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:
- 193
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Glove
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Electric State 2025-03-13
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-13 |
| Movie | The Glove | 2025 | |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Movie | Skelly | Grandpa | 2024-05-07 |
| 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 |
| Series | Unsinkable | Robert Dodds | 2024-07-10 |
| Movie | Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| 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 |
| Series | Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius | Self | 2023-11-08 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust" | Self - English Narrator (voice) | 2022-01-25 |
| Movie | Ukraine: Answering the Call | Self | 2022-07-03 |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Movie | Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
| Movie | Ooh the Banter! | Self (archive footage) | 2022-12-31 |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-23 |
| Movie | Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) | 2020-05-19 |
| Series | The Infinite Monkey Cage | Presenter | 2020-02-12 |
| 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 | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | Stargazing: Moon and Beyond | Self | 2019-07-16 |
| Movie | Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| 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 Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Self - Host | 2017-04-04 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Movie | The 21st Century Race For Space | Self | 2017-09-05 |
| 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 | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC | Self | 2016-12-23 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-06-26 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Movie | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | The Science of Doctor Who | Self - Presenter | 2013-11-14 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| 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 | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Movie | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
| Movie | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
| 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 | 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 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| 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 | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
| 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 | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| 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 | 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 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
| 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 | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Royal Deceit | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| 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 | 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 | 1985-07-05 |
| 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 |
| Series | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent LeClaire | 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 |
| Movie | A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson | 1965-07-07 |