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