Personal Info
Known Credits
185
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1946-06-01 (79 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Dundee, Scotland, UK
Also Known For
Brian Denis CoxBrian Cox CBE
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