Brian Cox
Biography
Movies 202
Troy
as Agamemnon
2004
Braveheart
as Argyle Wallace
1995
Pixels
as Admiral Porter
2015
The Bourne Identity
as Ward Abbott
2002
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
as John Landon
2011
Zodiac
as Melvin Belli
2007
Her
as Alan Watts (voice)
2013
The Bourne Ultimatum
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007
Fantastic Mr. Fox
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2009
The Bourne Supremacy
as Ward Abbott
2004
The Ring
as Richard Morgan
2002
RED
as Ivan Simanov
2010
Super Troopers 3
as Captain O’Hagan
2026
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
as Tommy Tilden
2016
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2024
Trick 'r Treat
as Mr. Kreeg
2007
The Electric State
as Popfly (voice)
2025
RED 2
as Ivan
2013
Match Point
as Alec Hewett
2005
Kiss the Girls
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
1997
Adaptation.
as Robert McKee
2002
The Long Kiss Goodnight
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1996
That Christmas
as Santa (voice)
2024
25th Hour
as James Brogan
2002
Red Eye
as Joe Reisert
2005
Super Troopers
as Captain O'Hagen
2001
The Campaign
as Raymond
2012
Rushmore
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1998
The Water Horse
as Old Angus
2007
The Corruptor
as Sean Wallace
1999
Chain Reaction
as Lyman Earl Collier
1996
Desperate Measures
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1998
For Love of the Game
as Gary Wheeler
1999
Morgan
as Jim Bryce
2016
Forsaken
as James McCurdy
2015
Super Troopers 2
as Captain O'Hagan
2018
Rob Roy
as Killearn
1995
L.I.E.
as Big John Harrigan
2001
Last Moment of Clarity
as Gilles
2020
The Glimmer Man
as Mr. Smith
1996
Ironclad
as Albany
2011
Battle for Terra
as General Hemmer (voice)
2007
Red
as Avery Ludlow
2008
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
as Green Dragon (voice)
2009
The Rookie
as Jim Morris Sr.
2002
Coriolanus
as Menenius
2011
Anna
as Sebastian
2013
Separation
as Rivers
2021
The Boxer
as Joe Hamill
1997
The Affair of the Necklace
as Minister Breteuil
2001
The Bay of Silence
as Milton
2020
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
as Glover
2011
Running with Scissors
as Dr. Finch
2006
Strange but True
as Bill
2019
The Parenting
as Frank
2025
The Ringer
as Gary Barker
2005
The Anomaly
as Dr. Langham
2014
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
2017
Glenrothan
as Sandy
2026
Nicholas and Alexandra
as Trotsky
1971
Churchill
as Winston Churchill
2017
A Shot at Glory
as Martin Smith
2000
Poodle Springs
as Clayton Blackstone
1998
An Adventure in Space and Time
as Sydney Newman
2013
Iron Will
as Angus McTeague
1994
Blood
as Lenny Fairburn
2012
The Independent
as Nick Booker
2022
Quasi
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
as Other Voices (voice)
2004
As Good As Dead
as Reverand Kalahan
2010
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
Prisoner's Daughter
as Max
2023
Hidden Agenda
as Peter Kerrigan
1990
The Flying Scotsman
as Douglas Baxter
2006
Longitude
as Lord Morton
2000
Believe
as Matt Busby
2013
Sharpe's Rifles
as Major Michael Hogan
1993
The Reckoning
as Tobias
2004
The Escapist
as Frank Perry
2008
Prince of Jutland
as Aethelwine
1994
The Good Heart
as Jacques
2009
Ukraine: Answering the Call
as Self
2022
Shoot on Sight
as Daniel Tennant
2007
The Etruscan Smile
as Rory MacNeil
2018
The Last Right
as Father Reilly
2019
Sharpe's Eagle
as Major Michael Hogan
1993
The Lost Language of Cranes
as Owen Benjamin
1992
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
as Narrator
2008
Mending the Line
as Ike Fletcher
2023
Sharpe: The Legend
as Hogan
1997
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
as Narrator
2008
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
as Self
2003
The Secret of the Nutcracker
as Drosselmeyer
2007
Merchants of Venus
as Uncle Vladimir
1998
Florence Nightingale
as Dr. McGregor
1985
Sin
as Captain Oakes
2003
Saltwater
as George Beneventi
2000
Tell-Tale
as Van Doren
2009
The Minus Man
as Doug
1999
The Key Man
as Irving
2011
Home Cooking
as Vic
1986
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
as Self
2002
Little Wing
as Jaan Vari
2024
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
as Narrator (voice)
2021
Blumenthal
as Harold Blumenthal
2013
The Gospel of John
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
2014
The Veteran
as Gerry
2011
Mad About Mambo
as Sidney McLoughlin
2000
The Making of 'Rushmore'
as Self
2000
All at Sea
as Wally
2012
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
as Joseph Bell
2005
The Year of the Sex Olympics
as Lasar Opie
1968
Pope John Paul II
as Father Góra
1984
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
as Narrator
2002
The Negotiator
as Charlie King
1994
Murder on the Moon
as Voronov
1989
Strictly Sinatra
as Chisolm
2001
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
as Self
2003
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
as Self
2022
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
as Narrator (voice)
2023
Exit Humanity
as Malcolm Young (voice)
2011
The Carer
as Sir Michael
2016
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
as Self
2016
Japan's War in Colour
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2005
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
as Jack Purves
1988
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
as Narrator
2002
Bug
as Cyr
2002
Remember Me
as Shane
2019
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
2025
The Marbles
as Self - Interviewee
2025
X2
as William Stryker
2003
Killing Thyme
as Norman
2015
Murder by Numbers
as Self
2004
Pretenders
as Henry
2019
The Sunrise File
as Oded Ailam (voice)
2026
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
as George Simpson
1976
The Invention of Dr. Morel
as Dr. Morel
2000
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2015
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
as Self
2004
Lawrence After Arabia
as Father (Voice)
2020
Food for Ravens
as Aneurin Bevan
1997
The Biographer
as Michael O'Mara
2002
Skelly
as Grandpa
2024
Agent Crush
as Spanners (voice)
2008
Shoot for the Sun
as Dunny
1987
Ooh the Banter!
as Self
2022
Secret Weapon
as Andrew Neil
1990
Pacific Warriors
as Narrator
2015
The Privilege
as Young Laird
1982
Rat in the Skull
as Detective Inspector Nelson
1987
Scotland In A Day
2014
The Curse of Edgar
as Edgar Hoover
2013
Grushko
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994
The Maltese Double Cross
as Narrator (voice)
1994
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
as Self
2009
In Celebration
as Steven Shaw
1975
A Woman in Winter
as Dr. Hunt
2007
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
as Self
2016
The Blasphemers' Banquet
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
1989
Bonnie
as Self
2022
King Lear
as Burgundy
1983
On Expenses
as Michael Martin
2010
The Changeling
as Alsemero
1974
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
as Narrator
1987
AMR: Dying to Change the World
as AMR
2025
Complicity
as Inspector McDunn
2000
Dalhousie's Luck
as Dalhousie
1980
The Outsiders
as Gabriel
2006
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
as Narrator
2002
Witness Against Hitler
as Judge Freisler
1996
Carry On Ken
as Self
2006
Red Fox
as Geoffrey Harrison
1991
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
as Narrator
2002
Old Pals
as Jimmy
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
as Self
1989
Hitler in Colour
as Narrator
2005
The Cutter
1992
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
as Nelson
1965
The Planets
Super Troopers 4
as Captain O'Hagan
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
as Old Man
2012
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
as Voiceover Narrator
1988
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
as John Rebus
2020
The History of the British Police Force
as Narrator (voice)
1999
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
as self
1990
Battle of the Clans
as Narrator
1998
Blue/Orange
as Dr. Robert Smith
2005
An Interview with Brian Cox
as Himself
2023
Just Dandy
as Self
The Cantor of St Thomas's
as Johann Sebastian Bach
1985
A Cotswold Death
as Dr. Gillespie
1982
Widdershins
as voice
2018
An Evening with Brian Cox
as Himself
2017
Deceptions
as Carlton Heard
1992
Kubrick by Candlelight
as The Narrator
2018
Inside 'Manhunter'
as Himself
2001
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
as Narrator
2017
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
The Glove
Manhunter
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1986
Six Characters in Search of An Author
as The Director
1992
Presenting Geraldine Page
TV Shows 106
The Simpsons
as Kostas Becker (voice)
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
The Colbert Report
2005
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
Dexter: Resurrection
as The New York Ripper
2025
Frasier
as Harry Moon
1993
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
as God
2014
The One Show
as Self - Guest
2006
Great Performances
as Self - Narration (voice)
1971
Have I Got News for You
as Self
1990
Top Gear
as Self
2002
Play for Today
as Dr. Gillespie
1970
Richard & Judy
as Self
2001
The Last Leg
as Self
2013
Question Time
as Self - Panellist
1979
Succession
as Logan Roy
2018
Shetland
as Magnus Bain
2013
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist
Red Dwarf
as The King
1988
BBC Play of the Month
as Alsemero
1965
The Wednesday Play
as Nelson
1964
Minder
as Frank
1979
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
as Anubis (voice)
2000
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
Agatha Christie's Marple
as Lewis Serrocold
2004
ITV Playhouse
as Apeman
1967
Superman: The Animated Series
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
1996
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self – Actor
2022
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
as Self - Actor
2022
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
2004
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Josef Stalin
1965
Thirty-Minute Theatre
as Rod
1965
Deadwood
as Jack Langrishe
2004
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
Inspector Morse
as Michael Steppings
1987
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self
2011
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self - Guest
2011
Churchill's People
as William Wallace
1974
Playhouse
as Dalhousie
1974
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
as Self
2017
Penny Dreadful
as Jared Talbot
2014
Theatre 625
as Lasar Opie
1964
Good Omens
as Death (voice)
2019
Sharpe
as Major Hogan
1993
Medici: Masters of Florence
as Bernardo Guadagni
2016
M.I. High
as Voice of the Mastermind
2007
Performance
as The Director
1991
Remembers…
2022
French & Saunders
as King Lear
1987
The Russell Howard Hour
as Self
2017
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
2021
War and Peace
as Mikhail Kutuzov
2016
Van der Valk
as Stefan Szabo
1972
The Colour of Magic
as Narrator
2008
Hammer House of Horror
as Chuck
1980
Kings
as King Vesper Abaddon
2009
Target
as Billy Voss
1977
The Take
as Ozzy
2009
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
as Macbeth (voice)
1992
Manhunt
as Anton
1970
The Slap
as Manolis
2015
A Touch of Cloth
as Bill Ball
2012
Nuremberg
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
2000
The Game
as Daddy
2014
The Day of the Triffids
as Dennis Masen
2009
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
1988
Unsinkable
as Robert Dodds
2024
007: Road to a Million
as The Controller
2023
Piers Morgan Uncensored
as Self
2022
The Sinking of the Laconia
as Captain Sharp
2011
Shades of Greene
as Harry
1975
The Gamblers
as Mickey
1967
Longitude
as Lord Morton
2000
The Straits
as Harry Montebello
2012
Perfect Scoundrels
as Father Amedy
1990
Unnatural Causes
as Vic
1986
Out
as McGrath
1978
Amol Rajan Interviews
as Self - Interviewed Guest
2021
One Life
2003
Tooned
as The Mechanic
2012
The Great War: The People's Story
as Rev. Andrew Clark
2014
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
as Self
2023
House on the Hill
as Leon Douglas
1981
Bob Servant
as Bob Servant
2013
I Love 1990s
2001
The Cloning of Joanna May
as Carl May
1992
Therese Raquin
as Laurent LeClaire
1980
Acting
1987
Stage 2
as Hastings
1971
VE Day 80
as Self
2025
The Big Battalions
as Edward Hoyland
1992
The Devil's Crown
as Henry II
1978
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
as Narrator
1997
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
as Presenter
2022
The Master of Ballantrae
as Henry Durie
1975
Addicted to Pleasure
as Self - Host
2012
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023
Masters of Darkness
as Narrator
2002
Brian Cox's Russia
as Host
2017