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:
- 175
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Glove
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024-12-11
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Glove | 2025 | |
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2025 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-11 |
| Movie | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-01-02 |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2019-05-03 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | The 21st Century Race For Space | Self | 2017-09-05 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2017-04-04 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Series | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox | Self - Presenter | 2016-07-04 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| 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 | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Movie | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | Carry on Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Movie | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
| Movie | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | 2004-09-13 | |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| 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 | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| 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 | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Movie | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Royal Deceit | 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 | |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| 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 | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| Movie | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-05-09 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-07-05 |
| 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 | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent LeClaire | 1980-03-12 |
| Series | Out | 1978-07-24 | |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Henry II of England | 1978-04-30 |
| 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 |