Brian Cox
ActingBrian 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.
Known For
Troy
King Agamemnon
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
Pixels
Admiral Porter
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
RED
Ivan Simanov
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Ring
Richard Morgan
Filmography — Acting
Troy
King Agamemnon
Her
Alan Watts (voice)
Pixels
Admiral Porter
Braveheart
Argyle Wallace
RED
Ivan Simanov
The Bourne Identity
Ward Abbott
Zodiac
Melvin Belli
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
John Landon
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Ring
Richard Morgan
The Electric State
Popfly (voice)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tommy Tilden
The Bourne Supremacy
Ward Abbott
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Helm Hammerhand (voice)
Match Point
Alec Hewett
RED 2
Ivan
The Bourne Ultimatum
Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Red Eye
Joe Reisert
Kiss the Girls
Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
Prince of Jutland
Aethelwine
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Dr. Nathan Waldman
Super Troopers
Captain O'Hagen
Rushmore
Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Ironclad
Albany
Adaptation.
Robert McKee
Chain Reaction
Lyman Earl Collier
Trick 'r Treat
Mr. Kreeg
Forsaken
James McCurdy
The Campaign
Raymond
25th Hour
James Brogan
Rob Roy
Killearn
The Rookie
Jim Morris Sr.
Super Troopers 2
John O'Hagen
That Christmas
Santa (voice)
Morgan
Jim Bryce
Coriolanus
Menenius
The Water Horse
Old Angus
For Love of the Game
Gary Wheeler
Glenrothan
Sandy
The Reckoning
Tobias
Desperate Measures
Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Red
Avery Ludlow
L.I.E.
Big John Harrigan
Last Moment of Clarity
Gilles
Separation
Rivers
Nicholas and Alexandra
Trotsky
Anna
Sebastian
Battle for Terra
General Hemmer (voice)
The Ringer
Gary Barker
The Minus Man
Doug
Iron Will
Angus McTeague
The Boxer
Joe Hamill
The Corruptor
Sean Wallace
The Parenting
Frank
Churchill
Winston Churchill
The Glimmer Man
Mr. Smith
The Good Heart
Jacques
Bonnie
Self
Complicity
Inspector McDunn
The Bay of Silence
Milton
The Veteran
Gerry
Longitude
Lord Morton
Blood
Lenny Fairburn
The Anomaly
Dr. Langham
The Escapist
Frank Perry
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Green Dragon (voice)
Quasi
Narrator (voice)
Strange but True
Bill
Running with Scissors
Dr. Finch
Believe
Matt Busby
The Affair of the Necklace
Minister Breteuil
Little Wing
Jaan Vari
Sin
Captain Oakes
The Independent
Nick Booker
Hidden Agenda
Peter Kerrigan
The Flying Scotsman
Douglas Baxter
Poodle Springs
Clayton Blackstone
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Narrator (voice)
Sharpe's Eagle
Major Michael Hogan
Tell-Tale
Van Doren
The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil
Prisoner's Daughter
Max
Saltwater
George Beneventi
Sharpe's Rifles
Major Michael Hogan
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
Glover
Pope John Paul II
Father Góra
An Adventure in Space and Time
Sydney Newman
Super Troopers 3
Capt. John O’Hagan
Bug
Cyr
The Key Man
Irving
As Good As Dead
Reverend Kalahan
The Lost Language of Cranes
Owen Benjamin
Red Fox
Geoffrey Harrison
Grushko
Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Exit Humanity
Malcolm Young (voice)
A Shot at Glory
Martin Smith
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Other Voices (voice)
The Carer
Sir Michael
Florence Nightingale
Dr. McGregor
King Lear
Burgundy
The Last Right
Father Reilly
Mad About Mambo
Sidney McLoughlin
Sharpe: The Legend
Hogan
Remember Me
Shane
Skelly
Grandpa
Merchants of Venus
Uncle Vladimir
The Marbles
Self - Interviewee
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Strictly Sinatra
Chisolm
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Self
Ooh the Banter!
Self
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
Conrad / Crunch (voice)
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Jack Purves
Carry On Ken
Self
Murder on the Moon
Voronov
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Voiceover Narrator
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Joseph Bell
Agent Crush
Spanners (voice)
The Changeling
Alsemero
Scotland In A Day
The Gospel of John
Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Curse of Edgar
Edgar Hoover
All at Sea
Wally
Mending the Line
Ike Fletcher
The Cloning of Joanna May
Carl May
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Lasar Opie
Shoot on Sight
Daniel Tennant
Blumenthal
Harold Blumenthal
Pretenders
Henry
Rat in the Skull
Detective Inspector Nelson
Shoot for the Sun
Dunny
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
Self
The Outsiders
Gabriel
Secret Weapon
Andrew Neil
Inside 'Manhunter'
Himself
Witness Against Hitler
Judge Freisler
X2
William Stryker
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Self
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Drosselmeyer
Food for Ravens
Aneurin Bevan
Pacific Warriors
Narrator
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
Self
Kubrick by Candlelight
The Narrator
Hitler in Colour
Narrator
The Cutter
Murder by Numbers
Self
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Self
In Celebration
Steven Shaw
A Woman in Winter
Dr. Hunt
Blue/Orange
Dr. Robert Smith
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Self
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
Narrator (voice)
The Negotiator
Charlie King
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
Self
The Invention of Dr. Morel
Dr. Morel
Deceptions
Carlton Heard
The Planets
Home Cooking
Vic
The Glove
Wittgenstein's Poker
Bertrand Russell (voice)
On Expenses
Dalhousie's Luck
Dalhousie
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Narrator
Widdershins
voice
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Narrator
The History of the British Police Force
Narrator (voice)
Japan's War in Colour
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nuremberg
Herman Wilhelm Goering
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
Self
Old Pals
Jimmy
The Privilege
Young Laird
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
Andrew Carnegie (voice)
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Rev. Wallace (voice)
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Narrator
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
Narrator
Lawrence After Arabia
Father (Voice)
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Director
The Biographer
Michael O'Mara
Killing Thyme
Norman
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Old Man
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
Narrator
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
George Simpson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Narrator
A Cotswold Death
Dr. Gillespie
An Evening with Brian Cox
Himself
The Sunrise File
Oded Ailam (voice)
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
John Rebus
The Maltese Double Cross
Narrator (voice)
Battle of the Clans
Narrator
An Interview with Brian Cox
Himself
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
Self
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Nelson
Manhunter
Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
AMR: Dying to Change the World
AMR
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Johann Sebastian Bach
A Modern Magician
The Voice