Brian Cox
Actor
Born June 1, 1946 in Dundee, Scotland, UK
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).
Filmography
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Super Troopers 3
Capt. John O’Hagan
A Modern Magician
The Voice
The Glove
The Planets
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Himself - Panellist
The Sunrise File
Oded Ailam (voice)
Glenrothan
Sandy
The Marbles
Self - Interviewee
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Dexter: Resurrection
New York Ripper
VE Day 80
Self
Seven Jewish Children
The Parenting
Frank
The Electric State
Popfly (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
Santa (voice)
Unsinkable
Robert Dodds
Skelly
Grandpa
Little Wing
Jaan Vari
007: Road to a Million
The Controller
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self
Made of Money with Brian Cox
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Narrator (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
Max
Mending the Line
Ike Fletcher
Quasi
Narrator (voice)
An Interview with Brian Cox
Himself
Ooh the Banter!
Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Presenter
Bonnie
Self
The Independent
Nick Booker
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Self
Remembers…
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Self
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
The Simpsons: A Serious Flanders
Kostas Becker (voice)
Amol Rajan Interviews
Self - Interviewed Guest
Separation
Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Narrator (voice)
The Bay of Silence
Milton
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
John Rebus
Last Moment of Clarity
Gilles
Lawrence After Arabia
Father (Voice)
The Last Right
Father Reilly
Strange but True
Bill
Pretenders
Henry
Remember Me
Shane
Good Omens
Death (voice)
Kubrick by Candlelight
The Narrator
Widdershins
voice
Succession
Logan Roy
Super Troopers 2
John O'Hagen
The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil
The Russell Howard Hour
Self
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self
Bob Constructorul: Mega Mașini
Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Churchill
Winston Churchill
Brian Cox's Russia
Host
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Narrator
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tommy Tilden
Medici: Masters of Florence
Bernardo Guadagni
Morgan
Jim Bryce
The Carer
Sir Michael
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
War and Peace
Mikhail Kutuzov
Killing Thyme
Norman
Forsaken
James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Pixels
Admiral Porter
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Slap
Manolis
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Game
Daddy
The Great War: The People's Story
Rev. Andrew Clark
The Anomaly
Dr. Langham
Penny Dreadful
Jared Talbot
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
God
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
Edgar Hoover
Anna
Sebastian
Believe
Matt Busby
RED 2
Ivan
Shetland
Magnus Bain
The Last Leg
Self
Bob Servant
Bob Servant
Addicted to Pleasure
Self - Host
Blood
Lenny Fairburn
A Touch of Cloth
Bill Ball
The Campaign
Raymond
Tooned
The Mechanic
All at Sea
Wally
The Straits
Harry Montebello
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant
Exit Humanity
Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Glover
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
The Veteran
Gerry
Ironclad
Albany
The Key Man
Irving
Coriolanus
Menenius
The Sinking of the Laconia
Captain Sharp
RED
Ivan Simanov
On Expenses
Michael Martin
As Good As Dead
Reverend Kalahan
The Day of the Triffids
Dennis Masen
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Self
The Good Heart
Jacques
The Take
Ozzy
Tell-Tale
Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Green Dragon (voice)
Kings
King Vesper Abaddon
Red
Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
Frank Perry
The Colour of Magic
Narrator
Agent Crush
Spanners (voice)
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
Narrator
The Water Horse
Old Angus
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Drosselmeyer
Shoot on Sight
Daniel Tennant
Trick 'r Treat
Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra
General Hemmer (voice)
The Bourne Ultimatum
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Woman in Winter
Dr. Hunt
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
The Graham Norton Show
Self
M.I. High
Voice of the Mastermind
Running with Scissors
Dr. Finch
The Flying Scotsman
Douglas Baxter
The One Show
Self - Guest
Carry On Ken
Self
The Ringer
Gary Barker
Match Point
Alec Hewett
The Colbert Report
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Bell
Red Eye
Joe Reisert
Hitler in Colour
Narrator
Blue/Orange
Dr. Robert Smith
Japan's War in Colour
Self - Narrator (voice)
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
The Bourne Supremacy
Ward Abbott
Troy
Agamemnon
Deadwood
Jack Langrishe
Murder by Numbers
Self
The Reckoning
Tobias
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
X2
William Stryker
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Sin
Captain Oakes
25th Hour
James Brogan
Adaptation.
Robert McKee
Top Gear
Self
The Ring
Richard Morgan
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Self
The Biographer
Michael O'Mara
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Narrator
The Rookie
Jim Morris Sr.
Bug
Cyr
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Narrator
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Narrator
The Affair of the Necklace
Minister Breteuil
Richard & Judy
Self
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
Strictly Sinatra
Chisolm
Super Troopers
Captain O'Hagen
Inside 'Manhunter'
Himself
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Anubis (voice)
Saltwater
George Beneventi
Nuremberg
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Complicity
Inspector McDunn
A Shot at Glory
Martin Smith
Mad About Mambo
Sidney McLoughlin
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
Longitude
Lord Morton
Longitude
Lord Morton
The Minus Man
Doug
For Love of the Game
Gary Wheeler
The Corruptor
Sean Wallace
Rushmore
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Poodle Springs
Clayton Blackstone
Battle of the Clans
Narrator
Merchants of Venus
Uncle Vladimir
Desperate Measures
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Boxer
Joe Hamill
Food for Ravens
Aneurin Bevan
Sharpe: The Legend
Hogan
Kiss the Girls
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
Oz
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Narrator
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Glimmer Man
Mr. Smith
Superman: The Animated Series
Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Chain Reaction
Lyman Earl Collier
The Daily Show
Self
Witness Against Hitler
Judge Freisler
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
Killearn
The Maltese Double Cross
Narrator (voice)
The Negotiator
Charlie King
Grushko
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Prince of Jutland
Aethelwine
Iron Will
Angus McTeague
Frasier
Harry Moon
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe
Major Hogan
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Director
The Big Battalions
Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Macbeth (voice)
The Cutter
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May
Deceptions
Carlton Heard
Red Fox
Geoffrey Harrison
Performance
The Director
Hidden Agenda
Peter Kerrigan
Have I Got News for You
Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
self
Perfect Scoundrels
Father Amedy
Secret Weapon
Andrew Neil
The Simpsons
Kostas Becker (voice)
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
Voronov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Voiceover Narrator
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Jack Purves
Red Dwarf
The King
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Shoot for the Sun
Dunny
French & Saunders
King Lear
Inspector Morse
Michael Steppings
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Narrator
Home Cooking
Vic
Unnatural Causes
Vic
Manhunter
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Florence Nightingale
Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II
Father Góra
King Lear
Burgundy
A Cotswold Death
Dr. Gillespie
The Privilege
Young Laird
House on the Hill
Leon Douglas
Hammer House of Horror
Chuck
Dalhousie's Luck
Dalhousie
Therese Raquin
Laurent LeClaire
Minder
Frank
Question Time
Self - Panellist
Out
McGrath
The Devil's Crown
Henry II
Target
Billy Voss
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
George Simpson
Shades of Greene
Harry
In Celebration
Steven Shaw
Churchill's People
William Wallace
Playhouse
Dalhousie
The Changeling
Alsemero
Van der Valk
Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra
Trotsky
Great Performances
Self - Narration (voice)
Play for Today
Dr. Gillespie
Manhunt
Anton
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lasar Opie
ITV Playhouse
Apeman
BBC Play of the Month
Alsemero
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Josef Stalin
The Wednesday Play
Nelson
Theatre 625
Lasar Opie