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:
- 191
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Riff Raff
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Independent 2022-11-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Electric State | 2024 | |
| Series | Lost & Found | Unknown | 2024 |
| Movie | Riff Raff | 2024 | |
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2024 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
| Series | Blade Runner: Black Lotus | Niander Wallace Sr. (voice) | 2021-11-14 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-10-29 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Movie | Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
| Movie | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self | 2019-07-08 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | Captain O'Hagan | 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 | Brian Cox: Life Of A Universe | Self - Presenter | 2017-03-07 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Movie | Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation | Narrator | 2017-02-18 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-06-26 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) | 2015-07-01 |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Series | Shetland | Magnus Bain | 2013-03-10 |
| Series | Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 2013-01-23 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| 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 | The Science of Doctor Who | Self - Presenter | 2013-11-19 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Series | Science Britannica | Self - Presenter | 2013-09-18 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Series | Tooned | The Mechanic | 2012-07-08 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Series | A Touch of Cloth | Bill Ball | 2012-08-26 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| 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 | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Series | The Big C | 2010-08-16 | |
| Series | Wonders of the Solar System | Self - Presenter | 2010-03-07 |
| Movie | The Revelation of the Pyramids | Narrator | 2010-02-10 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| 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 | The Big Bang Machine | Self - Presenter | 2008-08-23 |
| Movie | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Movie | The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | 2008-03-23 |
| 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 | 2007-10-26 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Japan's War In Colour | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
| Movie | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Hitler in Colour | Narrator | 2005-04-30 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | 2004-09-13 | |
| Series | Lost | Unknown | 2004-09-22 |
| Series | Deadwood | Unknown | 2004-03-21 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-03 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Series | One Life | Unknown | 2003-09-24 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Series | Top Gear | Unknown | 2002-10-20 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-01-20 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-20 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | Captain O'Hagan | 2001-02-15 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Movie | 1939-1945: The Seven Years That Shook the World | 2000-01-01 | |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| 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 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| 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 | 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 | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Series | Superman: The Animated Series | Unknown | 1996-09-06 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Royal Deceit | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Series | Frasier | Unknown | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Series | Sharpe | Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| 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 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Series | Red Dwarf | Unknown | 1988-02-15 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| Series | French & Saunders | Unknown | 1987-03-09 |
| Series | Inspector Morse | Unknown | 1987-01-06 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-07-05 |
| Movie | King Lear | Burgundy | 1983-04-03 |
| Movie | The Privilege | Young Laird | 1982-01-01 |
| Series | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent LeClaire | 1980-03-12 |
| Series | Hammer House of Horror | Unknown | 1980-09-13 |
| Series | Minder | Unknown | 1979-10-29 |
| Series | Out | 1978-07-24 | |
| Series | The Devil's Crown | Henry II of England | 1978-04-30 |
| 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 |
| Series | Van der Valk | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
| Series | Play for Today | Unknown | 1970-10-15 |
| Movie | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |