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Scottish actor Brian Cox has appeared in various films and television series such as Manhunter (1986), Rob Roy and Braveheart (both 1995), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Nuremberg (2000), Super Troopers (2001), The Bourne Identity, The Ring and Adaptation (all 2002), X2 (2003), Troy (2004), Red Eye (2005), Deadwood (2006), Zodiac (2007), Red (2008), Red (2010), Coriolanus and Rise of the Planet of the Apes (both 2011), Red 2 (2013), Succession (2018–2023), Good Omens (2019), and Last Moment of Clarity (2020).
He has also appeared in various theatre productions such as The Music Man (1994), St. Nicholas (1999), Dublin Carol (2000), Uncle Varick (2004), Rock 'n' Roll (2006–2008) That Championship Season (2011), and The Weir (2014).
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Leon Trotsky | |
| 1975 | In Celebration | Steven Shaw | |
| 1986 | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | |
| 1990 | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | |
| 1993 | The Eye of Vichy | Narrator | Documentary |
| 1994 | Iron Will | Angus McTeague | |
| Prince of Jutland | Æthelwine of Lindsey | ||
| 1995 | Rob Roy | Killearn | |
| Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | ||
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | |
| The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | ||
| The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | ||
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield | |
| The Boxer | Joe Hamill | ||
| Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | Profile drama | |
| 1998 | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | |
| Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | ||
| The Minus Man | Doug Durwin | ||
| The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | ||
| For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | ||
| 2000 | Complicity | Inspector McDunn | |
| Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | ||
| A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | ||
| Saltwater | George Beneventi | ||
| 2001 | Super Troopers | Captain John O'Hagen | |
| L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | ||
| Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | ||
| The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Baron de Breteuil | ||
| 2002 | Bug | Cyr | |
| The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | ||
| The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | ||
| The Ring | Richard Morgan | ||
| Adaptation. | Robert McKee | ||
| 25th Hour | James Brogan | ||
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 2003 | X2 | William Stryker | |
| Sin | Captain Oakes | ||
| 2004 | The Reckoning | Tobias | |
| Troy | Agamemnon | ||
| The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | ||
| Get the Picture | Harry Sondheim | Short film | |
| 2005 | Match Point | Alec Hewett | |
| Red Eye | Joe Reisert | ||
| The Ringer | Gary Barker | ||
| 2006 | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | |
| The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | ||
| Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | ||
| 2007 | Zodiac | Melvin Belli | |
| Battle for Terra | General Hemmer | Voice | |
| The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep | Old Angus | ||
| Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | ||
| Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | ||
| 2008 | Red | Avery Ludlow | |
| The Escapist | Frank Perry | ||
| Agent Crush | Spanners | Voice | |
| 2009 | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon | Voice Direct-to-DVD |
| Tell-Tale | Detective Van Doren | ||
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | Dan Peabody | Voice | |
| The Good Heart | Jacques | ||
| 2010 | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | |
| Red | Ivan Simanov | ||
| As Good as Dead | Reverend Kalahan | ||
| 2011 | Coriolanus | Menenius Agrippa | |
| Ironclad | William d'Aubigny | ||
| The Veteran | Gerry | ||
| Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | ||
| Citizen Gangster | Glover Boyd | ||
| Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young | Voice | |
| The Revelation of the Pyramids | Narrator | Documentary | |
| 2012 | The Campaign | Raymond Huggins | |
| My City | The Journalist | Short film | |
| Blood | Lanny Fairburn | ||
| 2013 | Red 2 | Ivan Simanov | |
| Blumenthal | Harold | ||
| Mindscape | Sebastian | ||
| Her | Alan Watts | Voice | |
| Believe | Sir Matt Busby | ||
| 2014 | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | |
| 2015 | Pixels | Admiral Porter | |
| Forsaken | James McCurdy | ||
| Killing Thyme | Norman | Short film | |
| 2016 | Morgan | Jim Bryce | |
| The Carer | Sir Michael Gifford | ||
| The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | ||
| 2017 | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines | Conrad / Crunch | Voices |
| Churchill | Winston Churchill | ||
| Kubrick By Candlelight | Narrator | Short film | |
| 2018 | Super Troopers 2 | Captain John O'Hagan | |
| The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | Also released under the title, Rory's Way | |
| The Pretenders | Henry | ||
| 2019 | Remember Me | Shane | |
| Strange but True | Bill Erwin | ||
| The Last Right | Father Reilly | ||
| 2020 | John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus | Short film |
| Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | ||
| The Bay of Silence | Milton | ||
| 2021 | Separation | Paul Rivers | |
| 2022 | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | |
| Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | ||
| The Independent | Nick Booker | ||
| 2024 | Little Wing | Jaan | |
| That Christmas | Santa Claus | Voice | |
| The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand | Voice | |
| 2025 | The Electric State † | Popfly | Voice |
| TBA | The Parenting † | TBA | Post-production |
| Riff Raff † |
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Television
Television series
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Theatre 625 | Lasar Opie | Episode: "The Year of the Sex Olympics" |
| 1970 | Manhunt | Anton | Episode: "Degrade and Rule" |
| 1978 | The Devil's Crown | Henry II of England | 7 episodes |
| Out | Tony McGrath | 3 episodes | |
| 1980 | Thérèse Raquin | Laurent LeClaire | 3 episodes |
| Hammer House of Horror | Chuck Spillers | Episode: "The Silent Scream" | |
| 1982 | Minder | Frank McFadden | Episode: "In" |
| 1983 | Jemima Shore Investigates | Hamish McFaul | 1 episode |
| 1990 | Perfect Scoundrels | Father Amedy | Episode: "The Milk of Human Kindness" |
| 1992 | Van der Valk | Stefan Szabo | Episode: "The Ties That Bind" |
| The Big Battalions | Edward Hoyland | 5 episodes | |
| 1993 | Inspector Morse | Michael Steppings | Episode: "Deadly Slumber" |
| 1994 | Grushko | Colonel Grushko | 3 episodes |
| 1997 | Red Dwarf | The King | Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper" |
| Superman: The Animated Series | Earl Garver | Voice, episode: "Two's a Crowd" | |
| 2000 | Nuremberg | Hermann Göring | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Frasier | Harry Moon | 2 episodes |
| 2004 | French and Saunders | King Lear | Episode: "Offers" |
| 2005 | Danny Phantom | Pariah Dark | Voice, episode: "Reign Storm" |
| 2006 | Deadwood | Jack Langrishe | 9 episodes |
| 2009 | Kings | King Vesper Abedon | 3 episodes |
| The Take | Ozzy | 4 episodes | |
| The Day of the Triffids | Dennis Masen | Episode: "Part Two" | |
| 2010 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Lewis Serrocold | Episode: "They Do It With Mirrors" |
| Doctor Who | Ood Elder | Voice, episode: "The End of Time" | |
| The Big C | Donald Tolkey | Episode: "Two for the Road" | |
| 2012 | The Straits | Harry Montebello | 10 episodes |
| A Touch of Cloth | Bill Ball | Episode: "The First Case: Part Two" | |
| 2013 | Bob Servant Independent | Bob Servant | 6 episodes |
| Tooned | Performer | Voice, episode: "The Grand Finale" | |
| 2014 | The Game | 'Daddy' | 6 episodes |
| Shetland | Magnus Bain | 2 episodes | |
| Bob Servant | Bob Servant | 3 episodes | |
| After Braveheart | Narrator | Voice, 2 episodes | |
| 2015 | The Slap | Manolis Apostolou | 7 episodes |
| 2016 | Penny Dreadful | Jared Talbot | 2 episodes |
| War & Peace | Mikhail Kutuzov | 4 episodes | |
| Medici: Masters of Florence | Bernardo Guadagni | 8 episodes | |
| 2017 | Urban Myths | Marlon Brando | Episode: "Elizabeth, Michael, and Marlon" |
| 2018–2023 | Succession | Logan Roy | 34 episodes |
| 2019 | Good Omens | Death | Voice, 3 episodes |
| 2021 | The Simpsons | Kostas Becker | Voice, episode: "A Serious Flanders" |
| 2021–2022 | Blade Runner: Black Lotus | Niander Wallace Sr. | Voice, 5 episodes |
| 2022 | Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | God | Episode: "Aridification of the Western U.S." |
| 2023 | 007: Road to a Million | The Controller | Host/Villain |
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force | Anubis | Voice, 1 episode: "Anubis" |
Television films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | King Lear | Duke of Burgundy | |
| 1984 | Pope John Paul II | Father Gora | |
| 1985 | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | |
| 1990 | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | |
| 1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | |
| Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | ||
| 1992 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | |
| 1993 | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | |
| Sharpe's Eagle | |||
| 2000 | Longitude | Lord Morton | |
| 2005 | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | |
| 2008 | The Colour of Magic | Narrator | |
| 2010 | On Expenses | Michael Martin MP | |
| 2011 | The Sinking of the Laconia | Captain Rudolph Sharp | |
| 2013 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman |
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | As You Like It | Orlando | Vaudeville Theatre, London |
| 1969 | In Celebration | Steven Shaw | Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 1970–1971 | Don’t Start Without Me | Norman | Garrick Theatre, London Harrogate Theatre, North Yorkshire |
| 1971–1972 | Getting On | Brian Lowther | Theatre Royal, Brighton |
| 1973 | Cromwell | Proctor | Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 1973 | Hedda Gabler | Eilert Lövborg | Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 1976 | The Émigrés | XX | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1976–1977 | Tamburlaine | Theridamas | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1977 | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1978 | The Putney Debates | Henry Ireton | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1978–1979 | Herod | Herod | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1980 | The Summer Party | Kramer | Crucible Theatre, Sheffield |
| 1981 | Babel | Goatman | Donmar Warehouse, London |
| 1982–1984 | Danton's Death | Georges Danton | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1985 | Strange Interlude | Edmund Darrell | Nederlander Theatre, Broadway |
| 1985 | Rat in the Skull | Nelson | The Public Theatre, Off-Broadway |
| 1986 | The Danton Affair | Danton | Barbican Centre, London |
| 1986 | Misalliance | John Tarleton | Barbican Centre, London |
| 1986–1987 | A Penny for a Song | Sir Timothy Bellboys | Barbican Centre, London |
| 1987–1988 | Fashion | Paul Cash | The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon The Pit, London |
| 1987–1988 | Titus Andronicus | Titus | Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne Barbican Centre, London |
| 1987–1988 | The Taming of the Shrew | Petruchio | Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Theatre Royal, New Castle Barbican Centre, London |
| 1988 | Three Sisters | Lt. Col. Vershinin | Barbican Centre, London |
| 1989 | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | Johnny | Comedy Theatre, London |
| 1990 | King Lear | Lear | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1990 | Richard III | Duke of Buckingham | Royal National Theatre, London |
| 1994 | The Music Man | Prof. Harold Hill | Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, London |
| 1997–1998 | St. Nicholas | The Critic | Bush Theatre, London 45th Street Theatre, Broadway |
| 1998 | Art | Marc | Royale Theatre, Broadway |
| 1999 | St. Nicholas | The Critic | Matrix Theatre, California |
| 2000 | Dublin Carol | John Plunkett | Royal Court Theatre, London |
| 2004 | Uncle Varick | Varick | Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh |
| 2006–2008 | Rock 'n' Roll | Max | Royal Court Theatre, London Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway |
| 2011 | That Championship Season | Coach | Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Broadway |
| 2014 | The Weir | Jack | Donmar Warehouse, London |
| 2019 | The Great Society | Lyndon B. Johnson | Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Broadway |
| 2023 | The Score | Johann Sebastian Bach | Theatre Royal Bath, Bath |
| 2024 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | James Tyrone | Wyndham's Theatre, London |
Video games
| Year | Title | Voice role |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Manhunt | Director Lionel Starkweather |
| 2004 | Killzone | Scolar Visari |
| 2009 | Killzone 2 | Scolar Visari |
| 2011 | Killzone 3 | Scolar Visari |
| 2012 | Syndicate | Jack Denham |
| 2024 | Tekken 8 | Story Narrator Ad |
Audio
| Year | Title | Role | Author | Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | From Now | Hunter Fitz | Rhys Wakefield | |
| 2021 | The Sandman: Act II | Augustus | Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs |
References
- ^ "Brian Cox (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved November 19, 2023. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.
- Bowron, Stephen J (22 August 2011). "Revelation Of The Pyramids DVD Review – New Film Reviews". The Film Pilgrim. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- McCahill, Mike (30 May 2019). "Rory's Way review". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
- Sutcliffe, Thomas (23 October 2011). "Russian drama gets off to a shaky start". The Independent. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- Spangler, Todd (22 July 2021). "'The Sandman: Act II' on Audible Premiere Date Set, James McAvoy Returns to Lead Star-Studded Cast". Variety. Retrieved 24 October 2021.