Brian Cox

ActorDirectorProducerProduction Jun 1 (age 79) Dundee, Scotland, UK 1964–2026 (62 year career)

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Biography

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 L…

Known For

Film

Her

Alan Watts (voice)

Film

Braveheart

Argyle Wallace

Film

Zodiac

Melvin Belli

Film

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

John Landon

Film

The Bourne Identity

Ward Abbott

Film

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Action 12 Reporter (voice)

Film

The Bourne Ultimatum

Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film

Troy

King Agamemnon

Filmography

Acting (293)

Movies (198)

Glenrothan

2026 Upcoming

as Sandy

Apr 17

Super Troopers 3

2026 Upcoming

as Capt. John O’Hagan

Aug 6

The Electric State

2025

as Popfly (voice)

6.5

AMR: Dying to Change the World

2025

as AMR

The Parenting

2025

as Frank

6.0

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

2025

as Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)

The Marbles

2025

as Self - Interviewee

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

2024

as Helm Hammerhand (voice)

That Christmas

as Santa (voice)

Little Wing

as Jaan Vari

Skelly

as Grandpa

An Interview with Brian Cox

2023

as Himself

Prisoner's Daughter

as Max

Quasi

as Narrator (voice)

Mending the Line

as Ike Fletcher

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

2023

as Narrator (voice)

Bonnie

as Self

The Independent

as Nick Booker

Ukraine: Answering the Call

2022

as Self

Ooh the Banter!

2022

as Self

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

as Self

Separation

as Rivers

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

as Narrator (voice)

The Bay of Silence

as Milton

Last Moment of Clarity

2020

as Gilles

5.2

Lawrence After Arabia

2020

as Father (Voice)

4.2

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues

2020

as John Rebus

Remember Me

as Shane

Strange but True

as Bill

Pretenders

as Henry

The Last Right

as Father Reilly

Super Troopers 2

as John O'Hagen

The Etruscan Smile

as Rory MacNeil

Widdershins

as voice

Kubrick by Candlelight

2018

as The Narrator

7.0

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie

2017

as Conrad / Crunch (voice)

8.3

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

2017

as Narrator

Churchill

2017

as Winston Churchill

6.2

An Evening with Brian Cox

2017

as Himself

Morgan

2016

as Jim Bryce

5.8

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

as Tommy Tilden

The Carer

as Sir Michael

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

2016

as Self

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

2016

as Self

Pixels

as Admiral Porter

Forsaken

as James McCurdy

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

2015

as Andrew Carnegie (voice)

6.7

Killing Thyme

2015

as Norman

Pacific Warriors

as Narrator

Scotland In A Day

The Anomaly

as Dr. Langham

The Gospel of John

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

7.0

Her

2013

as Alan Watts (voice)

RED 2

as Ivan

Anna

as Sebastian

Blumenthal

as Harold Blumenthal

Believe

as Matt Busby

An Adventure in Space and Time

as Sydney Newman

The Curse of Edgar

as Edgar Hoover

The Campaign

as Raymond

Blood

as Lenny Fairburn

All at Sea

as Wally

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

2012

as Old Man

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

as John Landon

Ironclad

as Albany

Coriolanus

as Menenius

The Veteran

as Gerry

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

2011

as Glover

5.6

Exit Humanity

2011

as Malcolm Young (voice)

The Key Man

as Irving

RED

as Ivan Simanov

As Good As Dead

as Reverend Kalahan

On Expenses

Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Action 12 Reporter (voice)

7.8

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

2009

as Green Dragon (voice)

Tell-Tale

as Van Doren

The Good Heart

as Jacques

Brian Cox's Jute Journey

2009

as Self

Red

as Avery Ludlow

The Escapist

as Frank Perry

Agent Crush

as Spanners (voice)

Zodiac

as Melvin Belli

The Bourne Ultimatum

as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.4

The Secret of the Nutcracker

as Drosselmeyer

Trick 'r Treat

as Mr. Kreeg

Battle for Terra

as General Hemmer (voice)

The Water Horse

as Old Angus

Shoot on Sight

as Daniel Tennant

A Woman in Winter

as Dr. Hunt

Carry On Ken

as Self

The Flying Scotsman

as Douglas Baxter

The Outsiders

as Gabriel

Running with Scissors

as Dr. Finch

Match Point

as Alec Hewett

Red Eye

as Joe Reisert

The Ringer

as Gary Barker

Blue/Orange

as Dr. Robert Smith

Hitler in Colour

as Narrator

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005

as Joseph Bell

6.1

Japan's War in Colour

2005

as Self - Narrator (voice)

8.0

Danny Phantom: Reign Storm

2005

as Pariah Dark (Voice)

Troy

as King Agamemnon

The Bourne Supremacy

as Ward Abbott

The Reckoning

as Tobias

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

as Other Voices (voice)

7.1

Murder by Numbers

2004

as Self

Sin

2003

as Captain Oakes

4.8

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2

as Self

as William Stryker

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

as Self

The Bourne Identity

as Ward Abbott

The Ring

as Richard Morgan

Adaptation.

as Robert McKee

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh

2002

as Narrator

25th Hour

2002

as James Brogan

7.3

The Biographer

2002

as Michael O'Mara

The Rookie

as Jim Morris Sr.

Bug

as Cyr

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon

2002

as Narrator

6.8

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

2002

as Self

6.9

Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World

2002

as Narrator

7.0

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

2002

as Narrator

Super Troopers

as John O'Hagen

L.I.E.

as Big John Harrigan

The Affair of the Necklace

as Minister Breteuil

Strictly Sinatra

as Chisolm

Inside 'Manhunter'

as Himself

A Shot at Glory

as Martin Smith

Longitude

as Lord Morton

The Invention of Dr. Morel

2000

as Dr. Morel

Saltwater

2000

as George Beneventi

6.9

The Making of 'Rushmore'

as Self

Complicity

as Inspector McDunn

Mad About Mambo

as Sidney McLoughlin

The Minus Man

as Doug

For Love of the Game

as Gary Wheeler

The Corruptor

as Sean Wallace

The History of the British Police Force

1999

as Narrator (voice)

Rushmore

1998

as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

7.4

Poodle Springs

1998

as Clayton Blackstone

5.4

Desperate Measures

1998

as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

Merchants of Venus

as Uncle Vladimir

Kiss the Girls

as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD

The Boxer

as Joe Hamill

Sharpe: The Legend

as Hogan

Food for Ravens

as Aneurin Bevan

Chain Reaction

as Lyman Earl Collier

5.8

The Long Kiss Goodnight

1996

as Dr. Nathan Waldman

6.6

The Glimmer Man

1996

as Mr. Smith

5.4

Witness Against Hitler

as Judge Freisler

Braveheart

as Argyle Wallace

Rob Roy

as Killearn

Grushko

as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

6.0

The Negotiator

1994

as Charlie King

Iron Will

as Angus McTeague

Prince of Jutland

as Aethelwine

The Maltese Double Cross

1994

as Narrator (voice)

7.0

Sharpe's Rifles

1993

as Major Michael Hogan

6.7

Sharpe's Eagle

1993

as Major Michael Hogan

7.1

The Lost Language of Cranes

1992

as Owen Benjamin

5.9

Deceptions

1992

as Carlton Heard

Macbeth

1992

as Macbeth

Six Characters in Search of An Author

1992

as The Director

5.5

The Cloning of Joanna May

as Carl May

The Cutter

Red Fox

as Geoffrey Harrison

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

1990

as self

Hidden Agenda

as Peter Kerrigan

Secret Weapon

as Andrew Neil

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

1989

as Self

The Blasphemers' Banquet

1989

as Rev. Wallace (voice)

Murder on the Moon

1989

as Voronov

2.8

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

1988

as Voiceover Narrator

7.6

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

1988

as Jack Purves

3.0

Shoot for the Sun

1987

as Dunny

Rat in the Skull

1987

as Detective Inspector Nelson

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

1987

as Narrator

Home Cooking

1986

as Vic

Manhunter

1986

as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

7.0

Florence Nightingale

1985

as Dr. McGregor

5.7

The Cantor of St Thomas's

1985

as Johann Sebastian Bach

Pope John Paul II

as Father Góra

King Lear

as Burgundy

A Cotswold Death

as Dr. Gillespie

The Privilege

as Young Laird

Dalhousie's Luck

1980

as Dalhousie

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

as George Simpson

In Celebration

as Steven Shaw

The Changeling

as Alsemero

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971

as Trotsky

6.9

The Year of the Sex Olympics

1968

as Lasar Opie

4.3

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

1965

as Nelson

Old Pals

as Jimmy

Wittgenstein's Poker

as Bertrand Russell (voice)

The Planets

A Modern Magician

as The Voice

The Glove

The Sunrise File

as Oded Ailam (voice)

Television (95)

VE Day 80

as Self

Unsinkable

as Robert Dodds

007: Road to a Million

2023

as The Controller

7.1

Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

2023

as Self

5.3

Made of Money with Brian Cox

2023

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

2022

as Self – Actor

2.8

Remembers…

2022

Piers Morgan Uncensored

2022

as Self

2.3

Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live

2022

as Presenter

6.0

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

2021

as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)

7.1

Amol Rajan Interviews

2021

as Self - Interviewed Guest

Good Omens

as Death (voice)

Succession

as Logan Roy

Carpool Karaoke: The Series

2017

as Self

6.1

The Russell Howard Hour

2017

as Self

8.0

Brian Cox's Russia

2017

as Host

Medici: Masters of Florence

as Bernardo Guadagni

War and Peace

as Mikhail Kutuzov

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Slap

as Manolis

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014

as Self

5.9

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014

as Self

5.2

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

2014

as God

7.8

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

as Self

Penny Dreadful

as Jared Talbot

The Game

as Daddy

The Great War: The People's Story

as Rev. Andrew Clark

The Last Leg

as Self

Shetland

as Magnus Bain

Bob Servant

as Bob Servant

A Touch of Cloth

A Touch of Cloth

as Bill Ball

The Straits

as Harry Montebello

Tooned

as The Mechanic

Addicted to Pleasure

2012

as Self - Host

The Jonathan Ross Show

2011

as Self

5.3

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

2011

as Self - Participant

5.0

The Sinking of the Laconia

2011

as Captain Sharp

6.4

Kings

2009

as King Vesper Abaddon

7.5

The Day of the Triffids

as Dennis Masen

The Take

as Ozzy

The Colour of Magic

as Narrator

The Graham Norton Show

2007

as Self

7.2

M.I. High

2007

as Voice of the Mastermind

The One Show

as Self - Guest

Doctor Who

as Sydney Newman

The Colbert Report

Lost

Deadwood

as Jack Langrishe

The Tony Danza Show

as Self

Real Time with Bill Maher

as Self

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

One Life

Top Gear

as Self

Masters of Darkness

as Narrator

Richard & Judy

2001

as Self

2.9

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

2000

as Anubis (voice)

7.5

Nuremberg

2000

as Herman Wilhelm Goering

7.4

Longitude

2000

as Lord Morton

7.0

I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

as Narrator

The Daily Show

as Self

Superman: The Animated Series

1996

as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)

Frasier

as Harry Moon

Sharpe

as Major Hogan

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Macbeth (voice)

The Big Battalions

as Edward Hoyland

Performance

as The Director

Have I Got News for You

as Self

Perfect Scoundrels

as Father Amedy

The Simpsons

as Kostas Becker (voice)

8.0

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

as Self - Guest

Red Dwarf

as The King

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

1988

as Henrik Ibsen (voice)

Inspector Morse

as Michael Steppings

French & Saunders

as King Lear

Acting

Unnatural Causes

as Vic

House on the Hill

as Leon Douglas

Hammer House of Horror

as Chuck

Therese Raquin

as Laurent LeClaire

Minder

as Frank

Question Time

as Self - Panellist

Out

as McGrath

The Devil's Crown

as Henry II

Target

as Billy Voss

Playhouse

as Dalhousie

Churchill's People

as William Wallace

Van der Valk

as Stefan Szabo

Great Performances

as Self - Narration (voice)

Play for Today

as Dr. Gillespie

Manhunt

as Anton

The Gamblers

as Mickey

BBC Play of the Month

as Alsemero

Theatre 625

as Lasar Opie

Have I Got a Bit More News for You

as Himself - Panellist

7.0

Crew (7)

Movies (6)

Glenrothan

2026 Upcoming

Director

Apr 17

Glenrothan

2026 Upcoming

Producer

Apr 17

Seven Jewish Children

2025

Executive Producer

Little Wing

Executive Producer

Red

Associate Producer

The Escapist

Executive Producer

Television (1)

1997

Director

8.0