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:
- 181
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Vivaldi
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024-04-10
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-04-10 |
| Series | Lost & Found | Unknown | 2024 |
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2024 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Bonnie | Self | 2022-08-31 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-01-02 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-10-29 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time | Narrator (archive sound) | 2019-03-20 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2019-05-03 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon | Self | 2019-09-26 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | Captain O'Hagan | 2018-04-19 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
| Movie | The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special | Self - Presenter | 2018-07-13 |
| 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 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Series | War and Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| 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 | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Movie | Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape | Self | 2014-11-09 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Series | Shetland | Magnus Bain | 2013-03-10 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| 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 |
| Series | A Touch of Cloth | Bill Ball | 2012-08-26 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Series | Tooned | The Mechanic | 2012-07-08 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Series | Stargazing Live | Co-Presenter | 2011-01-03 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp | 2011-01-06 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | A Night with the Stars | Self - Presenter | 2011-12-18 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Movie | The Revelation of the Pyramids | Narrator | 2010-02-10 |
| Series | The Big C | 2010-08-16 | |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | 2009-12-28 |
| Movie | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-23 |
| Movie | The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
| 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 | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
| Movie | The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
| Movie | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-10-26 |
| Movie | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Series | The One Show | Unknown | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
| Movie | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | Hitler in Colour | Narrator | 2005-04-30 |
| Movie | Japan's War In Colour | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Movie | Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| 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 |
| Series | Deadwood | Unknown | 2004-03-21 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Series | Lost | Unknown | 2004-09-22 |
| Series | The Tony Danza Show | Unknown | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
| 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 | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
| Movie | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| Series | Top Gear | Unknown | 2002-10-20 |
| Movie | Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
| Movie | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
| Movie | The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-01-20 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | Captain O'Hagan | 2001-02-15 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-20 |
| Series | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | 1939-1945: The Seven Years That Shook the World | 2000-01-01 | |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| 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 | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Series | Superman: The Animated Series | Unknown | 1996-09-06 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-03-14 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Series | Sharpe | Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Series | Frasier | Unknown | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| 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 | The Cutter | 1992-08-10 | |
| Movie | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-01-01 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| Movie | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-01-01 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Series | Red Dwarf | Unknown | 1988-02-15 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Series | French & Saunders | Unknown | 1987-03-09 |
| Movie | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
| 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 |
| Series | Hammer House of Horror | Unknown | 1980-09-13 |
| Series | Minder | Unknown | 1979-10-29 |
| 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 |
| 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 |