8.3
8.3
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Brian Cox
Also known as: Brian Denis Cox
Acting
Born:June 1, 1946(age 80)
Birthplace:Dundee, Scotland, UK
Nationality:United Kingdom
Education:London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
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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.
Filmography (192 movies)
8.0
8.0
Japan's War in Colour
2005
as Self - Narrator (voice)
8.0
8.0
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2'
2003
7.9
7.9
Braveheart
1995
as Argyle Wallace
7.9
7.9
Hitler in Colour
2005
as Narrator
7.8
7.8
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
7.7
7.7
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
as Sydney Newman
7.7
7.7
A Woman in Winter
2007
as Dr. Hunt
7.7
7.7
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Green Dragon (voice)
7.6
7.6
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
7.6
7.6
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
as Voiceover Narrator
7.5
7.5
Zodiac
2007
as Melvin Belli
7.5
7.5
The Bourne Identity
2002
as Ward Abbott
7.4
7.4
Widdershins
2018
as voice
7.4
7.4
Rushmore
1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
7.4
7.4
Match Point
2005
as Alec Hewett
7.3
7.3
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as John Landon
7.3
7.3
The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Ward Abbott
7.3
7.3
25th Hour
2002
as James Brogan
7.3
7.3
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
7.3
7.3
Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
7.2
7.2
Troy
2004
as Agamemnon
7.2
7.2
Bug
2002
as Cyr
7.2
7.2
The Curse of Edgar
2013
as Edgar Hoover
7.2
7.2
That Christmas
2024
as Santa (voice)
7.1
7.1
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
7.1
7.1
Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
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7.0
X2
2003
as William Stryker
7.0
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Manhunter
1986
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
7.0
7.0
The Gospel of John
2014
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
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7.0
The Changeling
1974
as Alsemero
7.0
7.0
A Cotswold Death
1982
as Dr. Gillespie
7.0
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Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
as The Narrator
7.0
7.0
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
2002
as Narrator
7.0
7.0
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
as Carl May
7.0
7.0
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
as Himself
7.0
7.0
The Maltese Double Cross
1994
as Narrator (voice)
7.0
7.0
Trick 'r Treat
2007
as Mr. Kreeg
6.9
6.9
Hidden Agenda
1990
as Peter Kerrigan
6.9
6.9
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
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6.9
Pope John Paul II
1984
as Father Góra
6.9
6.9
Saltwater
2000
as George Beneventi
6.8
6.8
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
as Tommy Tilden
6.8
6.8
The Rookie
2002
as Jim Morris Sr.
6.8
6.8
Pacific Warriors
2015
as Narrator
6.8
6.8
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
as Narrator
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6.8
L.I.E.
2001
as Big John Harrigan
6.7
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Rob Roy
1995
as Killearn
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The Boxer
1997
as Joe Hamill
6.7
6.7
RED
2010
as Ivan Simanov
6.7
6.7
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
6.7
6.7
The Ring
2002
as Richard Morgan
6.7
6.7
Iron Will
1994
as Angus McTeague
6.7
6.7
Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
6.7
6.7
Little Wing
2024
Executive Producer
6.7
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The Independent
2022
as Nick Booker
6.6
6.6
The Carer
2016
as Sir Michael
6.6
6.6
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
6.6
6.6
The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Douglas Baxter
6.6
6.6
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
6.5
6.5
The Water Horse
2007
as Old Angus
6.5
6.5
Super Troopers
2001
as John O'Hagen
6.5
6.5
Kiss the Girls
1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
6.5
6.5
RED 2
2013
as Ivan
6.5
6.5
Mending the Line
2023
as Ike Fletcher
6.5
6.5
King Lear
1983
as Burgundy
6.5
6.5
Anna
2013
as Sebastian
6.5
6.5
The Electric State
2025
as Popfly (voice)
6.4
6.4
For Love of the Game
1999
as Gary Wheeler
6.4
6.4
Red Eye
2005
as Joe Reisert
6.4
6.4
The Good Heart
2009
as Jacques
6.4
6.4
The Reckoning
2004
as Tobias
6.3
6.3
The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Rory MacNeil
6.2
6.2
Red
2008
as Avery Ludlow
6.2
6.2
Remember Me
2019
as Shane
6.2
6.2
Churchill
2017
as Winston Churchill
6.2
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The Escapist
2008
Executive Producer
6.2
6.2
Battle for Terra
2007
as General Hemmer (voice)
6.2
6.2
Forsaken
2015
as James McCurdy
6.1
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Ironclad
2011
as Albany
6.1
6.1
Shoot on Sight
2007
as Daniel Tennant
6.1
6.1
The Parenting
2025
as Frank
6.1
6.1
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Max
6.1
6.1
The Corruptor
1999
as Sean Wallace
6.1
6.1
The Last Right
2019
as Father Reilly
6.1
6.1
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Joseph Bell
6.0
6.0
Desperate Measures
1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
6.0
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Strange But True
2019
as Bill
6.0
6.0
Secret Weapon
1990
as Andrew Neil
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6.0
Food for Ravens
1997
as Aneurin Bevan
6.0
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Grushko
1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
6.0
6.0
Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Judge Freisler
6.0
6.0
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
6.0
6.0
Believe
2013
as Matt Busby
6.0
6.0
Glenrothan
2026
Producer
5.9
5.9
Super Troopers 2
2018
as John O'Hagen
5.9
5.9
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
as Owen Benjamin
5.9
5.9
Blood
2012
as Lenny Fairburn
5.8
5.8
The Campaign
2012
as Raymond
5.8
5.8
Merchants of Venus
1998
as Uncle Vladimir
5.8
5.8
Chain Reaction
1996
as Lyman Earl Collier
5.8
5.8
Pixels
2015
as Admiral Porter
5.8
5.8
Coriolanus
2011
as Menenius
5.8
5.8
Morgan
2016
as Jim Bryce
5.8
5.8
The Veteran
2011
as Gerry
5.7
5.7
Running with Scissors
2006
as Dr. Finch
5.7
5.7
Florence Nightingale
1985
as Dr. McGregor
5.7
5.7
The Ringer
2005
as Gary Barker
5.7
5.7
Separation
2021
as Rivers
5.6
5.6
Complicity
2000
as Inspector McDunn
5.6
5.6
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Glover
5.6
5.6
A Shot at Glory
2000
as Martin Smith
5.5
5.5
The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Minister Breteuil
5.5
5.5
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Director
5.5
5.5
Skelly
2024
as Grandpa
5.5
5.5
Blue/Orange
2005
as Dr. Robert Smith
5.4
5.4
The Glimmer Man
1996
as Mr. Smith
5.4
5.4
Poodle Springs
1998
as Clayton Blackstone
5.4
5.4
The Minus Man
1999
as Doug
5.4
5.4
Prince of Jutland
1994
as Aethelwine
5.3
5.3
Tell-Tale
2009
as Van Doren
5.3
5.3
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
as Drosselmeyer
5.3
5.3
Pretenders
2019
as Henry
5.2
5.2
Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Gilles
5.2
5.2
Exit Humanity
2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)
5.1
5.1
Quasi
2023
as Narrator (voice)
5.0
5.0
Mad About Mambo
2000
as Sidney McLoughlin
5.0
5.0
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hogan
5.0
5.0
Red Fox
1991
as Geoffrey Harrison
5.0
5.0
Bonnie
2022
as Self
5.0
5.0
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
as Narrator (voice)
5.0
5.0
As Good As Dead
2010
as Reverend Kalahan
4.9
4.9
The Anomaly
2014
as Dr. Langham
4.8
4.8
Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Chisolm
4.8
4.8
In Celebration
1975
as Steven Shaw
4.8
4.8
Sin
2003
as Captain Oakes
4.4
4.4
All at Sea
2012
as Wally
4.4
4.4
The Bay of Silence
2020
as Milton
4.3
4.3
Agent Crush
2008
as Spanners (voice)
4.3
4.3
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
as Lasar Opie
4.2
4.2
Lawrence After Arabia
2020
as Father (Voice)
4.0
4.0
Blumenthal
2013
as Harold Blumenthal
4.0
4.0
The Outsiders
2006
as Gabriel
3.6
3.6
The Key Man
2011
as Irving
3.0
3.0
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Jack Purves
2.8
2.8
Murder on the Moon
1989
as Voronov
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
as self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
On Expenses
2010
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012
as Old Man
The Cutter
1992
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
as Self
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
as Narrator
The Planets
TBA
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
as Narrator
Scotland In A Day
2014
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017
as Narrator
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
as Johann Sebastian Bach
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
as Dr. Morel
The Negotiator
1994
as Charlie King
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
as John Rebus
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017
as Himself
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
as Nelson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
as Narrator
The Biographer
2002
as Michael O'Mara
Home Cooking
1986
as Vic
Carry On Ken
2006
as Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
as Self
The Privilege
1982
as Young Laird
Deceptions
1992
as Carlton Heard
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
as Self
Macbeth
1992
as Macbeth
A Modern Magician
TBA
as The Voice
Murder by Numbers
2004
as Self
Shoot for the Sun
1987
as Dunny
The Glove
TBA
Ooh the Banter!
2022
as Self
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
as Himself
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
as Narrator (voice)
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
as Self
Wittgenstein's Poker
TBA
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
Dalhousie's Luck
1980
as Dalhousie
Killing Thyme
2015
as Norman
Old Pals
TBA
as Jimmy
The History of the British Police Force
1999
as Narrator (voice)
The Marbles
2025
as Self
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025
as AMR
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025
as Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Super Troopers 3
2026
as Capt. John O’Hagan
Seven Jewish Children
2025
Executive Producer
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