List of Brian Cox performances

Cox at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

Scottish actor Brian Cox has appeared in various films and TV 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) and Succession (2018–present).

Films[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Nicholas and Alexandra	Leon Trotsky
1975	In Celebration	Steven Shaw
1986	Manhunter	Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (sic)
1990	Hidden Agenda	Peter Kerrigan
1993	The Eye of Vichy	Narrator	Documentary
1994	Iron Will	Angus McTeague
1994	Prince of Jutland	Æthelwine of Lindsey
1995	Rob Roy	Killearn
1995	Braveheart	Argyle Wallace
1996	Chain Reaction	Lyman Earl Collier
1996	The Glimmer Man	Mr. Smith
1996	The Long Kiss Goodnight	Dr. Nathan Waldman
1997	Kiss the Girls	Chief Hatfield
1997	The Boxer	Joe Hamill
1998	Desperate Measures	Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1998	Rushmore	Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1999	The Minus Man	Doug Durwin
1999	The Corruptor	Sean Wallace
1999	For Love of the Game	Gary Wheeler
2000	Complicity	Inspector McDunn
2000	Mad About Mambo	Sidney McLoughlin
2000	A Shot at Glory	Martin Smith
2000	Saltwater	George Beneventi
2001	Super Troopers	Captain John O'Hagen
2001	L.I.E.	Big John Harrigan
2001	Strictly Sinatra	Chisolm
2001	The Affair of the Necklace	Minister Baron de Breteuil
2002	Bug	Cyr
2002	The Rookie	Jim Morris Sr.
2002	The Bourne Identity	Ward Abbott
2002	The Ring	Richard Morgan
2002	Adaptation.	Robert McKee
2002	25th Hour	James Brogan
2002	The Trials of Henry Kissinger	Narrator	Documentary
2003	X2	William Stryker
2003	The Reckoning	Tobias
2003	Sin	Captain Oakes
2004	Troy	Agamemnon
2004	The Bourne Supremacy	Ward Abbott
2004	Get the Picture	Harry Sondheim	Short film
2005	Match Point	Alec Hewett
2005	Red Eye	Joe Reisert
2005	The Ringer	Gary Barker
2006	A Woman in Winter	Dr. Hunt
2006	The Flying Scotsman	Douglas Baxter
2006	Running with Scissors	Dr. Finch
2007	Zodiac	Melvin Belli
2007	Battle for Terra	General Hemmer	Voice
2007	The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep	Old Angus
2007	Trick 'r Treat	Mr. Kreeg
2007	Shoot on Sight	Daniel Tennant
2008	Red	Avery Ludlow
2008	The Escapist	Frank Perry
2008	Agent Crush	Spanners	Voice
2009	Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword	Green Dragon	Voice; Direct-to-DVD
2009	Tell-Tale	Detective Van Doren
2009	Fantastic Mr. Fox	Dan Peabody	Voice
2009	The Good Heart	Jacques
2010	Wide Blue Yonder	Wally	AKA All at Sea
2010	Red	Ivan Simanov
2010	As Good as Dead	Reverend Kalahan
2011	Coriolanus	Menenius Agrippa
2011	Ironclad	William d'Aubigny
2011	The Veteran	Gerry
2011	Rise of the Planet of the Apes	John Landon
2011	Citizen Gangster	Glover Boyd
2011	Exit Humanity	Malcolm Young	Voice
2011	The Revelation of the Pyramids	Narrator	Documentary^[1]
2012	The Campaign	Raymond Huggins
2012	My City	The Journalist	Short film
2012	Blood	Lanny Fairburn
2013	Red 2	Ivan Simanov
2013	Blumenthal	Harold
2013	Mindscape	Sebastian
2013	Her	Alan Watts	Voice
2013	Believe	Sir Matt Busby
2014	The Anomaly	Dr. Langham
2015	Pixels	Admiral Porter
2015	Forsaken	James McCurdy
2015	Killing Thyme	Norman	Short film
2016	Morgan	Jim Bryce
2016	The Carer	Sir Michael Gifford
2016	The Autopsy of Jane Doe	Tommy Tilden
2017	Bob the Builder: Mega Machines	Conrad / Crunch	Voices
2017	Churchill	Winston Churchill
2017	Kubrick By Candlelight	Narrator	Short film
2018	Super Troopers 2	Captain John O'Hagan
2018	The Etruscan Smile	Rory MacNeil
2018	The Pretenders	Henry
2019	Remember Me	Shane
2019	Strange but True	Bill Erwin
2019	The Last Right	Father Reilly
2020	Rebus: The Lockdown Blues	John Rebus	Short film
2020	Last Moment of Clarity	Gilles
2020	The Bay of Silence	Milton
2021	Separation	Paul Rivers
2022	The Independent		Filming

Television[]

Series[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	Theatre 625	Lasar Opie	Episode: "The Year of the Sex Olympics"
1978	The Devil's Crown	Henry II of England	7 episodes
1978	Out	Tony McGrath	3 episodes
1980	Thérèse Raquin	Laurent LeClaire	3 episodes
1980	Hammer House of Horror	Chuck Spillers	Episode: "The Silent Scream"
1982	Minder	Frank McFadden	Episode: "In"
1983	Jemima Shore Investigates	Hamish McFaul	1 episode
1992	The Big Battalions	Edward Hoyland	5 episodes
1993	Inspector Morse	Michael Steppings	Episode: "Deadly Slumber"
1994	Grushko	Colonel Grushko	3 episodes^[2]
1997	Red Dwarf	The King	Episode: "Stoke Me a Clipper"
1997	Superman: The Animated Series	Earl Garver (voice)	Episode: "Two's a Crowd"
2000	Nuremberg	Hermann Göring	2 episodes
2001	Frasier	Harry Moon	2 episodes
2005	Danny Phantom	Pariah Dark (voice)	Episode: "Reign Storm"
2006	Deadwood	Jack Langrishe	9 episodes
2009	Kings	King Vesper Abedon	3 episodes
2009	The Take	Ozzy	4 episodes
2009	The Day of the Triffids	Dennis Masen	Episode: "Part Two"
2010	Agatha Christie's Marple	Lewis Serrocold	Episode: "They Do It With Mirrors"
2010	Doctor Who	Ood Elder (voice)	Episode: "The End of Time"
2010	The Big C	Donald Tolkey	Episode: "Two for the Road"
2012	The Straits	Harry Montebello	10 episodes
2012	A Touch of Cloth	Bill Ball	Episode: "The First Case: Part Two"
2013	Bob Servant Independent	Bob Servant	6 episodes
2013	Tooned	Performer (voice)	Episode: "The Grand Finale"
2014	The Game	'Daddy'	6 episodes
2014	Shetland	Magnus Bain	2 episodes
2014	Bob Servant	Bob Servant	3 episodes
2014	After Braveheart	Narrator	2 episodes
2015	The Slap	Manolis Apostolou	7 episodes
2016	Penny Dreadful	Jared Talbot	2 episodes
2016	War & Peace	Mikhail Kutuzov	4 episodes
2016	Medici: Masters of Florence	Bernardo Guadagni	8 episodes
2017	Urban Myths	Marlon Brando	Episode: "Elizabeth, Michael, and Marlon"
2018–present	Succession	Logan Roy	29 episodes
2019	Good Omens	Death (voice)	3 episodes
2021	The Simpsons	Kostas Becker (voice)	Episode: "A Serious Flanders"
2021	Blade Runner: Black Lotus	Niander Wallace Sr (voice)

TV films[]

Year	Title	Role
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
1991	Red Fox	Geoffrey Harrison
1992	The Cloning of Joanna May	Carl May
1993	Sharpe: Sharpe's Rifles	Major Michael Hogan
2000	Longitude	Lord Morton
2005	Blue/Orange	Dr. Robert Smith
2008	The Colour of Magic	Narrator (voice)
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	St. Nicholas	The Critic	Bush Theatre, London
1998	St. Nicholas	The Critic	45th Street Theatre, Broadway
1998	Art	Marc	Royale Theatre, Broadway
1999	St. Nicholas	The Critic	Matrix Theatre, California
2000	Dublin Carol	John Plunkett	The Old Vic, 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

Video games[]

Year	Title	Voice role
2003	Manhunt	Director Lionel Starkweather
2004	Killzone	Scolar Visari
2009	Killzone 2
2011	Killzone 3
2012	Syndicate	Jack Denham

Audio[]

Year	Title	Role	Author	Notes
2020	From Now	Hunter Fitz	Rhys Wakefield
2021	The Sandman: Act II	Augustus	Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs	^[3]

References[]

^ Bowron, Stephen J (22 August 2011). "Revelation Of The Pyramids DVD Review - New Film Reviews". The Film Pilgrim. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
^ 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.

External links[]

Brian Cox at IMDb

[1] Bowron, Stephen J (22 August 2011). "Revelation Of The Pyramids DVD Review - New Film Reviews". The Film Pilgrim. Retrieved 31 January 2012.

[2] Sutcliffe, Thomas (23 October 2011). "Russian drama gets off to a shaky start". The Independent. Retrieved 13 August 2015.

[3] 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.

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