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:
- 143
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 2024-12-11
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Vivaldi | Merlino | 2025 |
| Movie | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
| Movie | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-11 |
| Movie | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
| Movie | There Are No Saints | 2022-05-27 | |
| Movie | Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
| Movie | Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-01-02 |
| Movie | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
| Movie | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2019-05-03 |
| Movie | Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
| Movie | Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
| Series | Good Omens | Death (Voice) | 2019-05-31 |
| Movie | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
| Series | Succession | Logan Roy | 2018-06-03 |
| Movie | Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon | Marlon Brando | 2018 |
| Movie | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
| Movie | Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
| Series | War and Peace | General Mikhail Kutuzov | 2016-01-03 |
| Movie | The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
| Movie | The Entire Universe | Self - Presenter | 2016-12-26 |
| Movie | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
| Movie | Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
| Movie | Absolutely Anything | Self | 2015-06-26 |
| Series | The Slap | Manolis | 2015-02-12 |
| Movie | Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
| Movie | Pacific Warriors | Narrator | 2015-09-10 |
| Movie | Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
| Movie | X-Men: Days of Future Past | William Stryker (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2014-05-15 |
| Series | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2014-05-11 |
| Movie | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
| Movie | Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
| Movie | Monty Python: The Meaning of Live | Self | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
| Movie | Monty Python Live (Mostly) | Self | 2014-07-20 |
| Series | The Game | Daddy | 2014-11-05 |
| Series | The Great War: The People's Story | Rev. Andrew Clark | 2014-08-10 |
| Movie | RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
| Movie | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
| Movie | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
| Movie | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
| Movie | Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
| Movie | Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
| Movie | Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
| Movie | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
| Movie | Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
| Series | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 2012-02-02 |
| Movie | Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
| Series | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Sharp, RMS Laconia | 2011-01-06 |
| Movie | The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
| Movie | The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
| Movie | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
| Movie | Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
| Series | Wonders of the Universe | Himself - Presenter | 2011-03-06 |
| Movie | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
| Movie | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
| Series | Wonders of the Solar System | Presenter | 2010-03-07 |
| Movie | On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
| Movie | RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
| Movie | The Invocation | Self | 2010-09-01 |
| Movie | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
| Movie | Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2008-08-22 |
| Movie | Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
| Series | The Colour of Magic | Erzähler | 2008-03-23 |
| 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 | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
| 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 | 2007-12-09 |
| Movie | Carry on Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
| Movie | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
| Series | The Outsiders | 2006-10-03 | |
| Series | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
| Movie | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
| Movie | The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
| Movie | Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-19 |
| Movie | End Day | Self | 2005-04-21 |
| Movie | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
| Movie | Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
| Movie | The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
| Movie | Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
| Movie | X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
| Movie | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2 | Himself | 2003-11-25 |
| Movie | Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
| Movie | Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
| 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 | 25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
| Movie | Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
| Movie | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
| Movie | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
| Movie | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
| Movie | Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
| Movie | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
| Movie | Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
| Series | Nuremberg | Herman Wilhelm Goering | 2000-07-16 |
| Movie | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
| Movie | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
| Movie | The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
| Movie | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
| Movie | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
| Movie | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
| Movie | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
| Movie | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. | 1997-09-29 |
| Movie | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
| Movie | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
| Movie | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
| Movie | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
| Movie | Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
| Movie | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
| Movie | Royal Deceit | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
| Movie | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
| Movie | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
| Movie | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
| Movie | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
| Movie | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-12-08 |
| Movie | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
| Movie | Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-05-09 |
| Movie | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
| Movie | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
| Movie | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
| Movie | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-07-05 |
| Movie | Pope John Paul II | Father Góra | 1984-04-22 |
| Movie | King Lear | Burgundy | 1983-04-03 |
| Series | Out | 1978-07-24 | |
| Movie | In Celebration | Steven Shaw | 1975-03-17 |
| Movie | The Changeling | Alsemero | 1974-01-20 |
| Movie | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
| Movie | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |