Brian Cox
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 Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander. Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. He went on to train as a Shakespearean actor, starring in numerous productions with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Rat in the Skull (1984), for Royal Court, and Titus Andronicus (1988). He received two more Olivier Award nominations for Misalliance (1986) and Fashion (1988). Known as a character actor in film, he played Robert McKee in Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) and William Stryker in X2 (2003). For his starring role in L.I.E. (2001), he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other notable films include Manhunter (1986), Iron Will (1994), Braveheart (1995), The Boxer (1997), The Rookie (2002), Troy (2004), Match Point (2005), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Coriolanus (2011), Pixels (2015), and Churchill (2017). Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in the television film Nuremberg (2001). The following year, he guest starred on the NBC sitcom Frasier, earning his second Emmy nomination in 2002. He portrayed Jack Langrishe in the HBO series Deadwood. He starred as Logan Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018-2023), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
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A Modern Magician
as The Voice
The Glove
as Unknown
The Planets
as Unknown
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist
The Sunrise File
as Oded Ailam (voice)
Glenrothan
as Sandy
The Marbles
as Self - Interviewee
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Dexter: Resurrection
as The New York Ripper
VE Day 80
as Self
The Parenting
as Frank
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
Unsinkable
as Robert Dodds
Skelly
as Grandpa
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
007: Road to a Million
as The Controller
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
as Self
Made of Money with Brian Cox
as Unknown
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
Ooh the Banter!
as Self
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
as Presenter
Bonnie
as Self
The Independent
as Nick Booker
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self - Actor
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
Remembers…
as Unknown
Piers Morgan Uncensored
as Self
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Amol Rajan Interviews
as Self - Interviewed Guest
Separation
as Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
Strange but True
as Bill
Pretenders
as Henry
Remember Me
as Shane
Good Omens
as Death (voice)
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
Widdershins
as voice
Succession
as Logan Roy
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
The Russell Howard Hour
as Self
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
as Self
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
Brian Cox's Russia
as Host
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
Medici: Masters of Florence
as Bernardo Guadagni
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
The Carer
as Sir Michael
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
War and Peace
as Mikhail Kutuzov
Killing Thyme
as Norman
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Slap
as Manolis
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Game
as Daddy
The Great War: The People's Story
as Rev. Andrew Clark
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
Penny Dreadful
as Jared Talbot
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as God
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
Believe
as Matt Busby
RED 2
as Ivan
Shetland
as Magnus Bain
The Last Leg
as Self
Bob Servant
as Bob Servant
Addicted to Pleasure
as Self - Host
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
A Touch of Cloth
as Bill Ball
The Campaign
as Raymond
Tooned
as The Mechanic
All at Sea
as Wally
The Straits
as Harry Montebello
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self - Guest
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
The Veteran
as Gerry
Ironclad
as Albany
The Key Man
as Irving
Coriolanus
as Menenius
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Captain Sharp
RED
as Ivan Simanov
The Color of Magic 2in1
as Vypravěč
On Expenses
as Michael Martin
As Good As Dead
as Reverand Kalahan
The Day of the Triffids
as Dennis Masen
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
The Good Heart
as Jacques
The Take
as Ozzy
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
Kings
as King Vesper Abaddon
Red
as Avery Ludlow
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
The Colour of Magic
as Narrator
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
as Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
as Narrator
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
M.I. High
as Voice of the Mastermind
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
The One Show
as Self - Guest
Carry On Ken
as Self
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
The Colbert Report
as Unknown
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lewis Serrocold
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
Troy
as Agamemnon
Deadwood
as Jack Langrishe
Murder by Numbers
as Self
The Reckoning
as Tobias
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
Sin
as Captain Oakes
25th Hour
as James Brogan
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
Top Gear
as Self
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
as Self
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
Bug
as Cyr
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
Richard & Judy
as Self
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
as Anubis (voice)
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
Nuremberg
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
Longitude
as Lord Morton
Longitude
as Lord Morton
The Minus Man
as Doug
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
Battle of the Clans
as Narrator
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
as Narrator
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
Superman: The Animated Series
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
The Daily Show
as Self
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy
as Killearn
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
Frasier
as Harry Moon
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe
as Major Hogan
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
The Big Battalions
as Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Macbeth (voice)
The Cutter
as Unknown
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
Performance
as The Director
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
Have I Got News for You
as Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
Perfect Scoundrels
as Father Amedy
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
The Simpsons
as Kostas Becker (voice)
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
Red Dwarf
as The King
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
French & Saunders
as King Lear
Inspector Morse
as Michael Steppings
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
Home Cooking
as Vic
Unnatural Causes
as Vic
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
King Lear
as Burgundy
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
The Privilege
as Young Laird
House on the Hill
as Leon Douglas
Hammer House of Horror
as Chuck
Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
Therese Raquin
as Laurent LeClaire
Minder
as Frank
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
Out
as McGrath
The Devil's Crown
as Henry II
Target
as Billy Voss
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
Shades of Greene
as Harry
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
Churchill's People
as William Wallace
Playhouse
as Dalhousie
The Changeling
as Alsemero
Van der Valk
as Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
Great Performances
as Self - Narration (voice)
Play for Today
as Dr. Gillespie
Manhunt
as Anton
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
ITV Playhouse
as Apeman
BBC Play of the Month
as Alsemero
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Josef Stalin
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Rod
The Wednesday Play
as Nelson
Theatre 625
as Lasar Opie