Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for leading performances on stage and television, as well as supporting roles in film. 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. Empire magazine awarded him the Empire Icon Award in 2006, and the UK Film Council named him one of the top 10 powerful British film stars in Hollywood in 2007. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jun 1, 1946 In Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 268
- First Appeared:
- In the movie MiP: The Journey Across the Universe
- Latest Project:
- Series Have I Got a Bit More News for You 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Electric State | (voice) | 2025 |
| Series | Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Himself - Panellist | 2025 |
| Movie | MiP: The Journey Across the Universe | Brian Cox (voice) | 2025 |
| Movie | Wittgenstein's Poker | Bertrand Russell (voice) | 2025 |
| Series | Amol Rajan Interviews | Self - Interviewed Guest | 2025 |
| Movie | The Planets | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | The Parenting | 2025 | |
| Movie | Glenrothan | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | A Modern Magician | The Voice | 2025 |
| Movie | The Glove | Unknown | 2025 |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Movie | That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2024-11-29 |
| Movie | Skelly | Grandpa | 2024-05-07 |
| Series | Unsinkable | Robert Dodds | 2024-07-10 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-11 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Movie | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
| Series | Made of Money with Brian Cox | 2023-09-23 | |
| Series | 007: Road to a Million | The Controller | 2023-11-10 |
| Series | Piers Morgan Uncensored | Self | 2022-04-25 |
| Series | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg | Self – Actor | 2022-09-04 |
| Movie | Ukraine: Answering the Call | Self | 2022-07-03 |
| Movie | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Ooh the Banter! | Self (archive footage) | 2022-12-31 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Series | Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live | Presenter | 2022-11-17 |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Series | Blade Runner: Black Lotus | Niander Wallace Sr. (voice) | 2021-11-14 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-01-02 |
| Movie | John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Series | Tomorrow's World: People of Science | Host | 2018-01-10 |
| Movie | Widdershins | voice | 2018-06-27 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Series | Back to Earth: Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2018-05-22 |
| Movie | Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation | Narrator | 2017-02-18 |
| Series | Brian Cox's Russia | Host | 2017-04-18 |
| Series | Carpool Karaoke: The Series | Self | 2017-08-08 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Movie | An Evening with Brian Cox | Himself | 2017-07-26 |
| Series | The Russell Howard Hour | Self | 2017-09-21 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC | Self | 2016-12-23 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Series | Medici: Masters of Florence | Bernardo Guadagni | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) | 2015-07-01 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Series | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Unknown | 2015-09-08 |
| Movie | Pacific Warriors | Narrator | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Series | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | God | 2014-04-27 |
| Series | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 2014-02-25 |
| Series | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 2014-02-17 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Series | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self | 2014-12-21 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Series | Shetland | Magnus Bain | 2013-03-10 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | The Science of Doctor Who | Self - Presenter | 2013-11-14 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Series | Addicted to Pleasure | Self - Host | 2012-11-25 |
| Series | Tooned | The Mechanic | 2012-07-08 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Series | A Touch of Cloth | Bill Ball | 2012-08-26 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Series | Celebrity Antiques Road Trip | Self - Participant | 2011-10-24 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Series | The Jonathan Ross Show | Self | 2011-09-03 |
| Movie | On Expenses | Unknown | 2010-02-23 |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | Brian Cox's Jute Journey | Self | 2009-10-05 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Self | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Carry on Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Movie | The Outsiders | Gabriel | 2006-10-03 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Series | The One Show | Self - Guest | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Japan's War In Colour | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
| Movie | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
| Series | Doctor Who | Sydney Newman | 2005-03-26 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Hitler in Colour | Narrator | 2005-04-30 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Series | Deadwood | Jack Langrishe | 2004-03-21 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | Self | 2004-09-13 |
| Series | Lost | Unknown | 2004-09-22 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 2003-02-21 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | 2003-11-25 | |
| Movie | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 2003-05-20 |
| Series | One Life | Unknown | 2003-09-24 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World | Narrator | 2002-11-19 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Series | Top Gear | Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car | 2002-10-20 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | The Biographer | Michael O'Mara | 2002-09-01 |
| Movie | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | Unknown | 2002-09-29 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Self | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Movie | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Series | Aqua Teen Hunger Force | Anubis (voice) | 2000-12-30 |
| Movie | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Series | The Daily Show | Self | 1996-07-22 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| Series | Superman: The Animated Series | Dr. Earl Garver (voice) | 1996-09-06 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | The Maltese Double Cross | Narrator (voice) | 1994-11-16 |
| Movie | The Negotiator | Charlie King | 1994-05-31 |
| Movie | Royal Deceit | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Series | Frasier | Harry Moon | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Series | Sharpe | Major Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | Deceptions | Carlton Heard | 1992-01-01 |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| Movie | The Cutter | 1992-08-10 | |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
| Series | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Macbeth (voice) | 1992-11-09 |
| Series | The Big Battalions | Edward Hoyland | 1992-11-19 |
| Series | Performance | The Director | 1991-02-22 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' | self | 1990-05-01 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| Series | Perfect Scoundrels | Father Amedy | 1990-04-22 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-05-09 |
| Movie | Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy | Self | 1989-12-07 |
| Movie | The Blasphemers' Banquet | Rev. Wallace (voice) | 1989-07-31 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Kostas Becker (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | The Modern World: Ten Great Writers | Henrik Ibsen (voice) | 1988-01-10 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Series | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest | 1988-09-05 |
| Series | Red Dwarf | The King | 1988-02-15 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
| Series | Inspector Morse | Michael Steppings | 1987-01-06 |
| Series | Acting | Unknown | 1987-08-28 |
| Movie | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
| Series | French & Saunders | King Lear | 1987-03-09 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| Series | Unnatural Causes | Vic | 1986-11-08 |
| Movie | Home Cooking | Vic | 1986-11-08 |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-07-05 |
| Movie | The Cantor of St Thomas's | Johann Sebastian Bach | 1985-04-07 |
| Movie | Pope John Paul II | Father Góra | 1984-04-22 |
| Movie | King Lear | Burgundy | 1983-04-03 |
| Movie | A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie | 1982-01-12 |
| Movie | The Privilege | Young Laird | 1982-01-01 |
| Series | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent LeClaire | 1980-03-12 |
| Series | Hammer House of Horror | Chuck | 1980-09-13 |
| Series | Question Time | Self - Panellist | 1979-09-25 |
| Series | Minder | Frank | 1979-10-29 |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Henry II of England | 1978-04-30 |
| Series | Out | McGrath | 1978-07-24 |
| Movie | Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | George Simpson | 1976-02-24 |
| Movie | In Celebration | Steven Shaw | 1975-03-17 |
| Movie | The Changeling | Alsemero | 1974-01-20 |
| Series | Van der Valk | Stefan Szabo | 1972-09-13 |
| Series | Great Performances | Self | 1971-01-28 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
| Series | Play for Today | Dr. Gillespie | 1970-10-15 |
| Series | Manhunt | Anton | 1970-01-02 |
| Movie | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |
| Movie | A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson | 1965-07-07 |