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 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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Dundee, Scotland, UK, 1946-06-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	The Year of the Sex Olympics	Lasar Opie	53
2	1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Trotsky	69
3	1974	The Changeling	Alsemero	70
4	1975	In Celebration	Steven Shaw	49
5	1982	The Privilege	Young Laird	0
6	1983	King Lear	Burgundy	65
7	1984	Pope John Paul II	Father Góra	80
8	1986	Manhunter	Dr. Hannibal Lecktor	70
9	1987	Shoot for the Sun	Dunny	0
10	1988	Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun	Jack Purves	30
11	1988	Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky	Voiceover Narrator	74
12	1989	Murder on the Moon	Voronov	32
13	1989	The Blasphemers' Banquet	Rev. Wallace (voice)	0
14	1989	Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy	Self	0
15	1990	The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'	self	0
16	1990	Hidden Agenda	Peter Kerrigan	69
17	1991	Red Fox	Geoffrey Harrison	50
18	1992	Deceptions	Carlton Heard	0
19	1992	The Cloning of Joanna May	Carl May	70
20	1992	The Lost Language of Cranes	Owen Benjamin	62
21	1992	The Cutter		0
22	1992	Six Characters in Search of An Author	The Director	10
23	1993	Sharpe's Rifles	Major Michael Hogan	66
24	1993	Sharpe's Eagle	Major Michael Hogan	71
25	1994	Iron Will	Angus McTeague	67
26	1994	Prince of Jutland	Aethelwine	56
27	1994	The Maltese Double Cross	Narrator (voice)	70
28	1995	Rob Roy	Killearn	67
29	1995	Braveheart	Argyle Wallace	79
30	1996	Witness Against Hitler	Judge Freisler	60
31	1996	Chain Reaction	Lyman Earl Collier	58
32	1996	The Glimmer Man	Mr. Smith	54
33	1996	The Long Kiss Goodnight	Dr. Nathan Waldman	66
34	1997	Kiss the Girls	Chief Hatfield, Durham PD	65
35	1997	Sharpe: The Legend	Hogan	60
36	1997	The Boxer	Joe Hamill	67
37	1998	Desperate Measures	Captain Jeremiah Cassidy	60
38	1998	Poodle Springs	Clayton Blackstone	55
39	1998	Rushmore	Dr. Nelson Guggenheim	74
40	1999	The Minus Man	Doug	54
41	1999	The Corruptor	Sean Wallace	61
42	1999	For Love of the Game	Gary Wheeler	65
43	2000	Longitude	Lord Morton	73
44	2000	Mad About Mambo	Sidney McLoughlin	51
45	2000	A Shot at Glory	Martin Smith	55
46	2000	Complicity	Inspector McDunn	59
47	2000	Saltwater	George Beneventi	71
48	2001	Inside 'Manhunter'	Himself	70
49	2001	Super Troopers	John O'Hagen	66
50	2001	Strictly Sinatra	Chisolm	47
51	2001	L.I.E.	Big John Harrigan	67
52	2001	The Affair of the Necklace	Minister Breteuil	56
53	2002	Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon	Narrator	68
54	2002	Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh	Narrator	0
55	2002	Bug	Cyr	72
56	2002	The Rookie	Jim Morris Sr.	68
57	2002	The Bourne Identity	Ward Abbott	75
58	2002	The Trials of Henry Kissinger		70
59	2002	The Ring	Richard Morgan	67
60	2002	Adaptation.	Robert McKee	74
61	2002	25th Hour	James Brogan	73
62	2003	X2	William Stryker	70
63	2003	The Evolution of an American Filmmaker	Self	73
64	2003	The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2		80
65	2004	The Reckoning	Tobias	64
66	2004	Murder by Numbers	Self	0
67	2004	Troy	King Agamemnon	72
68	2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Ward Abbott	73
69	2005	Japan's War In Colour	Narrator	80
70	2005	Hitler in Colour	Narrator	80
71	2005	Red Eye	Joe Reisert	64
72	2005	The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle	Joseph Bell	61
73	2005	Match Point	Alec Hewett	74
74	2005	The Ringer	Gary Barker	57
75	2006	The Flying Scotsman	Douglas Baxter	67
76	2006	Running with Scissors	Dr. Finch	58
77	2007	Zodiac	Melvin Belli	75
78	2007	A Woman in Winter	Dr. Hunt	77
79	2007	Battle for Terra	General Hemmer (voice)	61
80	2007	Trick 'r Treat	Mr. Kreeg	70
81	2007	The Secret of the Nutcracker	Drosselmeyer	56
82	2007	The Water Horse	Old Angus	65
83	2008	Agent Crush	Spanners (voice)	60
84	2008	The Escapist	Frank Perry	62
85	2008	Red	Avery Ludlow	62
86	2008	Shoot on Sight	Daniel Tennant	61
87	2009	Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword	Green Dragon (voice)	77
88	2009	Tell-Tale	Van Doren	54
89	2009	The Good Heart	Jacques	62
90	2009	Brian Cox's Jute Journey	Self	0
91	2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Action 12 Reporter (voice)	78
92	2010	As Good As Dead	Reverend Kalahan	50
93	2010	On Expenses		0
94	2010	RED	Ivan Simanov	67
95	2011	Coriolanus	Menenius	59
96	2011	The Key Man	Irving	40
97	2011	Ironclad	Albany	61
98	2011	The Veteran	Gerry	57
99	2012	The Campaign	Raymond	58
100		The Parenting		0
101	2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	John Landon	73
102	2011	Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster	Glover	55
103	2011	Exit Humanity	Malcolm Young (voice)	52
104	2012	I Missed My Mother's Funeral	Old Man	0
105	2012	Blood	Lenny Fairburn	58
106	2013	RED 2	Ivan	65
107	2013	Blumenthal	Harold Blumenthal	70
108	2013	Believe	Matt Busby	61
109	2013	Anna	Sebastian	65
110	2013	The Curse of Edgar	Edgar Hoover	72
111	2013	An Adventure in Space and Time	Sydney Newman	77
112	2013	Her	Alan Watts (voice)	79
113	2014	The Anomaly	Dr. Langham	49
114	2014	Scotland In A Day		0
115	2014	The Gospel of John	Narrator (voice) – King James Version	73
116	2015	Pixels	Admiral Porter	57
117	2015	Forsaken	James McCurdy	61
118	2016	The Carer	Sir Michael	67
119	2016	Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC	Self	0
120	2022	Ukraine: Answering the Call	Self	0
121	2022	The Independent	Nick Booker	67
122	2022	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba	Self	76
123	2023	An Interview with Brian Cox	Himself	0
124	2023	Quasi	Narrator (voice)	52
125	2024	Little Wing	Jaan Vari	68
126	2025	The Electric State	Popfly (voice)	0
127		A Modern Magician	The Voice	0
128		The Glove		0
129	2016	Morgan	Jim Bryce	58
130	2016	The Autopsy of Jane Doe	Tommy Tilden	68
131	2017	Churchill	Winston Churchill	62
132	2019	Pretenders	Henry	55
133	2022	Bonnie	Self	30
134	2022	Ooh the Banter!	Self (archive footage)	0
135	2023	Bill Douglas: My Best Friend	Narrator (voice)	0
136	2024	That Christmas	Santa (voice)	71
137		The Planets		0
138	2024	Skelly	Grandpa	50
139		Wittgenstein's Poker	Bertrand Russell (voice)	0
140		Glenrothan	Sandy	0
141	1965	A Knight in Tarnished Armour	Nelson	0
142	1976	Clay, Smeddum and Greenden	George Simpson	70
143	1980	Dalhousie's Luck	Dalhousie	0
144	1982	A Cotswold Death	Dr. Gillespie	70
145	1985	Florence Nightingale	Dr. McGregor	55
146	1985	The Cantor of St Thomas's	Johann Sebastian Bach	0
147	1986	Home Cooking	Vic	0
148	1987	Rat in the Skull	Detective Inspector Nelson	0
149	1987	Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People	Narrator	0
150	1990	Secret Weapon	Andrew Neil	60
151	1994	Grushko	Colonel Yevgeni Grushko	60
152	1994	The Negotiator	Charlie King	0
153	1997	Food for Ravens	Aneurin Bevan	60
154	1998	Merchants of Venus	Uncle Vladimir	72
155	2000	The Making of 'Rushmore'	Self	60
156	2000	The Invention of Dr. Morel	Dr. Morel	0
157	2002	The Biographer	Michael O'Mara	0
158	2002	Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World	Narrator	60
159	2003	Sin	Captain Oakes	49
160	2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)	71
161	2005	Blue/Orange	Dr. Robert Smith	55
162	2006	Carry on Ken	Self	0
163	2006	The Outsiders	Gabriel	40
164	2012	Wide Blue Yonder	Wally	50
165	2015	Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace	Andrew Carnegie (voice)	67
166	2015	Pacific Warriors	Narrator	68
167	2016	Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light	Self	0
168	2017	Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation	Narrator	0
169	2017	Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie	Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)	86
170	2017	An Evening with Brian Cox	Himself	0
171	2018	The Etruscan Smile	Rory MacNeil	65
172	2018	Super Troopers 2	John O'Hagen	59
173	2018	Widdershins	voice	74
174	2018	Kubrick by Candlelight	The Narrator	70
175	2019	Remember Me	Shane	62
176	2019	Strange but True	Bill	60
177	2019	The Last Right	Father Reilly	62
178	2020	Last Moment of Clarity	Gilles	52
179	2020	Lawrence After Arabia	Father (Voice)	42
180	2020	John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues	John Rebus	0
181	2020	The Bay of Silence	Milton	44
182	2021	Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story	Narrator (voice)	50
183	2021	Separation	Rivers	57
184	2023	Mending the Line	Ike Fletcher	64
185	2023	Prisoner's Daughter	Max	63
186	2024	The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim	Helm Hammerhand (voice)	66
187		Killing Thyme	Norman	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Alsemero	50
2	1970	Manhunt	Anton	65
3	1970	Play for Today	Dr. Gillespie	61
4	1971	Great Performances	Self - Narration (voice)	52
5	1972	Van der Valk	Stefan Szabo	58
6	1978	The Devil's Crown	Henry II of England	75
7	1978	Out	McGrath	70
8	1979	Question Time	Self - Panellist	50
9	1979	Minder	Frank	68
10	1980	Therese Raquin	Laurent	59
11	1980	Hammer House of Horror	Chuck	71
12	1986	Unnatural Causes	Vic	55
13	1987	Inspector Morse	Michael Steppings	78
14	1987	French & Saunders	King Lear	75
15	1987	Acting		0
16	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Henrik Ibsen (voice)	0
17	1988	Red Dwarf	The King	81
18	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	55
19	1989	The Simpsons	Kostas Becker (voice)	80
20	1990	Perfect Scoundrels	Father Amedy	60
21	1991	Performance	The Director	60
22	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Macbeth (voice)	68
23	1992	The Big Battalions	Edward Hoyland	60
24	1993	Sharpe	Major Hogan	78
25	1993	Frasier	Harry Moon	77
26	1996	The Daily Show	Self	63
27	1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Dr. Earl Garver (voice)	76
28	2000	Longitude	Lord Morton	70
29	2000	Nuremberg	Herman Wilhelm Goering	75
30	2000	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Anubis (voice)	75
31	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
32	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
33	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
34	2003	One Life		0
35	2004	Deadwood	Jack Langrishe	81
36	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
37	2004	Lost		79
38	2005	Doctor Who	Sydney Newman	75
39	2005	The Colbert Report		68
40	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	46
41	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
42	2008	The Colour of Magic	Narrator	67
43	2009	The Take	Ozzy	76
44	2009	The Day of the Triffids	Dennis Masen	59
45	2011	The Sinking of the Laconia	Captain Sharp	63
46	2011	The Jonathan Ross Show	Self	48
47	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
48	2012	The Straits	Harry Montebello	73
49	2012	Tooned	The Mechanic	0
50	2012	A Touch of Cloth		73
51	2012	A Touch of Cloth	Bill Ball	73
52	2012	Addicted to Pleasure	Self - Host	0
53	2013	Bob Servant	Bob Servant	60
54	2013	The Last Leg	Self	53
55	2013	Shetland	Magnus Bain	75
56	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	58
57	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
58	2014	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	God	79
59	2014	Penny Dreadful	Jared Talbot	78
60	2014	The Great War: The People's Story	Rev. Andrew Clark	61
61	2014	The Game	Daddy	74
62	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	44
63	2015	The Slap	Manolis	60
64	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		65
65	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
66	2016	War and Peace	Mikhail Kutuzov	76
67	2016	Medici: Masters of Florence	Bernardo Guadagni	78
68	2017	Brian Cox's Russia	Host	0
69	2017	Carpool Karaoke: The Series	Self	59
70	2017	The Russell Howard Hour	Self	80
71	2018	Succession	Logan Roy	83
72	2019	Good Omens	Death (voice)	80
73	2021	Blade Runner: Black Lotus	Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)	71
74	2022	Piers Morgan Uncensored	Self	28
75	2022	Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg	Self – Actor	27
76	2022	Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live	Presenter	0
77	2023	Made of Money with Brian Cox		0
78	2023	007: Road to a Million	The Controller	67
79		Have I Got a Bit More News for You	Himself - Panellist	70
80	2023	Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius	Self	53
81	2024	Unsinkable	Robert Dodds	100
82		Amol Rajan Interviews	Self - Interviewed Guest	0