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Brian Cox
Born · June 1, 1946 (78 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland, UK
Bio
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Quasi
Narrator (voice)
5.2
2023
An Interview with Brian Cox
Himself
0.0
2023
The Independent
Nick Booker
6.8
2022
The Campaign
Raymond
5.8
2012
The Veteran
Gerry
5.7
2011
Ironclad
Albany
6.2
2011
The Key Man
Irving
4.0
2011
Coriolanus
Menenius
5.9
2011
RED
Ivan Simanov
6.7
2010
As Good As Dead
Reverend Kalahan
5.0
2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
7.8
2009
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Self
0.0
2009
The Good Heart
Jacques
6.2
2009
Tell-Tale
Van Doren
5.4
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Green Dragon (voice)
7.7
2009
Red
Avery Ludlow
6.2
2008
The Escapist
Frank Perry
6.2
2008
The Water Horse
Old Angus
6.5
2007
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Drosselmeyer
5.6
2007
Trick 'r Treat
Mr. Kreeg
7.0
2007
Battle for Terra
General Hemmer (voice)
6.1
2007
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
7.5
2007
Running with Scissors
Dr. Finch
5.8
2006
The Flying Scotsman
Douglas Baxter
6.7
2006
The Ringer
Gary Barker
5.7
2005
Red Eye
Joe Reisert
6.4
2005
Japan's War In Colour
Narrator
8.0
2005
The Bourne Supremacy
Ward Abbott
7.3
2004
Troy
King Agamemnon
7.2
2004
The Reckoning
Tobias
6.4
2004
X2
William Stryker
7.0
2003
25th Hour
James Brogan
7.3
2002
Adaptation.
Robert McKee
7.4
2002
The Ring
Richard Morgan
6.7
2002
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
7.5
2002
The Rookie
Jim Morris Sr.
6.8
2002
Bug
Cyr
7.2
2002
The Affair of the Necklace
Minister Breteuil
5.6
2001
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
6.7
2001
Super Troopers
John O'Hagen
6.6
2001
Complicity
Inspector McDunn
5.9
2000
Mad About Mambo
Sidney McLoughlin
5.1
2000
Longitude
Lord Morton
7.3
2000
The Corruptor
Sean Wallace
6.1
1999
The Minus Man
Doug
5.4
1999
Rushmore
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
7.4
1998
Poodle Springs
Clayton Blackstone
5.4
1998
Desperate Measures
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
6.0
1998
The Boxer
Joe Hamill
6.7
1997
Kiss the Girls
Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
6.5
1997
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dr. Nathan Waldman
6.6
1996
The Glimmer Man
Mr. Smith
5.4
1996
Chain Reaction
Lyman Earl Collier
5.7
1996
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
7.9
1995
Rob Roy
Killearn
6.7
1995
The Maltese Double Cross
Narrator (voice)
7.0
1994
Royal Deceit
Aethelwine
5.6
1994
Iron Will
Angus McTeague
6.7
1994
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
7.1
1993
Sharpe's Rifles
Major Michael Hogan
6.6
1993
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
6.2
1992
Hidden Agenda
Peter Kerrigan
6.9
1990
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Self
0.0
1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Rev. Wallace (voice)
0.0
1989
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Voiceover Narrator
7.4
1988
Manhunter
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
7.0
1986
King Lear
Burgundy
6.5
1983
Nicholas and Alexandra
Trotsky
6.9
1971
The Parenting
0.0
The Electric State
Popfly (voice)
0.0
2025
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
6.5
2024
Little Wing
Jaan Vari
6.8
2024
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
7.6
2022
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Self
0.0
2022
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
7.9
2013
An Adventure in Space and Time
Sydney Newman
7.7
2013
The Curse of Edgar
Edgar Hoover
7.2
2013
Anna
Sebastian
6.5
2013
Believe
Matt Busby
6.1
2013
Blumenthal
Harold Blumenthal
0.0
2013
RED 2
Ivan
6.5
2013
Blood
Lenny Fairburn
5.9
2012
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Old Man
0.0
2012
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
7.3
2011
On Expenses
0.0
2010
A Woman in Winter
Dr. Hunt
7.7
2007
Match Point
Alec Hewett
7.4
2005
Hitler in Colour
Narrator
8.0
2005
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
7.3
2003
Strictly Sinatra
Chisolm
4.7
2001
Inside 'Manhunter'
Himself
7.0
2001
Witness Against Hitler
Judge Freisler
6.0
1996
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Director
1.0
1992
The Cutter
0.0
1992
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May
7.0
1992
Deceptions
Carlton Heard
0.0
1992
Pope John Paul II
Father Góra
8.0
1984
The Privilege
Young Laird
0.0
1982
In Celebration
Steven Shaw
4.9
1975
The Changeling
Alsemero
7.0
1974
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lasar Opie
5.3
1968
A Modern Magician
The Voice
0.0
That Christmas
Santa (voice)
7.4
2024
Skelly
Grandpa
5.0
2024
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Narrator (voice)
0.0
2023
Ooh the Banter!
Self (archive footage)
0.0
2022
Bonnie
Self
3.0
2022
Churchill
Winston Churchill
6.2
2017
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
0.0
2016
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tommy Tilden
6.8
2016
Morgan
Jim Bryce
5.8
2016
The Carer
Sir Michael
6.7
2016
Forsaken
James McCurdy
6.1
2015
Pixels
Admiral Porter
5.7
2015
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
7.3
2014
Scotland In A Day
0.0
2014
The Anomaly
Dr. Langham
4.9
2014
Exit Humanity
Malcolm Young (voice)
5.2
2011
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Glover
5.5
2011
Shoot on Sight
Daniel Tennant
6.3
2008
Agent Crush
Spanners (voice)
6.0
2008
Murder by Numbers
Self
0.0
2004
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
8.0
2003
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
7.0
2002
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Narrator
0.0
2002
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Narrator
6.8
2002
Saltwater
George Beneventi
7.1
2000
For Love of the Game
Gary Wheeler
6.5
1999
Sharpe: The Legend
Hogan
6.0
1997
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
self
0.0
1990
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Jack Purves
0.0
1988
Shoot for the Sun
Dunny
0.0
1987
The Glove
0.0
The Planets
0.0
Wittgenstein's Poker
Bertrand Russell (voice)
0.0
Unsinkable
Robert Dodds · (1 episode)
10.0
2024
Prisoner's Daughter
Max
6.3
2023
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Bell
6.1
2005
Glenrothan
Sandy
0.0
007: Road to a Million
The Controller · (8 episodes)
6.7
2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Self · (3 episodes)
5.3
2023
Made of Money with Brian Cox
(2 episodes)
0.0
2023
Mending the Line
Ike Fletcher
6.4
2023
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
Presenter · (2 episodes)
0.0
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Self – Actor · (6 episodes)
2.7
2022
Piers Morgan Uncensored
Self · (2 episodes)
2.8
2022
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
Niander Wallace Sr. (voice) · (5 episodes)
7.1
2021
Separation
Rivers
5.7
2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Narrator (voice)
5.0
2021
The Bay of Silence
Milton
4.5
2020
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
John Rebus
0.0
2020
Last Moment of Clarity
Gilles
5.2
2020
Lawrence After Arabia
Father (Voice)
4.2
2020
The Last Right
Father Reilly
6.2
2019
Strange but True
Bill
6.0
2019
Pretenders
Henry
5.6
2019
Remember Me
Shane
6.3
2019
Good Omens
Death (voice) · (6 episodes)
8.0
2019
Kubrick by Candlelight
The Narrator
7.0
2018
Widdershins
voice
7.4
2018
Succession
Logan Roy · (39 episodes)
8.3
2018
Super Troopers 2
John O'Hagen
5.9
2018
The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil
6.5
2018
The Russell Howard Hour
Self · (1 episode)
8.0
2017
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
Self · (1 episode)
5.9
2017
An Evening with Brian Cox
Himself
0.0
2017
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
8.6
2017
Brian Cox's Russia
Host · (2 episodes)
0.0
2017
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Narrator
0.0
2017
Medici: Masters of Florence
Bernardo Guadagni · (8 episodes)
7.8
2016
War and Peace
Mikhail Kutuzov · (6 episodes)
7.6
2016
Pacific Warriors
Narrator
6.8
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
(1 episode)
6.6
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (3 episodes)
6.6
2015
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
6.7
2015
The Slap
Manolis · (8 episodes)
6.1
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self · (1 episode)
4.4
2014
The Game
Daddy · (6 episodes)
7.4
2014
The Great War: The People's Story
Rev. Andrew Clark · (1 episode)
6.1
2014
Penny Dreadful
Jared Talbot · (2 episodes)
7.8
2014
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
God · (1 episode)
7.9
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (2 episodes)
5.5
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (2 episodes)
5.8
2014
Shetland
Magnus Bain · (2 episodes)
7.5
2013
The Last Leg
Self · (1 episode)
5.3
2013
Bob Servant
Bob Servant · (9 episodes)
6.0
2013
Addicted to Pleasure
Self - Host · (4 episodes)
0.0
2012
A Touch of Cloth
(0 episode)
7.4
2012
A Touch of Cloth
Bill Ball · (1 episode)
7.4
2012
Tooned
The Mechanic · (8 episodes)
0.0
2012
Wide Blue Yonder
Wally
5.0
2012
The Straits
Harry Montebello · (10 episodes)
7.3
2012
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Self - Participant · (1 episode)
5.0
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
Self · (1 episode)
4.8
2011
The Sinking of the Laconia
Captain Sharp · (2 episodes)
6.3
2011
The Day of the Triffids
Dennis Masen · (2 episodes)
5.9
2009
The Take
Ozzy · (4 episodes)
7.6
2009
The Colour of Magic
Narrator · (2 episodes)
6.7
2008
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2007
The Outsiders
Gabriel
4.0
2006
The One Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
4.6
2006
Carry on Ken
Self
0.0
2006
The Colbert Report
(1 episode)
6.8
2005
Doctor Who
Sydney Newman · (1 episode)
7.5
2005
Blue/Orange
Dr. Robert Smith
5.5
2005
Lost
(1 episode)
7.9
2004
The Tony Danza Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.1
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
7.1
2004
Deadwood
Jack Langrishe · (9 episodes)
8.1
2004
One Life
(1 episode)
0.0
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
2003
Sin
Captain Oakes
4.9
2003
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
Narrator
6.0
2002
Top Gear
Self · (2 episodes)
7.5
2002
The Biographer
Michael O'Mara
0.0
2002
Richard & Judy
Self · (2 episodes)
3.1
2001
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Anubis (voice) · (1 episode)
7.5
2000
Nuremberg
Herman Wilhelm Goering · (2 episodes)
7.5
2000
A Shot at Glory
Martin Smith
5.5
2000
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Dr. Morel
0.0
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
6.0
2000
Longitude
Lord Morton · (2 episodes)
7.0
2000
Merchants of Venus
Uncle Vladimir
7.2
1998
Food for Ravens
Aneurin Bevan
6.0
1997
Superman: The Animated Series
Dr. Earl Garver (voice) · (1 episode)
7.5
1996
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
6.4
1996
The Negotiator
Charlie King
0.0
1994
Grushko
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
6.0
1994
Frasier
Harry Moon · (2 episodes)
7.7
1993
Sharpe
Major Hogan · (2 episodes)
7.8
1993
The Big Battalions
Edward Hoyland · (5 episodes)
6.0
1992
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
Macbeth (voice) · (1 episode)
6.8
1992
Red Fox
Geoffrey Harrison
5.0
1991
Performance
The Director · (1 episode)
6.0
1991
Perfect Scoundrels
Father Amedy · (1 episode)
6.0
1990
Secret Weapon
Andrew Neil
6.0
1990
The Simpsons
Kostas Becker (voice) · (2 episodes)
8.0
1989
Murder on the Moon
Voronov
3.2
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
5.2
1988
Red Dwarf
The King · (1 episode)
8.0
1988
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
Henrik Ibsen (voice) · (1 episode)
0.0
1988
Acting
(1 episode)
0.0
1987
French & Saunders
King Lear · (1 episode)
7.5
1987
Inspector Morse
Michael Steppings · (1 episode)
7.8
1987
Rat in the Skull
Detective Inspector Nelson
0.0
1987
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Narrator
0.0
1987
Home Cooking
Vic
0.0
1986
Unnatural Causes
Vic · (1 episode)
5.5
1986
Florence Nightingale
Dr. McGregor
5.5
1985
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Johann Sebastian Bach
0.0
1985
A Cotswold Death
Dr. Gillespie
7.0
1982
Hammer House of Horror
Chuck · (1 episode)
7.1
1980
Dalhousie's Luck
Dalhousie
0.0
1980
Therese Raquin
Laurent · (3 episodes)
5.9
1980
Minder
Frank · (1 episode)
6.8
1979
Question Time
Self - Panellist · (5 episodes)
5.0
1979
Out
McGrath · (3 episodes)
7.0
1978
The Devil's Crown
Henry II of England · (13 episodes)
7.5
1978
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
George Simpson
7.0
1976
Van der Valk
Stefan Szabo · (1 episode)
5.8
1972
Play for Today
Dr. Gillespie · (1 episode)
6.1
1970
Manhunt
Anton · (3 episodes)
6.5
1970
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
Himself - Panellist · (1 episode)
7.0
Amol Rajan Interviews
Self - Interviewed Guest · (1 episode)
0.0
Great Performances
Self · (1 episode)
5.2
1971
BBC Play of the Month
Alsemero · (1 episode)
5.0
1965
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Nelson
0.0
1965