Brian Denis Cox CBE (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 Th...
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Braveheart
As Argyle Wallace
The Ring
As Richard Morgan
25th Hour
As James Brogan
Troy
As King Agamemnon
Poodle Springs
As Clayton Blackstone
Fantastic Mr. Fox
As Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Zodiac
As Melvin Belli
The Bourne Identity
As Ward Abbott
The Bourne Supremacy
As Ward Abbott
The Independent
As Nick Booker
Adaptation.
As Robert McKee
The Good Heart
As Jacques
Rushmore
As Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
The Long Kiss Goodnight
As Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Minus Man
As Doug
Trick 'r Treat
As Mr. Kreeg
Running with Scissors
As Dr. Finch
Manhunter
As Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Red Eye
As Joe Reisert
Rob Roy
As Killearn
Iron Will
As Angus McTeague
Complicity
As Inspector McDunn
Chain Reaction
As Lyman Earl Collier
Bug
As Cyr
Kiss the Girls
As Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Corruptor
As Sean Wallace
Desperate Measures
As Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Reckoning
As Tobias
The Ringer
As Gary Barker
Red
As Avery Ludlow
Tell-Tale
As Van Doren
The Glimmer Man
As Mr. Smith
As Good As Dead
As Reverend Kalahan
X2
As William Stryker
The Rookie
As Jim Morris Sr.
The Escapist
As Frank Perry
Mad About Mambo
As Sidney McLoughlin
The Flying Scotsman
As Douglas Baxter
An Interview with Brian Cox
As Himself
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
As Self
Ironclad
As Albany
Nicholas and Alexandra
As Trotsky
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
As Green Dragon (voice)
Battle for Terra
As General Hemmer (voice)
RED
As Ivan Simanov
The Boxer
As Joe Hamill
Quasi
As Narrator (voice)
Hidden Agenda
As Peter Kerrigan
King Lear
As Burgundy
Super Troopers
As John O'Hagen
Japan's War In Colour
As Narrator
The Maltese Double Cross
As Narrator (voice)
L.I.E.
As Big John Harrigan
Prince of Jutland
As Aethelwine
Longitude
As Lord Morton
Sharpe's Eagle
As Major Michael Hogan
The Affair of the Necklace
As Minister Breteuil
Sharpe's Rifles
As Major Michael Hogan
The Veteran
As Gerry
The Secret of the Nutcracker
As Drosselmeyer
The Water Horse
As Old Angus
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
As Voiceover Narrator
The Lost Language of Cranes
As Owen Benjamin
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
As Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
As Rev. Wallace (voice)
The Campaign
As Raymond
Coriolanus
As Menenius
The Key Man
As Irving
The Parenting
As Frank
A Woman in Winter
As Dr. Hunt
Her
As Alan Watts (voice)
The Privilege
As Young Laird
Strictly Sinatra
As Chisolm
The Year of the Sex Olympics
As Lasar Opie
Blood
As Lenny Fairburn
In Celebration
As Steven Shaw
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
As Self
Witness Against Hitler
As Judge Freisler
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
As Self
The Cloning of Joanna May
As Carl May
Little Wing
As Jaan Vari
An Adventure in Space and Time
As Sydney Newman
On Expenses
The Cutter
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
As Old Man
Six Characters in Search of An Author
As The Director
The Curse of Edgar
As Edgar Hoover
Hitler in Colour
As Narrator
Anna
As Sebastian
Inside 'Manhunter'
As Himself
Believe
As Matt Busby
Blumenthal
As Harold Blumenthal
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
As Helm Hammerhand (voice)
RED 2
As Ivan
Match Point
As Alec Hewett
The Changeling
As Alsemero
Ukraine: Answering the Call
As Self
Deceptions
As Carlton Heard
Pope John Paul II
As Father Góra
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
As John Landon
The Electric State
As Popfly (voice)
A Modern Magician
As The Voice
The Anomaly
As Dr. Langham
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
The Gospel of John
As Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Murder by Numbers
As Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
As Self
Shoot for the Sun
As Dunny
The Glove
Bonnie
As Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
As self
Pixels
As Admiral Porter
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
As Jack Purves
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
As Narrator (voice)
Forsaken
As James McCurdy
Exit Humanity
As Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
As Glover
That Christmas
As Santa (voice)
The Planets
Ooh the Banter!
As Self
Agent Crush
As Spanners (voice)
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
As Narrator
Shoot on Sight
As Daniel Tennant
Skelly
As Grandpa
Saltwater
As George Beneventi
Wittgenstein's Poker
As Bertrand Russell (voice)
Sharpe: The Legend
As Hogan
Churchill
As Winston Churchill
The Carer
As Sir Michael
Morgan
As Jim Bryce
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
As Tommy Tilden
For Love of the Game
As Gary Wheeler
Murder on the Moon
As Voronov
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
As Narrator
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
Scotland In A Day
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
As Joseph Bell
Glenrothan
As Sandy
Pretenders
As Henry
Red Fox
As Geoffrey Harrison
A Shot at Glory
As Martin Smith
Food for Ravens
As Aneurin Bevan
Blue/Orange
As Dr. Robert Smith
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
As Narrator
Rat in the Skull
As Detective Inspector Nelson
Pacific Warriors
As Narrator
Merchants of Venus
As Uncle Vladimir
Super Troopers 2
As John O'Hagen
Sin
As Captain Oakes
Strange but True
As Bill
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
As Narrator
Florence Nightingale
As Dr. McGregor
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
As Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
The Etruscan Smile
As Rory MacNeil
Kubrick by Candlelight
As The Narrator
The Invention of Dr. Morel
As Dr. Morel
Remember Me
As Shane
Last Moment of Clarity
As Gilles
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
As Other Voices (voice)
The Cantor of St Thomas's
As Johann Sebastian Bach
The Bay of Silence
As Milton
Wide Blue Yonder
As Wally
Secret Weapon
As Andrew Neil
The Last Right
As Father Reilly
Lawrence After Arabia
As Father (Voice)
Grushko
As Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
The Negotiator
As Charlie King
Widdershins
As voice
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
As Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Outsiders
As Gabriel
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
As John Rebus
An Evening with Brian Cox
As Himself
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
As Nelson
A Cotswold Death
As Dr. Gillespie
The Biographer
As Michael O'Mara
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
As George Simpson
Separation
As Rivers
Home Cooking
As Vic
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
As Narrator (voice)
Carry on Ken
As Self
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
As Narrator
Mending the Line
As Ike Fletcher
Prisoner's Daughter
As Max
Dalhousie's Luck
As Dalhousie
The Making of 'Rushmore'
As Self
Killing Thyme
As Norman
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
As Self
Old Pals
As Jimmy
The Bourne Ultimatum
As Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
As Narrator
French & Saunders
As King Lear
Deadwood
As Jack Langrishe
The Tony Danza Show
As Self
The One Show
As Self - Guest
Question Time
As Self - Panellist
Minder
As Frank
Inspector Morse
As Michael Steppings
Richard & Judy
As Self
Superman: The Animated Series
As Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Lost
The Colbert Report
The Big Battalions
As Edward Hoyland
Nuremberg
As Herman Wilhelm Goering
Red Dwarf
As The King
Van der Valk
As Stefan Szabo
The Devil's Crown
As Henry II of England
One Life
The Jonathan Ross Show
As Self
The Take
As Ozzy
Acting
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
As Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Doctor Who
As Sydney Newman
Hammer House of Horror
As Chuck
A Touch of Cloth
The Straits
As Harry Montebello
Perfect Scoundrels
As Father Amedy
Unnatural Causes
As Vic
Performance
As The Director
Shetland
As Magnus Bain
The Colour of Magic
As Narrator
Sharpe
As Major Hogan
The Slap
As Manolis
The Game
As Daddy
Tooned
As The Mechanic
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
As Presenter
The Simpsons
As Kostas Becker (voice)
War and Peace
As Mikhail Kutuzov
Penny Dreadful
As Jared Talbot
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
As Self - Guest
Top Gear
As Self
Frasier
As Harry Moon
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
As Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
The Graham Norton Show
As Self
007: Road to a Million
As The Controller
Therese Raquin
As Laurent
Late Night with Seth Meyers
As Self
Bob Servant
As Bob Servant
The Great War: The People's Story
As Rev. Andrew Clark
Brian Cox's Russia
As Host
The Sinking of the Laconia
As Captain Sharp
Piers Morgan Uncensored
As Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
As Self
Succession
As Logan Roy
The Day of the Triffids
As Dennis Masen
Made of Money with Brian Cox
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
As Self
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
As Anubis (voice)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
As God
The Russell Howard Hour
As Self
The Daily Show
As Self
Medici: Masters of Florence
As Bernardo Guadagni
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
As Self - Participant
Manhunt
As Anton
Longitude
As Lord Morton
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
As Himself - Panellist
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
As Self – Actor
Addicted to Pleasure
As Self - Host
Real Time with Bill Maher
As Self
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
As Macbeth (voice)
Play for Today
As Dr. Gillespie
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
As Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Unsinkable
As Robert Dodds
Amol Rajan Interviews
As Self - Interviewed Guest
BBC Play of the Month
As Alsemero
Great Performances
As Self - Narration (voice)
Out
As McGrath
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
As Self
The Last Leg
As Self
Good Omens
As Death (voice)
VE Day 80
As Himself
