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:
- 183
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Glove
- Latest Project:
- Movie Glenrothan 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Glove | 2026 | |
| Movie | Glenrothan | Sandy | 2026 |
| Movie | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-13 |
| Series | Unsinkable | Robert Dodds | 2024-07-10 |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Movie | That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-05 |
| Movie | An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - English Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2017-04-04 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (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 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-02-13 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| 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 | |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| 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 | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | Carry on Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| 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 | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-10 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| 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 | 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 | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | 1939-1945: The Seven Years That Shook the World | 2000-01-01 | |
| Movie | The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Movie | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| 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 | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham PD | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| 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 Cutter | 1992-08-10 | |
| Movie | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
| 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 | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Movie | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
| 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 |
| 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 |