
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.

Troy
as King Agamemnon

The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott

Her
as Alan Watts (voice)

Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace

Pixels
as Admiral Porter

Zodiac
as Melvin Belli

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon

The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden

The Ring
as Richard Morgan

Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)

The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)

The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

RED
as Ivan Simanov

The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)

RED 2
as Ivan

Match Point
as Alec Hewett

Red Eye
as Joe Reisert

Morgan
as Jim Bryce

Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD

The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman

Super Troopers
as Captain O'Hagen

Adaptation.
as Robert McKee

25th Hour
as James Brogan

The Campaign
as Raymond

Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg

Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

Coriolanus
as Menenius

Rob Roy
as Killearn

Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

Anna
as Sebastian

Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier

The Ringer
as Gary Barker

Ironclad
as Albany

The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.

That Christmas
as Santa (voice)

Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky

Iron Will
as Angus McTeague

Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)

The Water Horse
as Old Angus

The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace

Forsaken
as James McCurdy

The Boxer
as Joe Hamill

Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles

For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler

Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen

Red
as Avery Ludlow

The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith

Churchill
as Winston Churchill

The Reckoning
as Tobias

Separation
as Rivers

The Parenting
as Frank

Glenrothan
as Sandy

Bonnie
as Self

L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan

The Independent
as Nick Booker

Saltwater
as George Beneventi

On Expenses

An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman

The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil

The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter

Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch

Quasi
as Narrator (voice)

The Veteran
as Gerry

The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil

The Escapist
as Frank Perry

Tell-Tale
as Van Doren

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)

Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan

The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham

Little Wing
as Jaan Vari

Prisoner's Daughter
as Max

Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine

Blood
as Lenny Fairburn

Sin
as Captain Oakes

Strange but True
as Bill

Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)

The Bay of Silence
as Milton

The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie

The Good Heart
as Jacques

Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

Longitude
as Lord Morton

Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan

Super Troopers 3
as Capt. John O’Hagan

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover

Complicity
as Inspector McDunn

The Minus Man
as Doug

Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant

The Carer
as Sir Michael

King Lear
as Burgundy

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)

Believe
as Matt Busby

Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
as Self

The Key Man
as Irving

Remember Me
as Shane

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves

A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith

Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self

Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan

Bug
as Cyr

Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir

Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self

Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone

Pretenders
as Henry

Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal

The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin

As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan

The Last Right
as Father Reilly

The Marbles
as Self - Interviewee

Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin

The Changeling
as Alsemero

Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator

The Outsiders
as Gabriel

Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)

Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler

Carry On Ken
as Self

Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self

Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison

Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger
as Self

Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson

Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself

Murder on the Moon
as Voronov

Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil

Home Cooking
as Vic

Skelly
as Grandpa

X2
as William Stryker

Murder by Numbers
as Self

All at Sea
as Wally

In Celebration
as Steven Shaw

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson

Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self

Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny

A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie

The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara

The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)

Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
as Narrator

Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith

The Cutter

The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator

Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director

A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt

The Privilege
as Young Laird

Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self

Deceptions
as Carlton Heard

The Negotiator
as Charlie King

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)

The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator

The Glove

The Sunrise File
as Oded Ailam (voice)

The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May

Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
as Self

Ooh the Banter!
as Self

Killing Thyme
as Norman

Scotland In A Day

Old Pals
as Jimmy

The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self

Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie

Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan

An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself

The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)

The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator

Hitler in Colour
as Narrator

Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator

A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson

Pacific Warriors
as Narrator

Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man

The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)

Widdershins
as voice

Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator

AMR: Dying to Change the World
as AMR

A Modern Magician
as The Voice

An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself

The Planets

The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach

Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus

The History of the British Police Force
as Narrator (voice)

Battle of the Clans
as Narrator