Troy2004
As Agamemnon
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Brian Cox
Born
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 (202)
Braveheart1995
As Argyle Wallace
TMDb 7.9 / 10
Zodiac2007
As Melvin Belli
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011
As John Landon
TMDb 7.4 / 10
The Bourne Identity2002
As Ward Abbott
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Pixels2015
As Admiral Porter
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Her2013
As Alan Watts (voice)
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Bourne Ultimatum2007
As Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.4 / 10
The Bourne Supremacy2004
As Ward Abbott
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Fantastic Mr. Fox2009
As Action 12 Reporter (voice)
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Ring2002
As Richard Morgan
TMDb 6.7 / 10
RED2010
As Ivan Simanov
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim2024
As Helm Hammerhand (voice)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Autopsy of Jane Doe2016
As Tommy Tilden
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Kiss the Girls1997
As Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Electric State2025
As Popfly (voice)
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Anna2013
As Sebastian
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Morgan2016
As Jim Bryce
TMDb 5.8 / 10
RED 22013
As Ivan
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Adaptation.2002
As Robert McKee
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Red Eye2005
As Joe Reisert
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Long Kiss Goodnight1996
As Dr. Nathan Waldman
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Chain Reaction1996
As Lyman Earl Collier
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Match Point2005
As Alec Hewett
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Trick 'r Treat2007
As Mr. Kreeg
TMDb 7.0 / 10
25th Hour2002
As James Brogan
TMDb 7.3 / 10
The Corruptor1999
As Sean Wallace
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Rushmore1998
As Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Super Troopers2001
As Captain O'Hagen
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Parenting2025
As Frank
TMDb 6.1 / 10
That Christmas2024
As Santa (voice)
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Rob Roy1995
As Killearn
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Campaign2012
As Raymond
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Rookie2002
As Jim Morris Sr.
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Water Horse2007
As Old Angus
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Super Troopers 32026
As Captain O’Hagan
TMDb 6.5 / 10
For Love of the Game1999
As Gary Wheeler
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Desperate Measures1998
As Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Escapist2008
As Frank Perry
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Coriolanus2011
As Menenius
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Anomaly2014
As Dr. Langham
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Glenrothan2026
As Sandy
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Glimmer Man1996
As Mr. Smith
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Forsaken2015
As James McCurdy
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Ironclad2011
As Albany
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Bay of Silence2020
As Milton
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Super Troopers 22018
As Captain O'Hagan
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Battle for Terra2007
As General Hemmer (voice)
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Prisoner's Daughter2023
As Max
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Flying Scotsman2006
As Douglas Baxter
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword2009
As Green Dragon (voice)
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Hidden Agenda1990
As Peter Kerrigan
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster2011
As Glover
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines2017
As Conrad / Crunch (voice)
TMDb 8.3 / 10
The Reckoning2004
As Tobias
TMDb 6.4 / 10
The Ringer2005
As Gary Barker
TMDb 5.7 / 10
The Veteran2011
As Gerry
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Minus Man1999
As Doug
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Blood2012
As Lenny Fairburn
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Last Moment of Clarity2020
As Gilles
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Independent2022
As Nick Booker
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Strange but True2019
As Bill
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Color of Magic 2in12010
As Vypravěč
Mending the Line2023
As Ike Fletcher
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Killing Thyme2015
As Norman
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Iron Will1994
As Angus McTeague
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Remember Me2019
As Shane
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Red2008
As Avery Ludlow
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Poodle Springs1998
As Clayton Blackstone
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Separation2021
As Rivers
TMDb 5.6 / 10
The Boxer1997
As Joe Hamill
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Agent Crush2008
As Spanners (voice)
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Churchill2017
As Winston Churchill
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Nicholas and Alexandra1971
As Trotsky
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Quasi2023
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Marbles2025
As Self - Interviewee
Bonnie2022
As Self
TMDb 5.3 / 10
L.I.E.2001
As Big John Harrigan
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Home Cooking1986
As Vic
Running with Scissors2006
As Dr. Finch
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Good Heart2009
As Jacques
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Little Wing2024
As Jaan Vari
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Wittgenstein's Poker
Wittgenstein's PokerRelease date TBA
As Bertrand Russell (voice)
Longitude2000
As Lord Morton
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Tell-Tale2009
As Van Doren
TMDb 5.3 / 10
The Affair of the Necklace2001
As Minister Breteuil
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Shoot on Sight2007
As Daniel Tennant
TMDb 6.2 / 10
As Good As Dead2010
As Reverand Kalahan
TMDb 5.0 / 10
The Carer2016
As Sir Michael
TMDb 6.6 / 10
The Etruscan Smile2018
As Rory MacNeil
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Inside 'Manhunter'2001
As Himself
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Sunrise File2026
As Oded Ailam (voice)
The Negotiator1994
As Charlie King
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Sharpe's Rifles1993
As Major Michael Hogan
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Skelly2024
As Grandpa
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Exit Humanity2011
As Malcolm Young (voice)
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The PlanetsRelease date TBA
Florence Nightingale1985
As Dr. McGregor
TMDb 6.1 / 10
An Adventure in Space and Time2013
As Sydney Newman
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Privilege1982
As Young Laird
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Outsiders
The Outsiders2006
As Gabriel
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Blumenthal
Blumenthal2013
As Harold Blumenthal
TMDb 4.0 / 10
Sin2003
As Captain Oakes
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Old Pals
Old PalsRelease date TBA
As Jimmy
The Cutter1992
Merchants of Venus1998
As Uncle Vladimir
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Mad About Mambo2000
As Sidney McLoughlin
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Ukraine: Answering the Call2022
As Self
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction2025
As Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Prince of Jutland1994
As Aethelwine
TMDb 5.4 / 10
The Last Right2019
As Father Reilly
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson2004
As Other Voices (voice)
TMDb 7.2 / 10
A Shot at Glory2000
As Martin Smith
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Sharpe: The Legend1997
As Hogan
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Complicity2000
As Inspector McDunn
TMDb 5.8 / 10
Secret Weapon1990
As Andrew Neil
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Lost Language of Cranes1992
As Owen Benjamin
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Key Man2011
As Irving
TMDb 3.7 / 10
The Biographer2002
As Michael O'Mara
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Believe2013
As Matt Busby
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The History of the British Police Force
The History of the British Police Force1999
As Narrator (voice)
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun1988
As Jack Purves
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Year of the Sex Olympics1968
As Lasar Opie
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Pacific Warriors2015
As Narrator
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 12008
As Narrator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon2002
As Narrator
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 22008
As Narrator
TMDb 6.5 / 10
King Lear1983
As Burgundy
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba2022
As Self
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Strictly Sinatra2001
As Chisolm
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Pope John Paul II1984
As Father Góra
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Red Fox1991
As Geoffrey Harrison
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Japan's War in Colour2005
As Self - Narrator (voice)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Super Troopers 4
Super Troopers 4Release date TBA
As Captain O'Hagan
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X22003
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Hitler in Colour2005
As Narrator
TMDb 7.9 / 10
On Expenses2010
As Michael Martin
The Gospel of John2014
As Narrator (voice) – King James Version
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?2004
As Self
TMDb 2.0 / 10
Brian Cox's Jute Journey2009
As Self
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky1988
As Voiceover Narrator
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Bug2002
As Cyr
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle2005
As Joseph Bell
TMDb 6.6 / 10
All at Sea2012
As Wally
TMDb 4.5 / 10
Saltwater2000
As George Beneventi
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Changeling1974
As Alsemero
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend2023
As Narrator (voice)
Dalhousie's Luck1980
As Dalhousie
Rat in the Skull
Rat in the Skull1987
As Detective Inspector Nelson
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden1976
As George Simpson
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Ooh the Banter!2022
As Self
Carry On Ken2006
As Self
Battle of the Clans1998
As Narrator
Pretenders2019
As Henry
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Making of 'Rushmore'2000
As Self
TMDb 6.2 / 10
The Invention of Dr. Morel2000
As Dr. Morel
TMDb 8.0 / 10
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
I Missed My Mother's Funeral2012
As Old Man
Blue/Orange2005
As Dr. Robert Smith
TMDb 6.7 / 10
A Modern MagicianRelease date TBA
As The Voice
Grushko1994
As Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
TMDb 7.5 / 10
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker2003
As Self
TMDb 7.3 / 10
X22003
As William Stryker
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Blasphemers' Banquet1989
As Rev. Wallace (voice)
The GloveRelease date TBA
Murder on the Moon1989
As Voronov
TMDb 3.8 / 10
Kubrick by Candlelight2018
As The Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Curse of Edgar2013
As Edgar Hoover
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Secret of the Nutcracker2007
As Drosselmeyer
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Food for Ravens1997
As Aneurin Bevan
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Trials of Henry Kissinger2002
As Self
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Lawrence After Arabia2020
As Father (Voice)
TMDb 4.2 / 10
A Cotswold Death1982
As Dr. Gillespie
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A Woman in Winter2007
As Dr. Hunt
TMDb 7.5 / 10
An Interview with Brian Cox2023
As Himself
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'1990
As self
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story2021
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Witness Against Hitler1996
As Judge Freisler
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Shoot for the Sun1987
As Dunny
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
A Knight in Tarnished Armour1965
As Nelson
TMDb 7.0 / 10
In Celebration1975
As Steven Shaw
TMDb 5.2 / 10
The Maltese Double Cross1994
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Six Characters in Search of An Author1992
As The Director
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Sharpe's Eagle1993
As Major Michael Hogan
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh2002
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace2015
As Andrew Carnegie (voice)
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Murder by Numbers2004
As Self
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Scotland In A Day
Scotland In A Day2014
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light2016
As Self
Widdershins2018
As voice
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World2002
As Narrator
TMDb 7.0 / 10
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues2020
As John Rebus
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch2002
As Narrator
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People1987
As Narrator
Deceptions1992
As Carlton Heard
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC2016
As Self
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation2017
As Narrator
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy1989
As Self
AMR: Dying to Change the World
AMR: Dying to Change the World2025
As AMR
The Cantor of St Thomas's1985
As Johann Sebastian Bach
TMDb 7.0 / 10
An Evening with Brian Cox
An Evening with Brian Cox2017
As Himself
Manhunter1986
As Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
TMDb 7.0 / 10
NurembergRelease date TBA
As Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
Filmography and biography: TMDb