Actor
Brian Cox
Biography

Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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 Roya ...

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