I Missed My Mother's Funeral as Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| The Veteran as Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Ironclad as Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| The Key Man as Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Coriolanus as Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| RED as Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| On Expenses | 2010-02-23 |
| As Good As Dead as Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-14 |
| Brian Cox's Jute Journey as Self | 2009-10-05 |
| The Good Heart as Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Tell-Tale as Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword as Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Red as Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| The Escapist as Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Agent Crush as Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| The Water Horse as Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant | 2007-12-15 |
| Trick 'r Treat as Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| The Bourne Ultimatum as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2007-08-03 |
| A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Zodiac as Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Running with Scissors as Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| The Outsiders as Gabriel | 2006-10-03 |
| The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Carry On Ken as Self | 2006-01-01 |
| The Ringer as Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Match Point as Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Red Eye as Joe Reisert | 2005-08-10 |
| Hitler in Colour as Narrator | 2005-04-30 |
| Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
| Japan's War in Colour as Self - Narrator (voice) | 2005-01-17 |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Troy as King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Murder by Numbers as Self | 2004-03-16 |
| The Reckoning as Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 as Self | 2003-11-25 |
| The Evolution of an American Filmmaker as Self | 2003-05-20 |
| X2 as William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Sin as Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| 25th Hour as James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Adaptation. as Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator | 2002-11-19 |
| The Ring as Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger as Self | 2002-09-29 |
| The Biographer as Michael O'Mara | 2002-09-01 |
| The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch as Narrator | 2002-04-01 |
| The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Bug as Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Super Troopers as Captain O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Saltwater as George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Complicity as Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| A Shot at Glory as Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| The Making of 'Rushmore' as Self | 2000-01-25 |
| Longitude as Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| The History of the British Police Force as Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-27 |
| The Minus Man as Doug | 1999-09-24 |
| For Love of the Game as Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| The Corruptor as Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Battle of the Clans as Narrator | 1998-07-12 |
| Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| The Boxer as Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Sharpe: The Legend as Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD | 1997-09-29 |
| The Long Kiss Goodnight as Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| The Glimmer Man as Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Chain Reaction as Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Witness Against Hitler as Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| Braveheart as Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Rob Roy as Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice) | 1994-11-16 |
| The Negotiator as Charlie King | 1994-05-31 |
| Grushko as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Prince of Jutland as Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Iron Will as Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Sharpe's Rifles as Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Six Characters in Search of An Author as The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| Macbeth as Macbeth | 1992-11-23 |
| The Cutter | 1992-08-10 |
| The Lost Language of Cranes as Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
| The Cloning of Joanna May as Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| Deceptions as Carlton Heard | 1992-01-01 |
| Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-12-08 |
| Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' as self | 1990-05-01 |
| Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
| Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self | 1989-12-07 |
| The Blasphemers' Banquet as Rev. Wallace (voice) | 1989-07-31 |
| Murder on the Moon as Voronov | 1989-05-09 |
| Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Shoot for the Sun as Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
| Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
| Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Home Cooking as Vic | 1986-11-08 |
| Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach | 1985-04-07 |
| Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor | 1985-04-07 |
| Pope John Paul II as Father Góra | 1984-04-22 |
| King Lear as Burgundy | 1983-04-03 |
| A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie | 1982-01-12 |
| The Privilege as Young Laird | 1982-01-01 |
| Dalhousie's Luck as Dalhousie | 1980-08-03 |
| Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson | 1976-02-24 |
| In Celebration as Steven Shaw | 1975-03-17 |
| The Changeling as Alsemero | 1974-01-20 |
| Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
| The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |
| A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson | 1965-07-07 |









