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:
- 194
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Super Troopers 3
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Electric State 2025-03-07
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2026 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 3 | Capt. John O’Hagan | 2026 |
| Movie | The Glove | 2026 | |
| Movie | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-07 |
| 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 | That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| Movie | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Movie | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Movie | Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Series | Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius | Self | 2023-11-08 |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - English Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Ooh the Banter! | Self | 2022-12-31 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-23 |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Self - Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | Strange But True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| 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 | 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 / Crunch (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| 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 |
| Series | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox | Self - Presenter | 2016-07-04 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-02-13 |
| 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 | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| 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 | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| 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 | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-14 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| 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 | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2007-12-15 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | The Bourne Ultimatum | Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2007-08-03 |
| 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 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-10 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | 2004-09-13 | |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 2003-05-20 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making 'X2' | 2003-11-25 | |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| 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 | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| 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 | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| 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 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Movie | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| 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 | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Big Battalions | Edward Hoyland | 1992-11-19 |
| Movie | The Cutter | 1992-08-10 | |
| 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 | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-04-07 |
| 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 | 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 |