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:
- 238
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Electric State
- Latest Project:
- Movie MiP: The Journey Across the Universe 2025
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Have I Got a Bit More News for You | Himself - Panellist | 2025 |
| Movie | The Electric State | 2025 | |
| Movie | MiP: The Journey Across the Universe | Brian Cox (voice) | 2025 |
| Movie | The Glove | 2025 | |
| Movie | The Parenting | 2025 | |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-11 |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
| Movie | Ukraine: Answering the Call | Self | 2022-07-03 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-01-02 |
| Series | Blade Runner: Black Lotus | Niander Wallace Sr. (voice) | 2021-11-14 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | The Craft Behind Succession | Logan Roy | 2020-07-02 |
| Movie | John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus | 2020-05-27 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Series | The Planets | Self - Presenter | 2019-05-28 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Stargazing: Moon and Beyond | Self | 2019-07-16 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Widdershins | voice | 2018-06-27 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| Series | Back to Earth: Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2018-05-22 |
| Movie | The 21st Century Race For Space | Self | 2017-09-05 |
| Movie | Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation | Narrator | 2017-02-18 |
| Movie | An Evening with Brian Cox | Himself | 2017-07-26 |
| 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 | Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2017-04-04 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Series | Medici: Masters of Florence | Bernardo Guadagni | 2016-10-18 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Pacific Warriors | Narrator | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) | 2015-07-01 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | William Stryker (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-05-15 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Movie | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Series | Shetland | Magnus Bain | 2013-03-10 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| 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 | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Series | A Touch of Cloth | Bill Ball | 2012-08-26 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Series | Tooned | The Mechanic | 2012-07-08 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| 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 | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Series | Wonders of the Universe | Self - Presenter | 2011-03-06 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Series | Wonders of the Solar System | Self - Presenter | 2010-03-07 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity | Narrator | 2008-01-29 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Series | The Graham Norton Show | Himself | 2007-02-22 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Carry on Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Movie | The Outsiders | Gabriel | 2006-10-03 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Movie | Japan's War In Colour | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Hitler in Colour | Narrator | 2005-04-30 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? | Interviewee | 2004-01-01 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | Unknown | 2004-09-13 |
| Series | Lost | Unknown | 2004-09-22 |
| Series | Deadwood | Jack Langrishe | 2004-03-21 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2 | Himself | 2003-11-25 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Series | One Life | Unknown | 2003-09-24 |
| Series | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 2003-02-21 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World | Narrator | 2002-11-19 |
| Series | Top Gear | Himself | 2002-10-20 |
| Movie | The Biographer | Michael O'Mara | 2002-09-01 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Norimberk | Unknown | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| 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 | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| 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 | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| Series | Superman: The Animated Series | Unknown | 1996-09-06 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| 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 | The Negotiator | Charlie King | 1994-05-31 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Series | Frasier | Harry Moon | 1993-09-16 |
| Series | Sharpe | Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| 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 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | Macbeth | Macbeth (voice) | 1992-11-23 |
| Movie | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
| 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 | Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy | Self | 1989-12-07 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Series | Red Dwarf | Unknown | 1988-02-15 |
| Movie | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
| Series | French & Saunders | King Lear | 1987-03-09 |
| Series | Inspector Morse | Unknown | 1987-01-06 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Home Cooking | Vic | 1986-11-08 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecter | 1986-08-14 |
| Movie | The Cantor of St Thomas's | Johann Sebastian Bach | 1985-04-07 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Silent Scream | Chuck Spillers | 1980-10-25 |
| Series | Hammer House of Horror | Chuck | 1980-09-13 |
| Series | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent LeClaire | 1980-03-12 |
| Series | Minder | Unknown | 1979-10-29 |
| Series | Question Time | Self - Panellist | 1979-09-25 |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Henry II of England | 1978-04-30 |
| Series | Out | McGrath | 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 |
| Series | Van der Valk | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
| Series | Great Performances | self | 1971-01-28 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Movie | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |
| Movie | A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson | 1965-07-07 |
