Brian Cox

Brian Cox


  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 01-06-1946
  • Gender: Male
  • Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland, UK
  • Also Known As:

    Brian Denis Cox
    Брайан Кокс

  • Popularity: 36.10
  • Homepage: N/A


​Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore and William Stryker in X2. He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 production Manhunter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.




Year Movie Character
2009 The Good Heart as Jacques
2007 Trick 'r Treat as Mr. Kreeg
2008 Red as Avery Ludlow
2008 The Escapist as Frank Perry
2005 Japan's War In Colour as Narrator
2007 The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
1988 Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Voiceover Narrator
1992 The Lost Language of Cranes as Owen Benjamin
1992 The Cutter
2013 The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover
2005 Hitler in Colour as Narrator
2002 Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
2017 Churchill as Winston Churchill
2016 The Carer as Sir Michael
2002 Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
1997 Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
2005 Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
1987 Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson
2017 Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
2015 Pacific Warriors as Narrator
2002 Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
2019 The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
2018 Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
2000 The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel
1985 The Cantor of St Thomas's as Johann Sebastian Bach
2012 Wide Blue Yonder as Wally
2019 The Last Right as Father Reilly
2020 Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
1994 Grushko as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994 The Negotiator as Charlie King
2018 Widdershins as voice
2015 Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2020 John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
2017 An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
2021 Separation as Rivers
2023 Mending the Line as Ike Fletcher
1989 Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self
1994 The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
1982 The Privilege as Young Laird
2024 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
1970 A Modern Magician as The Voice
2002 The Trials of Henry Kissinger
1987 Shoot for the Sun as Dunny
1970 The Planets
2023 An Interview with Brian Cox as Himself
2023 Quasi as Narrator (voice)
2000 Complicity as Inspector McDunn
2002 Bug as Cyr
2005 The Ringer as Gary Barker
1997 The Boxer as Joe Hamill
1990 Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan
1993 Sharpe's Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
1993 Sharpe's Rifles as Major Michael Hogan
2011 The Key Man as Irving
1968 The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
1975 In Celebration as Steven Shaw
1992 The Cloning of Joanna May as Carl May
2010 On Expenses
2012 I Missed My Mother's Funeral as Old Man
1992 Six Characters in Search of An Author as The Director
2013 Believe as Matt Busby
2011 Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice)
2010 As Good As Dead as Reverend Kalahan
2016 The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden
2014 Scotland In A Day
2000 Saltwater as George Beneventi
2007 Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice)
1986 Home Cooking as Vic
1987 Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
2023 Prisoner's Daughter as Max
2022 The Independent as Nick Booker
1992 Macbeth as Macbeth (voice)
1992 Deceptions as Carlton Heard
2004 Murder by Numbers as Self
1970 Riff Raff
2004 The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
1999 The Minus Man as Doug
2005 Red Eye as Joe Reisert
2006 Running with Scissors as Dr. Finch
1994 Iron Will as Angus McTeague
1998 Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
2009 Tell-Tale as Van Doren
2000 Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin
1983 King Lear as Burgundy
2001 L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan
2011 The Veteran as Gerry
2001 Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
2013 Anna as Sebastian
1974 The Changeling as Alsemero
2014 The Anomaly as Dr. Langham
1991 Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison
2008 Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
2003 Sin as Captain Oakes
1984 Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
2017 Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
2020 The Bay of Silence as Milton
1970 The Parenting
1970 The Electric State
2000 Nuremberg as Herman Wilhelm Goering
2005 Match Point as Alec Hewett
2002 The Ring as Richard Morgan
2004 Troy as King Agamemnon
2004 The Reckoning as Tobias
1996 The Glimmer Man as Mr. Smith
1994 Royal Deceit as Aethelwine
2012 Blood as Lenny Fairburn
2013 An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
2005 The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell
1988 Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves
2015 Forsaken as James McCurdy
2019 Pretenders as Henry
2020 Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles
2002 The Biographer as Michael O'Mara
1998 Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
2002 The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott
1986 Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1998 Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
2011 Ironclad as Albany
2001 Super Troopers as Captain O'Hagan
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil
2007 A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
2001 Inside 'Manhunter' as Himself
2013 Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
1999 For Love of the Game as Gary Wheeler
1989 Murder on the Moon as Voronov
2000 A Shot at Glory as Martin Smith
1998 Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
2019 Strange but True as Bill
2019 Remember Me as Shane
2006 Carry on Ken
1970 The Glove
2022 Bonnie as Self
2002 25th Hour as James Brogan
1996 The Long Kiss Goodnight as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1995 Rob Roy as Killearn
1996 Chain Reaction as Lyman Earl Collier
2002 The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr.
2006 The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter
2011 Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
2008 Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
2007 Zodiac as Melvin Belli
2009 Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword as Green Dragon (voice)
2007 The Water Horse as Old Angus
2015 Pixels as Admiral Porter
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
1990 Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
2006 The Outsiders as Gabriel
2022 Ukraine: Answering the Call as Self
1997 Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
2010 RED as Ivan Simanov
2011 Coriolanus as Menenius
1965 A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson
2021 Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Narrator (voice)
2022 Ooh the Banter! as Self (archive footage)
2003 X2 as William Stryker
2000 Longitude as Lord Morton
2012 The Campaign as Raymond
2013 RED 2 as Ivan
1985 Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
1999 The Corruptor as Sean Wallace
2018 Super Troopers 2 as Captain O'Hagan
1982 A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
2016 Morgan as Jim Bryce
2013 Her as Alan Watts (voice)
1995 Braveheart as Argyle Wallace
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
1976 Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
2002 Adaptation. as Robert McKee
2008 Red
1970 Riff Raff
Photo Name Department
2004 Deadwood (9 episode) as Jack Langrishe
1987 Inspector Morse (1 episode) as Michael Steppings
2001 Richard & Judy (2 episode) as Self
1996 Superman: The Animated Series (1 episode) as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
2004 Lost (1 episode)
2000 Nuremberg (2 episode) as Herman Wilhelm Goering
1988 Red Dwarf (1 episode) as The King
2009 The Take (4 episode) as Ozzy
1978 The Devil's Crown (13 episode) as Henry II of England
2012 A Touch of Cloth (0 episode)
2004 The Tony Danza Show (1 episode) as Self
2013 Shetland (2 episode) as Magnus Bain
1987 French & Saunders (1 episode) as King Lear
2006 The One Show (1 episode) as Self - Guest
1979 Minder (1 episode) as Frank
2005 The Colbert Report (1 episode)
1993 Frasier (2 episode) as Harry Moon
1972 Van der Valk (1 episode)
1970 Play for Today (1 episode)
2003 One Life (1 episode)
2012 The Straits (10 episode) as Harry Montebello
1980 Hammer House of Horror (1 episode) as Chuck
2008 The Colour of Magic (2 episode) as Narrator
2012 Tooned (8 episode) as The Mechanic
2012 A Touch of Cloth (1 episode) as Bill Ball
2015 The Slap (8 episode) as Manolis
2014 The Game (6 episode) as Daddy
1993 Sharpe (2 episode) as Major Hogan
2016 War and Peace (6 episode) as Mikhail Kutuzov
2014 Penny Dreadful (9 episode) as Jared Talbot
2013 Bob Servant (9 episode) as Bob Servant
2002 Top Gear (2 episode) as Himself
2007 The Graham Norton Show (1 episode) as Himself
1980 Thérèse Raquin (3 episode) as Laurent LeClaire
2014 The Great War: The People's Story (1 episode) as Rev. Andrew Clark
2018 Succession (39 episode) as Logan Roy
2009 The Day of the Triffids (2 episode) as Dennis Masen
2011 The Sinking of the Laconia (2 episode) as Captain Sharp
2016 Medici: Masters of Florence (8 episode) as Bernardo Guadagni
2019 Good Omens (3 episode) as Death (voice)
1970 Have I Got a Bit More News for You (1 episode) as Himself - Panellist
2003 Real Time with Bill Maher (1 episode) as Self
1971 Great Performances (1 episode) as Self
1978 Out (3 episode) as McGrath
1979 Question Time (5 episode) as Self - Panellist
1992 The Big Battalions (5 episode) as Edward Hoyland
1987 Acting (1 episode)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2 episode) as Self
1989 The Simpsons (2 episode) as Kostas Becker (voice)
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1 episode) as Self - Guest
2021 Blade Runner: Black Lotus (5 episode) as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
2022 Piers Morgan Uncensored (2 episode) as Self
2014 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (1 episode) as God
1996 The Daily Show (1 episode) as Self
2000 Longitude (2 episode) as Lord Morton
2012 Addicted to Pleasure (4 episode) as Self - Host
2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (1 episode)
1992 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 episode) as Macbeth (voice)
2005 Doctor Who (1 episode) as Sydney Newman
2011 The Jonathan Ross Show (1 episode) as Self
2017 Carpool Karaoke: The Series (1 episode) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 episode)
1986 Unnatural Causes (1 episode) as Vic
1991 Performance (1 episode) as The Director
1990 Perfect Scoundrels (1 episode) as Father Amedy
2022 Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live (2 episode) as Presenter
1997 Oz (1 episode) Directing as (Director)

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