Brian Cox

Personal Info

Birthday

June 1, 1946

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Dundee, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

Brian Denis Cox

Brian Cox CBE

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Brian Cox

Biography

Brian Denis Cox CBE 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.

Known For

The Simpsons

Frasier

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Shetland

Succession

Minder

Red Dwarf

Play for Today

Filmography

2025
The Parenting
as Frank
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
2024
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
Skelly
as Grandpa
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
2022
Ooh the Banter!
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Bonnie
as Self
The Independent
as Nick Booker
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
2021
Separation
as Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
2020
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
2019
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
Strange But True
as Bill
Pretenders
as Henry
Remember Me
as Shane
2018
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
Widdershins
as voice
Super Troopers 2
as John O'Hagen
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
2017
An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator
2016
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
The Carer
as Sir Michael
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
2015
Killing Thyme
as Norman
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2014
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
2013
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
Anna
as Sebastian
Believe
as Matt Busby
Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
RED 2
as Ivan
2012
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
The Campaign
as Raymond
Wide Blue Yonder
as Wally
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
2011
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
The Veteran
as Gerry
Ironclad
as Albany
The Key Man
as Irving
Coriolanus
as Menenius
2010
RED
as Ivan Simanov
As Good As Dead
as Reverend Kalahan
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
The Good Heart
as Jacques
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
2008
Red
as Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
2007
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
2006
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
The Outsiders
as Gabriel
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
Carry On Ken
as Self
2005
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
Troy
as King Agamemnon
Murder by Numbers
as Self
The Reckoning
as Tobias
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
X2
as William Stryker
Sin
as Captain Oakes
2002
25th Hour
as James Brogan
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
as Narrator
The Ring
as Richard Morgan
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
Bug
as Cyr
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
2001
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
Super Troopers
as John O'Hagen
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
2000
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
1999
The History of the British Police Force
as Narrator (voice)
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
The Minus Man
as Doug
1998
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1997
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
1995
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
as Killearn
1994
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
1993
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
1992
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
Macbeth
as Macbeth
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
1991
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
1990
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
1989
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
1988
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
1987
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
1986
Home Cooking
as Vic
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1985
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
1984
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
1983
King Lear
as Burgundy
1982
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
The Privilege
as Young Laird
1980
Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
1976
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
1975
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
1974
The Changeling
as Alsemero
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
1968
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
1965
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson