Brian Cox

Brian Cox

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 The...

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Braveheart

As Argyle Wallace

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The Ring

As Richard Morgan

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25th Hour

As James Brogan

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Troy

As King Agamemnon

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Poodle Springs

As Clayton Blackstone

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

As Action 12 Reporter (voice)

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Zodiac

As Melvin Belli

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The Bourne Supremacy

As Ward Abbott

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The Bourne Identity

As Ward Abbott

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The Independent

As Nick Booker

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Adaptation.

As Robert McKee

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The Good Heart

As Jacques

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Rushmore

As Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

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The Long Kiss Goodnight

As Dr. Nathan Waldman

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The Minus Man

As Doug

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Trick 'r Treat

As Mr. Kreeg

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Running with Scissors

As Dr. Finch

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Manhunter

As Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

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Red Eye

As Joe Reisert

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Rob Roy

As Killearn

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Iron Will

As Angus McTeague

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Complicity

As Inspector McDunn

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Chain Reaction

As Lyman Earl Collier

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Bug

As Cyr

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Kiss the Girls

As Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.

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The Corruptor

As Sean Wallace

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Desperate Measures

As Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

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The Reckoning

As Tobias

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The Ringer

As Gary Barker

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Red

As Avery Ludlow

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Tell-Tale

As Van Doren

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The Glimmer Man

As Mr. Smith

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As Good As Dead

As Reverend Kalahan

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X2

As William Stryker

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The Rookie

As Jim Morris Sr.

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The Escapist

As Frank Perry

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Mad About Mambo

As Sidney McLoughlin

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The Flying Scotsman

As Douglas Baxter

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An Interview with Brian Cox

As Himself

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Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

As Self

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Ironclad

As Albany

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Nicholas and Alexandra

As Trotsky

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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

As Green Dragon (voice)

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Battle for Terra

As General Hemmer (voice)

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RED

As Ivan Simanov

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The Boxer

As Joe Hamill

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Quasi

As Narrator (voice)

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Hidden Agenda

As Peter Kerrigan

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King Lear

As Burgundy

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Super Troopers

As John O'Hagen

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Japan's War In Colour

As Narrator

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The Maltese Double Cross

As Narrator (voice)

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L.I.E.

As Big John Harrigan

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Royal Deceit

As Aethelwine

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Longitude

As Lord Morton

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The Affair of the Necklace

As Minister Breteuil

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Sharpe's Eagle

As Major Michael Hogan

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Sharpe's Rifles

As Major Michael Hogan

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The Veteran

As Gerry

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The Secret of the Nutcracker

As Drosselmeyer

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The Water Horse

As Old Angus

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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

As Voiceover Narrator

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The Lost Language of Cranes

As Owen Benjamin

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Brian Cox's Jute Journey

As Self

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The Blasphemers' Banquet

As Rev. Wallace (voice)

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The Campaign

As Raymond

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Coriolanus

As Menenius

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The Key Man

As Irving

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The Parenting

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A Woman in Winter

As Dr. Hunt

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Her

As Alan Watts (voice)

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The Privilege

As Young Laird

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Strictly Sinatra

As Chisolm

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The Year of the Sex Olympics

As Lasar Opie

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Blood

As Lenny Fairburn

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In Celebration

As Steven Shaw

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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba

As Self

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Witness Against Hitler

As Judge Freisler

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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

As Self

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The Cloning of Joanna May

As Carl May

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Little Wing

As Jaan Vari

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An Adventure in Space and Time

As Sydney Newman

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On Expenses

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The Cutter

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I Missed My Mother's Funeral

As Old Man

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Six Characters in Search of An Author

As The Director

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The Curse of Edgar

As Edgar Hoover

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Hitler in Colour

As Narrator

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Anna

As Sebastian

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Inside 'Manhunter'

As Himself

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Believe

As Matt Busby

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Blumenthal

As Harold Blumenthal

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

As Helm Hammerhand (voice)

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RED 2

As Ivan

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Match Point

As Alec Hewett

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The Changeling

As Alsemero

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Ukraine: Answering the Call

As Self

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Deceptions

As Carlton Heard

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Pope John Paul II

As Father Góra

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Rise of the Planet of the Apes

As John Landon

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The Electric State

As Popfly (voice)

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A Modern Magician

As The Voice

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The Anomaly

As Dr. Langham

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger

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The Gospel of John

As Narrator (voice) – King James Version

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Murder by Numbers

As Self

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Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

As Self

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Shoot for the Sun

As Dunny

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The Glove

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Bonnie

As Self

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The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

As self

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Pixels

As Admiral Porter

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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

As Jack Purves

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Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

As Narrator (voice)

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Forsaken

As James McCurdy

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Exit Humanity

As Malcolm Young (voice)

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Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

As Glover

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That Christmas

As Santa (voice)

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The Planets

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Ooh the Banter!

As Self (archive footage)

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Agent Crush

As Spanners (voice)

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Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon

As Narrator

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Shoot on Sight

As Daniel Tennant

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Skelly

As Grandpa

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Saltwater

As George Beneventi

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Wittgenstein's Poker

As Bertrand Russell (voice)

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Sharpe: The Legend

As Hogan

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Churchill

As Winston Churchill

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The Carer

As Sir Michael

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Morgan

As Jim Bryce

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe

As Tommy Tilden

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For Love of the Game

As Gary Wheeler

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Murder on the Moon

As Voronov

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Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh

As Narrator

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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2

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Scotland In A Day

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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

As Joseph Bell

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Glenrothan

As Sandy

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Pretenders

As Henry

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Red Fox

As Geoffrey Harrison

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A Shot at Glory

As Martin Smith

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Food for Ravens

As Aneurin Bevan

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Blue/Orange

As Dr. Robert Smith

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Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

As Narrator

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Rat in the Skull

As Detective Inspector Nelson

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Pacific Warriors

As Narrator

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Merchants of Venus

As Uncle Vladimir

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Super Troopers 2

As John O'Hagen

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Sin

As Captain Oakes

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Strange but True

As Bill

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Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World

As Narrator

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Florence Nightingale

As Dr. McGregor

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Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie

As Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)

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The Etruscan Smile

As Rory MacNeil

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Kubrick by Candlelight

As The Narrator

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The Invention of Dr. Morel

As Dr. Morel

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Remember Me

As Shane

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Last Moment of Clarity

As Gilles

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

As Other Voices (voice)

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The Cantor of St Thomas's

As Johann Sebastian Bach

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The Bay of Silence

As Milton

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Wide Blue Yonder

As Wally

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Secret Weapon

As Andrew Neil

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The Last Right

As Father Reilly

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Lawrence After Arabia

As Father (Voice)

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Grushko

As Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

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The Negotiator

As Charlie King

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Widdershins

As voice

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Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

As Andrew Carnegie (voice)

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The Outsiders

As Gabriel

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John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues

As John Rebus

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An Evening with Brian Cox

As Himself

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A Knight in Tarnished Armour

As Nelson

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A Cotswold Death

As Dr. Gillespie

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The Biographer

As Michael O'Mara

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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

As George Simpson

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Separation

As Rivers

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Home Cooking

As Vic

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Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

As Narrator (voice)

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Carry on Ken

As Self

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Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

As Narrator

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Mending the Line

As Ike Fletcher

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Prisoner's Daughter

As Max

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Dalhousie's Luck

As Dalhousie

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French & Saunders

As King Lear

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Deadwood

As Jack Langrishe

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The Tony Danza Show

As Self

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The One Show

As Self - Guest

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Question Time

As Self - Panellist

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Minder

As Frank

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Inspector Morse

As Michael Steppings

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Richard & Judy

As Self

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Superman: The Animated Series

As Dr. Earl Garver (voice)

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Lost

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The Colbert Report

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The Big Battalions

As Edward Hoyland

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Nuremberg

As Herman Wilhelm Goering

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Red Dwarf

As The King

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Van der Valk

As Stefan Szabo

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The Devil's Crown

As Henry II of England

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One Life

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The Jonathan Ross Show

As Self

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The Take

As Ozzy

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Acting

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Carpool Karaoke: The Series

As Self

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Doctor Who

As Sydney Newman

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Hammer House of Horror

As Chuck

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A Touch of Cloth

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The Straits

As Harry Montebello

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Perfect Scoundrels

As Father Amedy

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Unnatural Causes

As Vic

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Performance

As The Director

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Shetland

As Magnus Bain

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The Colour of Magic

As Narrator

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Sharpe

As Major Hogan

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The Slap

As Manolis

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The Game

As Daddy

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Tooned

As The Mechanic

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Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live

As Presenter

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The Simpsons

As Kostas Becker (voice)

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War and Peace

As Mikhail Kutuzov

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Penny Dreadful

As Jared Talbot

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LIVE with Kelly and Mark

As Self - Guest

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Good Omens

As Death (voice)

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Top Gear

As Self

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Frasier

As Harry Moon

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Blade Runner: Black Lotus

As Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)

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The Graham Norton Show

As Self

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007: Road to a Million

As The Controller

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Thérèse Raquin

As Laurent LeClaire

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Late Night with Seth Meyers

As Self

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Bob Servant

As Bob Servant

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The Great War: The People's Story

As Rev. Andrew Clark

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Brian Cox's Russia

As Host

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The Sinking of the Laconia

As Captain Sharp

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Piers Morgan Uncensored

As Self

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

As Self

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Succession

As Logan Roy

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The Day of the Triffids

As Dennis Masen

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Made of Money with Brian Cox

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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

As Self

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Aqua Teen Hunger Force

As Anubis (voice)

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

As God

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The Russell Howard Hour

As Self

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The Daily Show

As Self

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Medici: Masters of Florence

As Bernardo Guadagni

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Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

As Self - Participant

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Manhunt

As Anton

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Longitude

As Lord Morton

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Have I Got a Bit More News for You

As Himself - Panellist

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Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

As Self – Actor

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Addicted to Pleasure

As Self - Host

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Real Time with Bill Maher

As Self

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

As Macbeth (voice)

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Play for Today

As Dr. Gillespie

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The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

As Henrik Ibsen (voice)

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Unsinkable

As Robert Dodds

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Amol Rajan Interviews

As Self - Interviewed Guest

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BBC Play of the Month

As Alsemero

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Great Performances

As Self

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Out

As McGrath

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Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius

As Self