Cast
Brian Cox
Acting
Cast
Brian Cox
Known for
Acting
Born
1946-06-01
From
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Also known as Brian Denis Cox, Brian Cox CBE, برایان کاکس
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 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.
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Troy
as Agamemnon
★7.9
MOVIE1995
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
★5.8
MOVIE2015
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
★7.3
MOVIE2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
★6.8
MOVIE2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
★7.5
MOVIE2002
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
★6.7
MOVIE2010
RED
as Ivan Simanov
★7.5
MOVIE2007
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
★7.8
MOVIE2013
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2025
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE2002
The Ring
as Richard Morgan
★7.3
MOVIE2004
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
★6.5
MOVIE2013
RED 2
as Ivan
★6.8
MOVIE2026
Glenrothan
as Sandy
★6.5
MOVIE1997
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
★6.5
MOVIE2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
MOVIE2026
Super Troopers 3
as Capt. John O’Hagan
★7.4
MOVIE2007
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE2001
Super Troopers
as Captain O'Hagen
★6.6
MOVIE1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
★7.1
MOVIE2024
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
★7.4
MOVIE2005
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
★7.4
MOVIE1998
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
★6.5
MOVIE2013
Anna
as Sebastian
★6.5
MOVIE2007
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
★5.8
MOVIE2012
The Campaign
as Raymond
★5.8
MOVIE1996
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
★7.3
MOVIE2002
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
★6.4
MOVIE2005
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
★6.2
MOVIE2011
Ironclad
as Albany
★6.2
MOVIE2015
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
★5.9
MOVIE2018
Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen
★5.8
MOVIE2016
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
★6.0
MOVIE2019
Strange but True
as Bill
★7.3
MOVIE2002
25th Hour
as James Brogan
★6.8
MOVIE2002
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
★6.0
MOVIE1998
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
★5.2
MOVIE2020
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
★5.8
MOVIE2011
Coriolanus
as Menenius
★6.4
MOVIE1999
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
★6.6
MOVIE2023
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
★6.3
MOVIE2019
Remember Me
as Shane
★6.0
MOVIE2025
The Parenting
as Frank
★5.6
MOVIE2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
★5.9
MOVIE2012
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
★6.7
MOVIE1995
Rob Roy
as Killearn
MOVIE1986
Home Cooking
as Vic
★4.0
MOVIE2013
Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
★5.4
MOVIE1996
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
★6.7
MOVIE1994
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
★6.3
MOVIE2008
Red
as Avery Ludlow
★5.8
MOVIE2011
The Veteran
as Gerry
★7.0
MOVIE2007
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
★6.2
MOVIE2017
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
MOVIE1992
The Cutter
★10.0
MOVIE2021
The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders
as Kostas Becker (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE1999
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
★6.1
MOVIE2007
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE2001
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
MOVIE1980
Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
★6.8
MOVIE1993
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
★6.5
MOVIE2006
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
★6.4
MOVIE2004
The Reckoning
as Tobias
★6.5
MOVIE2022
The Independent
as Nick Booker
★4.4
MOVIE2020
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
★7.7
MOVIE2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
★5.0
MOVIE2014
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
★6.7
MOVIE1997
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
★9.0
MOVIE1994
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
★5.5
MOVIE1998
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
★5.3
MOVIE2022
Bonnie
as Self
★8.3
MOVIE2017
Bob Constructorul: Mega Mașini
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
★5.8
MOVIE2006
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
★6.7
MOVIE2001
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
★5.7
MOVIE2005
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
MOVIE2025
The Marbles
as Self - Interviewee
★6.2
MOVIE2023
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
★4.2
MOVIE2020
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2008
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
★7.8
MOVIE2001
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
MOVIE2026
The Sunrise File
as Oded Ailam (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2024
Skelly
as Grandpa
★7.7
MOVIE2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
★5.6
MOVIE2021
Separation
as Rivers
★5.4
MOVIE1994
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine
★5.7
MOVIE2000
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
★6.1
MOVIE1997
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
★5.5
MOVIE1999
The Minus Man
as Doug
★7.6
MOVIE1988
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
★7.4
MOVIE2000
Longitude
as Lord Morton
MOVIE2004
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE1998
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
★7.2
MOVIE1993
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
★7.0
MOVIE1982
The Privilege
as Young Laird
★4.0
MOVIE2006
The Outsiders
as Gabriel
★6.4
MOVIE2009
The Good Heart
as Jacques
★5.2
MOVIE2011
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2018
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
★7.5
MOVIE1984
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
★5.2
MOVIE1968
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
★6.9
MOVIE1990
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
★5.0
MOVIE2010
As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan
★5.1
MOVIE2023
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1987
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
★6.2
MOVIE2007
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
MOVIE2022
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
★3.7
MOVIE2011
The Key Man
as Irving
★5.2
MOVIE2000
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
★6.1
MOVIE2019
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
★6.0
MOVIE1985
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
MOVIE2010
On Expenses
as Michael Martin
★7.0
MOVIE2015
Killing Thyme
as Norman
★5.3
MOVIE2009
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
★5.2
MOVIE1975
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
★8.0
MOVIE1996
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
★5.0
MOVIE2001
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
★7.0
MOVIE1976
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
★8.5
MOVIE1974
The Changeling
as Alsemero
★4.8
MOVIE2008
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
★4.9
MOVIE2003
Sin
as Captain Oakes
★8.0
MOVIE2000
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
★6.8
MOVIE2015
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
MOVIE2008
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
as Narrator
★7.9
MOVIE2005
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
★6.1
MOVIE2013
Believe
as Matt Busby
★6.6
MOVIE2016
The Carer
as Sir Michael
★7.0
MOVIE1997
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
★7.2
MOVIE2013
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
★7.1
MOVIE2000
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
MOVIE1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE2007
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
★7.8
MOVIE2022
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
★3.8
MOVIE1989
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
MOVIE2008
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
as Narrator
★6.6
MOVIE2024
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
MOVIE1999
The History of the British Police Force
as Narrator (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1994
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIETBA
Old Pals
as Jimmy
MOVIE2012
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
★7.0
MOVIE1982
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
★7.1
MOVIE2002
Bug
as Cyr
★5.2
MOVIE2019
Pretenders
as Henry
★7.0
MOVIE2004
Murder by Numbers
as Self
MOVIETBA
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
★6.7
MOVIE1983
King Lear
as Burgundy
★7.2
MOVIE2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
★7.0
MOVIE2003
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
as Self
★5.9
MOVIE1992
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
★6.0
MOVIE1991
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
★6.6
MOVIE2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
★9.0
MOVIE2002
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
MOVIE2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
MOVIE2023
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
MOVIE1998
Battle of the Clans
as Narrator
MOVIE2014
Scotland In A Day
★7.5
MOVIE1990
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
★7.0
MOVIE1992
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
★7.5
MOVIE2007
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
★5.0
MOVIE2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE2002
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
★5.8
MOVIE2000
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
★7.0
MOVIE2018
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
★7.5
MOVIE2018
Widdershins
as voice
MOVIETBA
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
MOVIE2006
Carry On Ken
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator
★7.0
MOVIE1987
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
MOVIE2025
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE2012
All at Sea
as Wally
★6.0
MOVIE1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
as Narrator
MOVIE2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
★7.3
MOVIE2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2003
X2
as William Stryker
★7.5
MOVIE1994
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
MOVIE2022
Ooh the Banter!
as Self
MOVIE1990
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
★7.0
MOVIE2014
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
★7.0
MOVIE1965
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson
★7.0
MOVIE2002
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
MOVIE2017
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator
★6.7
MOVIE2005
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
MOVIE2017
An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
MOVIETBA
The Glove
MOVIE2020
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
MOVIE2025
AMR: Dying to Change the World
as AMR
★7.0
MOVIE1985
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
★6.7
MOVIE2015
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
MOVIE2016
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
MOVIE2009
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
MOVIE1989
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1992
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
★6.9
MOVIE2002
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2005
Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIETBA
The Planets
★7.0
MOVIE1986
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
MOVIE1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
★9.0
MOVIE2020
The Craft Behind Succession
as Logan Roy