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Brian Cox

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

01/06/1946

Age

80 years old

Place of Birth

Dundee, Scotland, UK

Brian Cox

Biography

Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 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 Academ... Read More

Known For

The Parenting

The Electric State

A Modern Magician

Glenrothan

That Christmas

Skelly

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

Ooh the Banter!

Bonnie

Strange But True

Filmography

Cast

2025

The Parenting

as Frank

2025

The Electric State

as Popfly (voice)

2025

Glenrothan

as Sandy

2024

That Christmas

as Santa (voice)

2024

Skelly

as Grandpa

2023

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

as Narrator (voice)

2022

Ooh the Banter!

as Self

2022

Bonnie

as Self

2019

Strange But True

as Bill

2019

Pretenders

as Henry

2018

Super Troopers 2

as John O'Hagen

2017

Churchill

as Winston Churchill

2017

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of...

as Narrator

2016

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

as Self

2016

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

as Tommy Tilden

2016

Morgan

as Jim Bryce

2016

The Carer

as Sir Michael

2015

Forsaken

as James McCurdy

2015

Pacific Warriors

as Narrator

2015

Pixels

as Admiral Porter

2014

The Gospel of John

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

2014

Scotland In A Day

2014

The Anomaly

as Dr. Langham

2011

Exit Humanity

as Malcolm Young (voice)

2011

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

as Glover

2008

Agent Crush

as Spanners (voice)

2007

Shoot on Sight

as Daniel Tennant

2005

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Ar...

as Joseph Bell

2005

Blue/Orange

as Dr. Robert Smith

2004

Murder by Numbers

as Self

2003

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Makin...

2003

Sin

as Captain Oakes

2002

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

2002

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh

as Narrator

2002

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon

as Narrator

2000

A Shot at Glory

as Martin Smith

1999

For Love of the Game

as Gary Wheeler

1998

Merchants of Venus

as Uncle Vladimir

1997

Food for Ravens

as Aneurin Bevan

1997

Sharpe: The Legend

as Hogan

1990

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'

as self

1989

Murder on the Moon

as Voronov

1987

Shoot for the Sun

as Dunny

1988

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

as Jack Purves

2000

Saltwater

as George Beneventi

2026

Super Troopers 3: Winter Soldiers

as Capt. John O’Hagan

2025

The Marbles

as Self - Interviewee

2025

Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

as Self — Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)

2025

AMR: Dying to Change the World

as AMR

2024

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ro...

as Helm Hammerhand (voice)

2024

Little Wing

as Jaan Vari

2023

Prisoner's Daughter

as Max

2023

Mending the Line

as Ike Fletcher

2023

Quasi

as Narrator (voice)

2023

An Interview with Brian Cox

as Himself

2022

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqa...

as Self

2022

The Independent

as Nick Booker

2022

Ukraine: Answering the Call

as Self

2021

Separation

as Rivers

2021

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

as Narrator (voice)

2020

The Bay of Silence

as Milton

2020

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues

as John Rebus

2020

Last Moment of Clarity

as Gilles

2020

Lawrence After Arabia

as Father (Voice)

2019

The Last Right

as Father Reilly

2019

Remember Me

as Shane

2018

Kubrick by Candlelight

as The Narrator

2018

Widdershins

as voice

2018

The Etruscan Smile

as Rory MacNeil

2017

An Evening with Brian Cox

as Himself

2017

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Mov...

as Conrad / Crunch (voice)

2016

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light

as Self

2015

Killing Thyme

as Norman

2015

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power t...

as Andrew Carnegie (voice)

2013

Her

as Alan Watts (voice)

2013

An Adventure in Space and Time

as Sydney Newman

2013

The Curse of Edgar

as Edgar Hoover

2013

Anna

as Sebastian

2013

Believe

as Matt Busby

2013

Blumenthal

as Harold Blumenthal

2013

RED 2

as Ivan

2012

Blood

as Lenny Fairburn

2012

The Campaign

as Raymond

2012

All at Sea

as Wally

2012

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

as Old Man

2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

as John Landon

2011

The Veteran

as Gerry

2011

Ironclad

as Albany

2011

The Key Man

as Irving

2011

Coriolanus

as Menenius

2010

RED

as Ivan Simanov

2010

On Expenses

2010

As Good As Dead

as Reverend Kalahan

2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Action 12 Reporter (voice)

2009

Brian Cox's Jute Journey

as Self

2009

The Good Heart

as Jacques

2009

Tell-Tale

as Van Doren

2009

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

as Green Dragon (voice)

2008

Red

as Avery Ludlow

2008

The Escapist

as Frank Perry

2007

The Water Horse

as Old Angus

2007

The Secret of the Nutcracker

as Drosselmeyer

2007

Trick 'r Treat

as Mr. Kreeg

2007

Battle for Terra

as General Hemmer (voice)

2007

The Bourne Ultimatum

as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (u...

2007

A Woman in Winter

as Dr. Hunt

2007

Zodiac

as Melvin Belli

2006

Running with Scissors

as Dr. Finch

2006

The Outsiders

as Gabriel

2006

The Flying Scotsman

as Douglas Baxter

2006

Carry On Ken

as Self

2005

The Ringer

as Gary Barker

2005

Match Point

as Alec Hewett

2005

Red Eye

as Joe Reisert

2005

Danny Phantom: Reign Storm

as Pariah Dark (Voice)

2005

Hitler in Colour

as Narrator

2005

Japan's War in Colour

as Self - Narrator (voice)

2004

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fal...

as Other Voices (voice)

2004

The Bourne Supremacy

as Ward Abbott

2004

Troy

as King Agamemnon

2004

The Reckoning

as Tobias

2003

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker

as Self

2003

X2

as William Stryker

2002

25th Hour

as James Brogan

2002

Adaptation.

as Robert McKee

2002

Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in ...

as Narrator

2002

The Ring

as Richard Morgan

2002

The Biographer

as Michael O'Mara

2002

The Bourne Identity

as Ward Abbott

2002

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch

as Narrator

2002

The Rookie

as Jim Morris Sr.

2002

Bug

as Cyr

2001

The Affair of the Necklace

as Minister Breteuil

2001

L.I.E.

as Big John Harrigan

2001

Strictly Sinatra

as Chisolm

2001

Super Troopers

as John O'Hagen

2001

Inside 'Manhunter'

as Himself

2000

Complicity

as Inspector McDunn

2000

Mad About Mambo

as Sidney McLoughlin

2000

The Invention of Dr. Morel

as Dr. Morel

2000

The Making of 'Rushmore'

as Self

2000

Longitude

as Lord Morton

1999

The History of the British Police Force

as Narrator (voice)

1999

The Minus Man

as Doug

1999

The Corruptor

as Sean Wallace

1998

Rushmore

as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

1998

Poodle Springs

as Clayton Blackstone

1998

Desperate Measures

as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

1997

The Boxer

as Joe Hamill

1997

Kiss the Girls

as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD

1996

The Long Kiss Goodnight

as Dr. Nathan Waldman

1996

The Glimmer Man

as Mr. Smith

1996

Chain Reaction

as Lyman Earl Collier

1996

Witness Against Hitler

as Judge Freisler

1995

Braveheart

as Argyle Wallace

1995

Rob Roy

as Killearn

1994

The Maltese Double Cross

as Narrator (voice)

1994

The Negotiator

as Charlie King

1994

Grushko

as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

1994

Prince of Jutland

as Aethelwine

1994

Iron Will

as Angus McTeague

1993

Sharpe's Eagle

as Major Michael Hogan

1993

Sharpe's Rifles

as Major Michael Hogan

1992

Six Characters in Search of An Author

as The Director

1992

Macbeth

as Macbeth

1992

The Cutter

1992

The Lost Language of Cranes

as Owen Benjamin

1992

The Cloning of Joanna May

as Carl May

1992

Deceptions

as Carlton Heard

1991

Red Fox

as Geoffrey Harrison

1990

Hidden Agenda

as Peter Kerrigan

1990

Secret Weapon

as Andrew Neil

1989

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy

as Self

1989

The Blasphemers' Banquet

as Rev. Wallace (voice)

1988

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

as Voiceover Narrator

1987

Rat in the Skull

as Detective Inspector Nelson

1987

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People

as Narrator

1986

Home Cooking

as Vic

1986

Manhunter

as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

1985

Florence Nightingale

as Dr. McGregor

1985

The Cantor of St Thomas's

as Johann Sebastian Bach

1984

Pope John Paul II

as Father Góra

1983

King Lear

as Burgundy

1982

A Cotswold Death

as Dr. Gillespie

1982

The Privilege

as Young Laird

1980

Dalhousie's Luck

as Dalhousie

1976

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

as George Simpson

1975

In Celebration

as Steven Shaw

1974

The Changeling

as Alsemero

1971

Nicholas and Alexandra

as Trotsky

1968

The Year of the Sex Olympics

as Lasar Opie

1965

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

as Nelson

Crew

2025

Glenrothan

as Director

2025

Glenrothan

as Producer

2025

Seven Jewish Children

as Executive Producer

2024

Little Wing

as Executive Producer

2008

Red

as Associate Producer

2008

The Escapist

as Executive Producer