Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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.
Known For
| Birth Location | Dundee, Scotland, UK |
|---|---|
| Born | 1946-06-01 |
Movies
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2024
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
2024
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
2023
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
2023
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
2023
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
2023
Ooh the Banter!
as Self (archive footage)
2022
2022
Bonnie
as Self
2022
The Independent
as Nick Booker
2022
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
2022
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Separation
as Rivers
2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
2021
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
2020
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
2020
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
2020
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
2020
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
2019
Strange but True
as Bill
2019
Pretenders
as Henry
2019
Remember Me
as Shane
2019
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
2019
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
2018
Widdershins
as voice
2018
Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen
2018
An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
2017
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
2017
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
2017
2017
2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
2016
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
2016
The Carer
as Sir Michael
2016
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
2015
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
2015
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
2015
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2015
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014
2014
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past
as William Stryker (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
2013
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
2013
Anna
as Sebastian
2013
Believe
as Matt Busby
2013
Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
2013
RED 2
as Ivan
2013
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
2012
The Campaign
as Raymond
2012
Wide Blue Yonder
as Wally
2012
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
2012
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
2011
The Veteran
as Gerry
2011
Ironclad
as Albany
2011
The Key Man
as Irving
2011
Coriolanus
as Menenius
2011
RED
as Ivan Simanov
2010
2010
As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan
2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2009
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
2009
The Good Heart
as Jacques
2009
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
2009
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
2008
Red
as Avery Ludlow
2008
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
2008
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
2008
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
2007
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
2007
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
2007
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
2007
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
2007
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
2007
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
2006
The Outsiders
as Gabriel
2006
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
2006
Carry on Ken
as Self
2006
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
2005
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
2005
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
2005
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
2005
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
2005
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
2005
Japan's War In Colour
as Narrator
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
2004
Troy
as King Agamemnon
2004
Murder by Numbers
as Self
2004
The Reckoning
as Tobias
2004
2003
X2
as William Stryker
2003
Sin
as Captain Oakes
2003
25th Hour
as James Brogan
2002
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
2002
2002
The Ring
as Richard Morgan
2002
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
2002
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
2002
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
2002
Bug
as Cyr
2002
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
2002
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
2002
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
2001
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
2001
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
2001
Super Troopers
as John O'Hagen
2001
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
2001
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
2000
Nuremberg
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
2000
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
2000
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
2000
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
2000
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
2000
Longitude
as Lord Morton
2000
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
1999
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
1999
The Minus Man
as Doug
1999
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1998
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
1998
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
1998
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1998
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
1997
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
1997
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
1997
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1996
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
1996
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
1996
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
1996
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
1995
Rob Roy
as Killearn
1995
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
1994
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
1994
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994
Royal Deceit
as Aethelwine
1994
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
1994
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
1993
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
1993
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
1992
1992
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
1992
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
1992
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
1992
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
1991
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
1990
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
1990
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
1990
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
1989
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
1989
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
1988
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
1988
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
1987
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
1987
Home Cooking
as Vic
1986
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1986
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
1985
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
1985
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
1984
King Lear
as Burgundy
1983
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
1982
The Privilege
as Young Laird
1982
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
1976
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
1975
The Changeling
as Alsemero
1974
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
1971
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
1968
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson
1965
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
-
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
-
Movies
Little Wing
Executive Producer
2024
Red
Associate Producer
2008
The Escapist
Executive Producer
2008
Riff Raff
Executive Producer
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