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Brian Cox

Brian Denis Cox CBE is a Scottish actor who works in film, television and theatre. He has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. He currently stars as media magnate Logan Roy on HBO's Succession. Cox is also known for appearing in Super Troopers, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, X2, Braveheart, Rushmore, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Troy.

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Filmography

Succession

2018
as Logan Roy

Zodiac

2007
as Melvin Belli

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011
as John Landon

Troy

2004
as King Agamemnon

Pixels

2015
as Admiral Porter

Her

2013
as Alan Watts (voice)

X2

2003
as William Stryker

The Bourne Identity

2002
as Ward Abbott

The Bourne Supremacy

2004
as Ward Abbott

Good Omens

2019
as Death

Red Eye

2005
as Joe Reisert

RED

2010
as Ivan Simanov

I Medici

2016
as Bernardo Guadagni

The Ring

2002
as Richard Morgan

Braveheart

1995
as Argyle Wallace

The Water Horse

2007
as Old Angus

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

2016
as Tommy Tilden

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)

War & Peace (2016)

2016
as Mikhail Kutuzov

RED 2

2013
as Ivan

Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009
as Action 12 Reporter

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

2021
as Niander Wallace Sr.

Deadwood

2004
as Jack Langrishe

Kiss the Girls

1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.

Adaptation.

2002
as Robert McKee

Match Point

2005
as Alec Hewett

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

2009
as Green Dragon (voice)

Rushmore

1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

25th Hour

2002
as James Brogan

The Slap (US)

2015
as Manolis

Trick 'r Treat

2007
as Mr. Kreeg

Dark Highlands

2018
as Opening Narrator

Tell-Tale

2009
as Van Doren

For Love of the Game

1999
as Gary Wheeler

Sharpe

1993
as Major Hogan

Ironclad

2011
as Albany

Sharpe's Rifles

1993
as Major Michael Hogan

Exit Humanity

2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)

Strictly Sinatra

2001
as Chisolm

Stargazing: Moon and Beyond

2019
as Brian Cox

Blue/Orange

2005
as Dr. Robert Smith

The Etruscan Smile

2018
as Rory MacNeil

Complicity

2000
as Inspector McDunn

The Corruptor

1999
as Sean Wallace

Unsinkable (2024)

2024
as Robert Dodds

La Malédiction d'Edgar

2013
as Edgar Hoover

Six Characters in Search of An Author

1992
as The Director

A Shot at Glory

2000
as Martin Smith

Made of Money with Brian Cox

2023
as Self

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

2014
as Himself

Remember Me

2020
as Shane

The Campaign

2012
as Raymond

The Sinking of the Laconia

2011
as Captain Sharp

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

2012
as Old Man

007: Road to a Million

2023
as The Controller

Zodiac Deciphered

2008
as himself

Out

1978
as McGrath

L.I.E.

2001
as Big John Harrigan

A Touch of Cloth

2012
as Ball

The Good Heart

2009
as Jacques

The Escapist

2008
as Frank Perry

Super Troopers

2001
as Captain O'Hagan

As Good As Dead

2010
as Reverend Kalahan

The Affair of the Necklace

2001
as Minister Breteuil

The Electric State

2025

Mad About Mambo

2000
as Sidney McLoughlin

Food for Ravens

1997
as Nye Bevan

The Glimmer Man

1996
as Mr. Smith

Shoot on Sight

2008
as Daniel Tennant

The Invention of Dr. Morel

2000
as Dr. Morel

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

2014
as Himself

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971
as Trotsky

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines

2017
as Crunch

Japan's War In Colour

2003
as Narrator

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013
as Brian Cox

The Anomaly

2014
as Dr. Langham

Iron Will

1994
as Angus McTeague

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

2017
as Narrator

After Braveheart

2015
as Narrator

The Secret of the Nutcracker

2007
as Drosselmeyer

Battle for Terra

2007
as General Hemmer (voice)

Churchill

2017
as Winston Churchill

The Flying Scotsman

2006
as Douglas Baxter

Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity

1997
as Narrator

Pope John Paul II

1985
as Father Góra

The Carer

2016
as Sir Michael

The Rookie

2002
as Jim Morris Sr.

Addicted to Pleasure

2012

X-Men: Evolution of a Trilogy

2006
as Brian Cox

Believe

2013
as Matt Busby

The Ringer

2005
as Gary Barker

Red

2008
as Avery Ludlow

The Cantor of St Thomas's

1985
as Johann Sebastian Bach

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

2015
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)

The Key Man

2011
as Irving

The Game (2014)

2014
as Daddy

Florence Nightingale

1985
as Dr. McGregor

Blood

2012
as Lenny Fairburn

L'oeil de Vichy

1993
as Narrator (English version)

Grushko

1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

Pacific Warriors

2015
as Narrator

The Last Right

2019
as Father Reilly

Last Moment Of Clarity

2020
as Gilles

The Long Kiss Goodnight

1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman

Merchants of Venus

1998
as Uncle Vladimir

Separation

2021
as Rivers

Hidden Agenda

1990
as Peter Kerrigan

Bob Servant Independent

2013
as Bob Servant

A Night with the Stars

2011
as Brian Cox

Manhunter

1986
as Hannibal Lecter

There Are No Saints

2022

Bug

2002
as Cyr

Quasi

2023
as Narrator (voice)

The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special

2018
as Brian Cox

Coriolanus

2011
as Menenius

Murder on the Moon

1989
as Voronov

Royal Deceit

1994
as Aethelwine

Rat in the Skull

1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson

Sin

2003
as Captain Oakes

Mindscape

2013
as Sebastian

Chain Reaction

1996
as Lyman Earl Collier

The Take

2009
as Ozzy

Timelapse of the Entire Universe

2018
as Self - Narrator (archive sound)

Agent Crush

2008
as Spanners (voice)

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005
as Joseph Bell

Nuremberg

2000
as Hermann Göring

The Silent Scream

1980
as Chuck

On Expenses

2010
as Michael Martin - Speaker of the House of Commons

The Day of the Triffids (2009)

2009
as Dennis Mason

Lawrence After Arabia

2021
as Epilogue / Father (Voice)

The Game (2014)

2014
as Daddy

The Lost Language of Cranes

1992
as Owen Benjamin

Rob Roy

1995
as Killearn

Games People Play

2004
as Brian Cox

The Minus Man

1999
as Doug

Prisoner's Daughter

2023
as Max

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2

2003
as Brian Cox

Poodle Springs

1998
as Clayton Blackstone

Legend of Loch Lomond

2001
as Narrator

Forsaken

2015
as James McCurdy

Sharpe's Eagle

1993
as Major Michael Hogan

The Veteran

2011
as Gerry

Super Troopers 2

2018
as Captain O'Hagan

Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

2010
as Brian Cox

Morgan

2016
as Jim Bryce

Running with Scissors

2006
as Dr. Finch

The Bay of Silence

2020
as Milton

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

2011
as Glover

From Now

2020
as Hunter Fitz

Blumenthal

2013
as Harold

Regi Andrej Tarkovskij

1988
as Voiceover Narrator

Widdershins

2018
as voice

The Independent

2022
as Nicholas Booker

The Straits

2012
as Harry Montebello

Secret Weapon

1990
as Andrew Neil

Saltwater

2000
as George Beneventi

Scotland In A Day

2014

A Woman in Winter

2007
as Dr. Hunt

The Boxer

1997
as Joe Hamill

Pretenders

2019
as Henry

Desperate Measures

1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

Mending the Line

2023

An Adventure in Space and Time

2013
as Sydney Newman

In Celebration

1975
as Steven Shaw

The Reckoning

2003
as Tobias

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

1988
as Jock Purves

King Lear

1983
as Burgundy

Kubrick by Candlelight

2017
as The Narrator

Hitler in Colour

2005
as Narrator

Inside 'Manhunter'

2001
as Himself

Director

Movie Rambler '65 1997
Movie The Obit Writer 1993
Episode Oz
Gray Matter 		2000
Movie The Dead One 2007
Movie Scorpion Spring 1996
Movie Keepin' It Real 2003

Writer

Movie Tao of The Golden Mask 2007
Movie Rambler '65 1997
Movie The Obit Writer 1993
Movie A Night with the Stars 2011
Movie Shepherds and Butchers 2017
Movie Kite 2014
Movie The Dead One 2007
Movie Scorpion Spring 1996
Movie Keepin' It Real 2003

Host

Series Brian Cox's Russia 2017
Movie The Big Bang Machine 2008
Series Beyond Explanation 2017

Producer

Movie Tao of The Golden Mask 2007
Movie Pulse 2: Afterlife 2008
Movie El Khoroug 2010
Movie Chain of Desire 1992
Movie Red 2008
Movie Shepherds and Butchers 2017
Movie Pulse 3 2008
Movie Pulse 2006
Movie Kite 2014
Movie Through Black Spruce 2018

Guest Star

Episode The ONE Show
Brian Cox, Noel Fielding 		2016
Episode Addicted to Pleasure
Sugar 		2012
Episode Addicted to Pleasure
Opium 		2012
Episode Doctor Who (2005)
The End of Time (1) 		2009
Episode Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Charlize Theron, Brian Cox, Todd Glass 		2020
Episode Addicted to Pleasure
Tobacco 		2012
Episode Addicted to Pleasure
Alcohol 		2012
Episode Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Is the Government Getting to Grips with Migration? 		2023
Episode The Day of the Triffids (2009)
Cast Interview - Brian Cox 		2010
Episode Top Gear
Episode 6 		2006
Episode Frasier
The Guilt Trippers 		2002
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Cast of “Succession” 		2021
Episode Great Writers
Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity 		1999
Episode Play from 'A'
Initiative Test 		1976
Episode Frasier
Moons Over Seattle 		2002
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
Joan Collins, Brian Cox, Alex Scott, Rob Beckett, Duran Duran 		2021
Episode Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Will Keir Starmer Reform the NHS? 		2023
Episode My Shakespeare
Morgan Freeman on The Taming Of The Shrew 		2014
Episode Superman: The Animated Series
Two's a Crowd 		1997
Episode The Wine Programme
A Wine Primer 		1970
Episode Penny Dreadful
This World Is Our Hell 		2016
Episode Agatha Christie's Marple
They Do It with Mirrors 		2009
Episode BAFTA: A Life in Pictures
Brian Cox 		1970
Episode Brian Cox's Russia
Moscow 		2017
Episode Brian Cox's Russia
St. Petersburg 		2017
Episode The ONE Show
Brian Cox, Carol Vorderman, Iwan Thomas 		2016
Episode The Jonathan Ross Show
Episode 5 		2023
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Brian Cox, Tim Minchin, Sara Bareilles 		2020
Episode Carpool
Brian Cox 		2009
Episode Red Dwarf
Stoke Me a Clipper 		1997
Episode CBeebies Bedtime Stories
The Doctor - The Way Back Home 		2014
Episode The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Brian Cox, Maren Morris, Maren Morris ft. Mickey Guyton & Brittney Spencer 		2023
Episode IMAX Ultimate Collection
Legend Of Loch Lomond 		2002
Episode Penny Dreadful
No Beast So Fierce 		2016
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Brian Cox, Samantha Bee 		2022
Episode Happy Birthday BBC Two
All About Two 		2014
Episode Lost
The Journey 		2005
Episode Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter
TV Drama Actor 		2022
Episode The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Brian Cox, Keri Russell 		2023
Episode Hammer House of Horror
The Silent Scream 		1980
Episode The Daily Show
Molly Burke & Brian Cox 		2022
Episode Deadwood
Tell Him Something Pretty 		2006
Episode Wonders of Life
Learning Zone Part 2 		2013
Episode The Simpsons
A Serious Flanders (1) 		2021
Episode Deadwood
A Constant Throb 		2006
Episode Target
Carve Up 		1977
Episode Theatre 625
The Year of the Sex Olympics 		1968
Episode The Simpsons
A Serious Flanders (2) 		2021
Episode Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
June 26, 2022: Water 		2022
Episode Watching Ourselves: 60 Years of TV in Scotland
Mean Streets 		2012
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Brian Cox & Emily Blunt 		2023