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Brian Cox
Brian Cox

Brian Cox

ActingBorn June 1, 1946 (age 80)Dundee, Scotland, UK

Biography

Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander. Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. He went on to train as a Shakespearean actor, starring in numerous productions with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Rat in the Skull (1984), for Royal Court, and Titus Andronicus (1988). He received two more Olivier Award nominations for Misalliance (1986) and Fashion (1988). Known as a character actor in film, he played Robert McKee in Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) and William Stryker in X2 (2003). For his starring role in L.I.E. (2001), he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other notable films include Manhunter (1986), Iron Will (1994), Braveheart (1995), The Boxer (1997), The Rookie (2002), Troy (2004), Match Point (2005), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Coriolanus (2011), Pixels (2015), and Churchill (2017). Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in the television film Nuremberg (2001). The following year, he guest starred on the NBC sitcom Frasier, earning his second Emmy nomination in 2002. He portrayed Jack Langrishe in the HBO series Deadwood. He starred as Logan Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018-2023), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

Filmography

2026
Super Troopers 3

as Capt. John O’Hagan

Movie
2026
The Sunrise File

as Oded Ailam (voice)

Movie
2026
Glenrothan

as Sandy

Movie
2025
The Marbles

as Self - Interviewee

Movie
2025
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction

as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)

Movie
2025
Dexter: Resurrection

as New York Ripper

TV
2025
VE Day 80

as Self

TV
2025Movie
2025
The Electric State

as Popfly (voice)

Movie
2024Movie
2024
That Christmas

as Santa (voice)

Movie
2024
Unsinkable

as Robert Dodds

TV
2024
Skelly

as Grandpa

Movie
2024
Little Wing

as Jaan Vari

Movie
2023
007: Road to a Million

as The Controller

TV
2023
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2023Movie
2023
Mending the Line

as Ike Fletcher

Movie
2023
Quasi

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2023Movie
2022Movie
2022
Bonnie

as Self

Movie
2022
The Independent

as Nick Booker

Movie
2022TV
2022TV
2021
Blade Runner: Black Lotus

as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)

TV
2021
Amol Rajan Interviews

as Self - Interviewed Guest

TV
2021
Separation

as Rivers

Movie
2021
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2020Movie
2020Movie
2020Movie
2020
Lawrence After Arabia

as Father (Voice)

Movie
2019
The Last Right

as Father Reilly

Movie
2019Movie
2019
Pretenders

as Henry

Movie
2019
Remember Me

as Shane

Movie
2019
Good Omens

as Death (voice)

TV
2018
Kubrick by Candlelight

as The Narrator

Movie
2018
Widdershins

as voice

Movie
2018
Succession

as Logan Roy

TV
2018
Super Troopers 2

as John O'Hagen

Movie
2018
The Etruscan Smile

as Rory MacNeil

Movie
2017Movie
2017Movie
2017
Churchill

as Winston Churchill

Movie
2017TV
2016Movie
2016
Medici: Masters of Florence

as Bernardo Guadagni

TV
2016
Morgan

as Jim Bryce

Movie
2016
The Carer

as Sir Michael

Movie
2016
War and Peace

as Mikhail Kutuzov

TV
2015
Killing Thyme

as Norman

Movie
2015
Forsaken

as James McCurdy

Movie
2015
Pacific Warriors

as Narrator

Movie
2015
Pixels

as Admiral Porter

Movie
2015Movie
2015
The Slap

as Manolis

TV
2014
The Gospel of John

as Narrator (voice) – King James Version

Movie
2014
The Game

as Daddy

TV
2014TV
2014
The Anomaly

as Dr. Langham

Movie
2014
Penny Dreadful

as Jared Talbot

TV
2013
Her

as Alan Watts (voice)

Movie
2013Movie
2013
The Curse of Edgar

as Edgar Hoover

Movie
2013
Anna

as Sebastian

Movie
2013
Believe

as Matt Busby

Movie
2013
Blumenthal

as Harold Blumenthal

Movie
2013
RED 2

as Ivan

Movie
2013
Shetland

as Magnus Bain

TV
2013TV
2013
Bob Servant

as Bob Servant

TV
2012
Addicted to Pleasure

as Self - Host

TV
2012
Blood

as Lenny Fairburn

Movie
2012
A Touch of Cloth

as Bill Ball

TV
2012
The Campaign

as Raymond

Movie
2012
Tooned

as The Mechanic

TV
2012
All at Sea

as Wally

Movie
2012
The Straits

as Harry Montebello

TV
2012Movie
2011
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

as Self - Participant

TV
2011
Exit Humanity

as Malcolm Young (voice)

Movie
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2011Movie
2011
The Veteran

as Gerry

Movie
2011
Ironclad

as Albany

Movie
2011
The Key Man

as Irving

Movie
2011
Coriolanus

as Menenius

Movie
2011TV
2010
RED

as Ivan Simanov

Movie
2010
On Expenses

as Michael Martin

Movie
2010
As Good As Dead

as Reverend Kalahan

Movie
2009TV
2009
Fantastic Mr. Fox

as Action 12 Reporter (voice)

Movie
2009Movie
2009
The Good Heart

as Jacques

Movie
2009
The Take

as Ozzy

TV
2009
Tell-Tale

as Van Doren

Movie
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

as Green Dragon (voice)

Movie
2009
Kings

as King Vesper Abaddon

TV
2008
Red

as Avery Ludlow

Movie
2008
The Escapist

as Frank Perry

Movie
2008TV
2008
Agent Crush

as Spanners (voice)

Movie
2007
The Water Horse

as Old Angus

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Shoot on Sight

as Daniel Tennant

Movie
2007
Trick 'r Treat

as Mr. Kreeg

Movie
2007
Battle for Terra

as General Hemmer (voice)

Movie
2007
The Bourne Ultimatum

as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Movie
2007Movie
2007
Zodiac

as Melvin Belli

Movie
2007
M.I. High

as Voice of the Mastermind

TV
2006Movie
2006
The Outsiders

as Gabriel

Movie
2006
The Flying Scotsman

as Douglas Baxter

Movie
2006
The One Show

as Self - Guest

TV
2006Movie
2005
The Ringer

as Gary Barker

Movie
2005
Match Point

as Alec Hewett

Movie
2005
Red Eye

as Joe Reisert

Movie
2005
Hitler in Colour

as Narrator

Movie
2005
Blue/Orange

as Dr. Robert Smith

Movie
2005
Japan's War in Colour

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Movie
2004TV
2004
The Bourne Supremacy

as Ward Abbott

Movie
2004
Troy

as King Agamemnon

Movie
2004
Deadwood

as Jack Langrishe

TV
2004Movie
2004
The Reckoning

as Tobias

Movie
2003TV
2003
X2

as William Stryker

Movie
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

TV
2003
Sin

as Captain Oakes

Movie
2002
25th Hour

as James Brogan

Movie
2002
Adaptation.

as Robert McKee

Movie
2002
Top Gear

as Self

TV
2002
The Ring

as Richard Morgan

Movie
2002
The Biographer

as Michael O'Mara

Movie
2002
The Bourne Identity

as Ward Abbott

Movie
2002
The Rookie

as Jim Morris Sr.

Movie
2002
Bug

as Cyr

Movie
2002TV
2002Movie
2001
The Affair of the Necklace

as Minister Breteuil

Movie
2001TV
2001
L.I.E.

as Big John Harrigan

Movie
2001Movie
2001
Super Troopers

as Captain O'Hagen

Movie
2001Movie
2000
Aqua Teen Hunger Force

as Anubis (voice)

TV
2000
Saltwater

as George Beneventi

Movie
2000
Nuremberg

as Herman Wilhelm Goering

TV
2000
Complicity

as Inspector McDunn

Movie
2000
A Shot at Glory

as Martin Smith

Movie
2000
Mad About Mambo

as Sidney McLoughlin

Movie
2000Movie
2000Movie
2000
Longitude

as Lord Morton

Movie
2000
Longitude

as Lord Morton

TV
1999Movie
1999Movie
1999
For Love of the Game

as Gary Wheeler

Movie
1999
The Corruptor

as Sean Wallace

Movie
1998
Rushmore

as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

Movie
1998
Poodle Springs

as Clayton Blackstone

Movie
1998Movie
1998
Merchants of Venus

as Uncle Vladimir

Movie
1998
Desperate Measures

as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

Movie
1997
The Boxer

as Joe Hamill

Movie
1997
Food for Ravens

as Aneurin Bevan

Movie
1997Movie
1997
Kiss the Girls

as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD

Movie
1996
The Long Kiss Goodnight

as Dr. Nathan Waldman

Movie
1996
The Glimmer Man

as Mr. Smith

Movie
1996
Superman: The Animated Series

as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)

TV
1996
Chain Reaction

as Lyman Earl Collier

Movie
1996TV
1996
Witness Against Hitler

as Judge Freisler

Movie
1995
Braveheart

as Argyle Wallace

Movie
1995
Rob Roy

as Killearn

Movie
1994
The Maltese Double Cross

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
1994
The Negotiator

as Charlie King

Movie
1994
Grushko

as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

Movie
1994
Prince of Jutland

as Aethelwine

Movie
1994
Iron Will

as Angus McTeague

Movie
1993
Frasier

as Harry Moon

TV
1993
Sharpe's Eagle

as Major Michael Hogan

Movie
1993
Sharpe's Rifles

as Major Michael Hogan

Movie
1993
Sharpe

as Major Hogan

TV
1992
The Big Battalions

as Edward Hoyland

TV
1992TV
1992Movie
1992Movie
1992Movie
1992TV
1992
Deceptions

as Carlton Heard

Movie
1991
Red Fox

as Geoffrey Harrison

Movie
1991
Performance

as The Director

TV
1990
Hidden Agenda

as Peter Kerrigan

Movie
1990
Perfect Scoundrels

as Father Amedy

TV
1990
Secret Weapon

as Andrew Neil

Movie
1989
The Simpsons

as Kostas Becker (voice)

TV
1989
The Blasphemers' Banquet

as Rev. Wallace (voice)

Movie
1989Movie
1988
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

as Voiceover Narrator

Movie
1988TV
1988Movie
1988
Red Dwarf

as The King

TV
1988TV
1987TV
1987Movie
1987
French & Saunders

as King Lear

TV
1987
Inspector Morse

as Michael Steppings

TV
1987
Rat in the Skull

as Detective Inspector Nelson

Movie
1986Movie
1986TV
1986
Manhunter

as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor

Movie
1985
Florence Nightingale

as Dr. McGregor

Movie
1985
The Cantor of St Thomas's

as Johann Sebastian Bach

Movie
1984
Pope John Paul II

as Father Góra

Movie
1983
King Lear

as Burgundy

Movie
1982
A Cotswold Death

as Dr. Gillespie

Movie
1982
The Privilege

as Young Laird

Movie
1981
House on the Hill

as Leon Douglas

TV
1980
Dalhousie's Luck

as Dalhousie

Movie
1980
Therese Raquin

as Laurent LeClaire

TV
1979
Minder

as Frank

TV
1979
Question Time

as Self - Panellist

TV
1978
Out

as McGrath

TV
1978TV
1977
Target

as Billy Voss

TV
1976Movie
1975TV
1975
In Celebration

as Steven Shaw

Movie
1974
Churchill's People

as William Wallace

TV
1974
Playhouse

as Dalhousie

TV
1974
The Changeling

as Alsemero

Movie
1972
Van der Valk

as Stefan Szabo

TV
1971Movie
1971
Great Performances

as Self - Narration (voice)

TV
1970
Play for Today

as Dr. Gillespie

TV
1970
Manhunt

as Anton

TV
1968Movie
1967
The Gamblers

as Mickey

TV
1967
ITV Playhouse

as Apeman

TV
1965TV
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre

as Josef Stalin

TV
1964TV
1964
Theatre 625

as Lasar Opie

TV
A Modern Magician

as The Voice

Movie
Movie
Movie
Wittgenstein's Poker

as Bertrand Russell (voice)

Movie
Old Pals

as Jimmy

Movie
TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJune 1, 1946
Place of BirthDundee, Scotland, UK
Popularity3.0
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