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:
- 197
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Glove
- Latest Project:
- Movie Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers 2026-08-06
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Glove | 2027 | |
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2027 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers | Capt. John O’Hagan | 2026-08-06 |
| Movie | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-07 |
| Movie | Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction | Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice) | 2025-09-22 |
| Movie | The Parenting | Frank | 2025-03-12 |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Movie | That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| 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 | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Movie | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
| Series | Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius | Self | 2023-11-08 |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - English Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Ooh the Banter! | Self | 2022-12-31 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-23 |
| 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 | Self - Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | Strange But True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2017-04-04 |
| Movie | The 21st Century Race For Space | Self | 2017-09-05 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad / Crunch (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light | Self | 2016-06-13 |
| 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 | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Series | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox | Self - Presenter | 2016-07-04 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-02-13 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | William Stryker (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-05-15 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| 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 | All at Sea | 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 | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | The Bourne Ultimatum | Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2007-08-03 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2007-12-15 |
| 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 | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-10 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | 2004-09-13 | |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' | 2003-11-25 | |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 2003-05-20 |
| 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 Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| 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 Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Movie | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-09-24 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| 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 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| 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 | 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 | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
| 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 | The Privilege | Young Laird | 1982-01-01 |
| Movie | A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie | 1982-01-12 |
| 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 |