Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born 1 June 1946) is a Scottish actor. He is known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He has also appeared in many Hollywood productions playing parts such as Dr. Guggenheim in Rushmore and William Stryker in X2. He was the first actor to portray Hannibal Lecter on film in the 1986 production Manhunter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jun 1, 1946 In Dundee, Scotland, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 196
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Succession
- Latest Project:
- Movie Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction 2025-09-22
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Super Troopers 3 | Capt. John O’Hagan | 2026 |
| Movie | Succession | 2026 | |
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2026 |
| Movie | The Glove | 2026 | |
| Movie | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-07 |
| Movie | Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction | Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice) | 2025-09-22 |
| Series | Unsinkable | Robert Dodds | 2024-07-10 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-05 |
| Movie | That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| Movie | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Movie | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Series | Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius | Self | 2023-11-08 |
| Movie | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Ooh the Banter! | Self | 2022-12-31 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - English Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-23 |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Self - Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | Strange But True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad / Crunch (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Movie | The 21st Century Race For Space | Self | 2017-09-05 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2017-04-04 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light | Self | 2016-06-13 |
| Series | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox | Self - Presenter | 2016-07-04 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-02-13 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | William Stryker (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-05-15 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Movie | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | All at Sea | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-14 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | The Bourne Ultimatum | Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2007-08-03 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2007-12-15 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Movie | Carry On Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-10 |
| Movie | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | 2004-09-13 | |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 2003-05-20 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' | 2003-11-25 | |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Movie | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham PD | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | The Cutter | 1992-08-10 | |
| Series | The Big Battalions | Edward Hoyland | 1992-11-19 |
| Movie | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-05-09 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-04-07 |
| Movie | Pope John Paul II | Father Góra | 1984-04-22 |
| Movie | King Lear | Burgundy | 1983-04-03 |
| Movie | A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie | 1982-01-12 |
| Movie | The Privilege | Young Laird | 1982-01-01 |
| Series | Therese Raquin | Laurent | 1980-03-12 |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Henry II of England | 1978-04-30 |
| Series | Out | 1978-07-24 | |
| Movie | Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | George Simpson | 1976-02-24 |
| Movie | In Celebration | Steven Shaw | 1975-03-17 |
| Movie | The Changeling | Alsemero | 1974-01-20 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
| Movie | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |