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:
- 182
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Glenrothan
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Electric State 2025-03-13
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Glenrothan | Sandy | 2026 |
| Movie | The Glove | 2026 | |
| Movie | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-13 |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| 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 | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - English Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| 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 | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Movie | Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| 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 | 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 | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | William Stryker (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-05-15 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| 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 | |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| 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 | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| Series | The Take | Ozzy | 2009-06-17 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| 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 | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| 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 | 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 | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | 2003-11-25 | |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| 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 | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| 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 | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | 1939-1945: The Seven Years That Shook the World | 2000-01-01 | |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| 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 | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham PD | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 |