Brian Cox

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. 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

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	48
5	1982	The Privilege	Young Laird	0
6	1983	King Lear	Burgundy	65
7	1984	Pope John Paul II	Father Góra	69
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	76
12	1989	Murder on the Moon	Voronov	30
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	55
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	Food for Ravens	Aneurin Bevan	60
37	1997	The Boxer	Joe Hamill	67
38	1998	Desperate Measures	Captain Jeremiah Cassidy	60
39	1998	Poodle Springs	Clayton Blackstone	55
40	1998	Rushmore	Dr. Nelson Guggenheim	74
41	1999	The Minus Man	Doug	54
42	1999	The Corruptor	Sean Wallace	60
43	1999	For Love of the Game	Gary Wheeler	65
44	2000	Longitude	Lord Morton	73
45	2000	Mad About Mambo	Sidney McLoughlin	50
46	2000	A Shot at Glory	Martin Smith	55
47	2000	Complicity	Inspector McDunn	59
48	2000	Saltwater	George Beneventi	69
49	2001	Inside 'Manhunter'	Himself	70
50	2001	Super Troopers	John O'Hagen	65
51	2001	Strictly Sinatra	Chisolm	48
52	2001	L.I.E.	Big John Harrigan	68
53	2001	The Affair of the Necklace	Minister Breteuil	56
54	2002	Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon	Narrator	68
55	2002	Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh	Narrator	0
56	2002	Bug	Cyr	72
57	2002	The Rookie	Jim Morris Sr.	68
58	2002	The Bourne Identity	Ward Abbott	75
59	2002	The Trials of Henry Kissinger		70
60	2002	The Ring	Richard Morgan	67
61	2002	Adaptation.	Robert McKee	74
62	2002	25th Hour	James Brogan	73
63	2003	X2	William Stryker	70
64	2003	The Evolution of an American Filmmaker	Self	73
65	2003	The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2		80
66	2004	The Reckoning	Tobias	64
67	2004	Murder by Numbers	Self	0
68	2004	Troy	King Agamemnon	72
69	2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Ward Abbott	73
70	2005	Japan's War In Colour	Narrator	80
71	2005	Blue/Orange	Dr. Robert Smith	55
72	2005	Hitler in Colour	Narrator	79
73	2005	Red Eye	Joe Reisert	64
74	2005	The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle	Joseph Bell	61
75	2005	Match Point	Alec Hewett	74
76	2005	The Ringer	Gary Barker	57
77	2006	The Flying Scotsman	Douglas Baxter	66
78	2006	Running with Scissors	Dr. Finch	58
79	2007	Zodiac	Melvin Belli	75
80	2007	A Woman in Winter	Dr. Hunt	77
81	2007	Battle for Terra	General Hemmer (voice)	61
82	2007	Trick 'r Treat	Mr. Kreeg	70
83	2007	Shoot on Sight	Daniel Tennant	61
84	2007	The Secret of the Nutcracker	Drosselmeyer	53
85	2007	The Water Horse	Old Angus	65
86	2008	Agent Crush	Spanners (voice)	35
87	2008	The Escapist	Frank Perry	62
88	2008	Red	Avery Ludlow	62
89	2009	Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword	Green Dragon (voice)	77
90	2009	Tell-Tale	Van Doren	54
91	2009	The Good Heart	Jacques	63
92	2009	Brian Cox's Jute Journey	Self	0
93	2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Action 12 Reporter (voice)	78
94	2010	As Good As Dead	Reverend Kalahan	50
95	2010	On Expenses		0
96	2010	RED	Ivan Simanov	67
97	2011	Coriolanus	Menenius	58
98	2011	The Key Man	Irving	38
99	2011	Ironclad	Albany	61
100	2011	The Veteran	Gerry	57
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)	51
104	2012	I Missed My Mother's Funeral	Old Man	0
105	2012	The Campaign	Raymond	58
106	2012	Blood	Lenny Fairburn	59
107	2013	RED 2	Ivan	65
108	2013	Blumenthal	Harold Blumenthal	40
109	2013	Believe	Matt Busby	60
110	2013	Anna	Sebastian	65
111	2013	The Curse of Edgar	Edgar Hoover	72
112	2013	An Adventure in Space and Time	Sydney Newman	77
113	2013	Her	Alan Watts (voice)	78
114	2014	The Anomaly	Dr. Langham	49
115	2014	Scotland In A Day		0
116	2014	The Gospel of John	Narrator (voice) – King James Version	70
117	2015	Pixels	Admiral Porter	58
118	2015	Forsaken	James McCurdy	61
119	2016	The Carer	Sir Michael	67
120	2016	Morgan	Jim Bryce	58
121	2016	The Autopsy of Jane Doe	Tommy Tilden	68
122	2016	Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC	Self	0
123	2017	Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation	Narrator	0
124	2017	Churchill	Winston Churchill	62
125	2019	Pretenders	Henry	52
126	2022	Ukraine: Answering the Call	Self	0
127	2022	The Independent	Nick Booker	67
128	2022	Bonnie	Self	50
129	2022	Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba	Self	76
130	2022	Ooh the Banter!	Self	0
131	2023	An Interview with Brian Cox	Himself	0
132	2023	Quasi	Narrator (voice)	52
133	2024	Little Wing	Jaan Vari	62
134	2024	The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim	Helm Hammerhand (voice)	66
135	2025	The Electric State	Popfly (voice)	65
136		A Modern Magician	The Voice	0
137		The Glove		0
138	2023	Bill Douglas: My Best Friend	Narrator (voice)	0
139	2024	That Christmas	Santa (voice)	72
140		The Planets		0
141	2024	Skelly	Grandpa	55
142		Wittgenstein's Poker	Bertrand Russell (voice)	0
143		Glenrothan	Sandy	0
144	1965	A Knight in Tarnished Armour	Nelson	0
145	1976	Clay, Smeddum and Greenden	George Simpson	70
146	1980	Dalhousie's Luck	Dalhousie	0
147	1982	A Cotswold Death	Dr. Gillespie	70
148	1985	Florence Nightingale	Dr. McGregor	57
149	1985	The Cantor of St Thomas's	Johann Sebastian Bach	0
150	1986	Home Cooking	Vic	0
151	1987	Rat in the Skull	Detective Inspector Nelson	0
152	1987	Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People	Narrator	0
153	1990	Secret Weapon	Andrew Neil	60
154	1994	Grushko	Colonel Yevgeni Grushko	60
155	1994	The Negotiator	Charlie King	0
156	1998	Merchants of Venus	Uncle Vladimir	68
157	2000	The Making of 'Rushmore'	Self	60
158	2000	The Invention of Dr. Morel	Dr. Morel	0
159	2002	Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch	Narrator	0
160	2002	The Biographer	Michael O'Mara	0
161	2002	Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World	Narrator	60
162	2003	Sin	Captain Oakes	49
163	2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)	71
164	2006	Carry On Ken	Self	0
165	2006	The Outsiders	Gabriel	40
166	2007	The Bourne Ultimatum	Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)	74
167	2012	Wide Blue Yonder	Wally	44
168	2015	Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace	Andrew Carnegie (voice)	67
169	2015	Pacific Warriors	Narrator	68
170	2016	Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light	Self	0
171	2017	Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie	Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)	83
172	2017	An Evening with Brian Cox	Himself	0
173	2018	The Etruscan Smile	Rory MacNeil	65
174	2018	Super Troopers 2	John O'Hagen	59
175	2018	Widdershins	voice	74
176	2018	Kubrick by Candlelight	The Narrator	70
177	2019	Remember Me	Shane	62
178	2019	Strange But True	Bill	60
179	2019	The Last Right	Father Reilly	62
180	2020	Last Moment of Clarity	Gilles	52
181	2020	Lawrence After Arabia	Father (Voice)	42
182	2020	John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues	John Rebus	0
183	2020	The Bay of Silence	Milton	44
184	2021	Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story	Narrator (voice)	50
185	2021	Separation	Rivers	57
186	2023	Mending the Line	Ike Fletcher	64
187	2023	Prisoner's Daughter	Max	61
188	2025	The Parenting	Frank	60
189		Killing Thyme	Norman	0
190		Old Pals	Jimmy	0
191		Macbeth	Macbeth	0

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	63
4	1971	Great Performances	Self - Narration (voice)	53
5	1972	Van der Valk	Stefan Szabo	58
6	1974	Playhouse	Dalhousie	70
7	1978	The Devil's Crown	Henry II of England	73
8	1978	Out	McGrath	70
9	1979	Question Time	Self - Panellist	55
10	1979	Minder	Frank	68
11	1980	Therese Raquin	Laurent	59
12	1980	Hammer House of Horror	Chuck	71
13	1986	Unnatural Causes	Vic	55
14	1987	Inspector Morse	Michael Steppings	78
15	1987	French & Saunders	King Lear	75
16	1987	Acting		0
17	1988	The Modern World: Ten Great Writers	Henrik Ibsen (voice)	0
18	1988	Red Dwarf	The King	81
19	1988	LIVE with Kelly and Mark	Self - Guest	56
20	1989	The Simpsons	Kostas Becker (voice)	80
21	1990	Perfect Scoundrels	Father Amedy	60
22	1991	Performance	The Director	60
23	1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales	Macbeth (voice)	64
24	1992	The Big Battalions	Edward Hoyland	60
25	1993	Sharpe	Major Hogan	79
26	1993	Frasier	Harry Moon	77
27	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
28	1996	Superman: The Animated Series	Dr. Earl Garver (voice)	76
29	2000	Longitude	Lord Morton	70
30	2000	Nuremberg	Herman Wilhelm Goering	74
31	2000	Aqua Teen Hunger Force	Anubis (voice)	76
32	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
33	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
34	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
35	2003	One Life		0
36	2004	Deadwood	Jack Langrishe	81
37	2004	The Tony Danza Show	Self	61
38	2005	The Colbert Report		69
39	2006	The One Show	Self - Guest	45
40	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
41	2008	The Colour of Magic	Narrator	67
42	2009	The Take	Ozzy	76
43	2009	The Day of the Triffids	Dennis Masen	59
44	2011	The Sinking of the Laconia	Captain Sharp	63
45	2011	The Jonathan Ross Show	Self	51
46	2011	The Jonathan Ross Show	Self - Guest	51
47	2011	Celebrity Antiques Road Trip	Self - Participant	50
48	2012	The Straits	Harry Montebello	60
49	2012	Tooned	The Mechanic	0
50	2012	A Touch of Cloth	Bill Ball	72
51	2012	Addicted to Pleasure	Self - Host	0
52	2013	Bob Servant	Bob Servant	63
53	2013	The Last Leg	Self	56
54	2013	Shetland	Magnus Bain	75
55	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
56	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
57	2014	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	God	79
58	2014	Penny Dreadful	Jared Talbot	78
59	2014	The Great War: The People's Story	Rev. Andrew Clark	61
60	2014	The Game	Daddy	72
61	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
62	2015	The Slap	Manolis	59
63	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		64
64	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
65	2016	War and Peace	Mikhail Kutuzov	76
66	2016	Medici: Masters of Florence	Bernardo Guadagni	78
67	2017	Brian Cox's Russia	Host	0
68	2017	Carpool Karaoke: The Series	Self	58
69	2017	The Russell Howard Hour	Self	80
70	2018	Succession	Logan Roy	83
71	2019	Good Omens	Death (voice)	80
72	2021	Blade Runner: Black Lotus	Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)	71
73	2022	Piers Morgan Uncensored	Self	25
74	2022	Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg	Self – Actor	27
75	2022	Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live	Presenter	0
76	2023	Made of Money with Brian Cox		0
77	2023	007: Road to a Million	The Controller	67
78		Have I Got a Bit More News for You	Himself - Panellist	70
79	2023	Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius	Self	53
80	2024	Unsinkable	Robert Dodds	100
81	2025	VE Day 80	Himself	70

Brian Cox

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