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