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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

Mending the Line

2023

Quasi

2023
as Narrator (voice)

Prisoner's Daughter

2023
as Max

There Are No Saints

2022

The Independent

2022
as Nicholas Booker

Separation

2021
as Rivers

Lawrence After Arabia

2021
as Epilogue / Father (Voice)

Remember Me

2020
as Shane

Last Moment Of Clarity

2020
as Gilles

The Bay of Silence

2020
as Milton

The Last Right

2019
as Father Reilly

Pretenders

2019
as Henry

Stargazing: Moon and Beyond

2019
as Brian Cox

Dark Highlands

2018
as Opening Narrator

Widdershins

2018
as voice

Timelapse of the Entire Universe

2018
as Self - Narrator (archive sound)

The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special

2018
as Brian Cox

The Etruscan Smile

2018
as Rory MacNeil

Super Troopers 2

2018
as Captain O'Hagan

Churchill

2017
as Winston Churchill

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines

2017
as Crunch

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation

2017
as Narrator

Kubrick by Candlelight

2017
as The Narrator

Morgan

2016
as Jim Bryce

The Carer

2016
as Sir Michael

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

2016
as Tommy Tilden

Pixels

2015
as Admiral Porter

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace

2015
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)

Forsaken

2015
as James McCurdy

Pacific Warriors

2015
as Narrator

The Anomaly

2014
as Dr. Langham

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live

2014
as Himself

Scotland In A Day

2014

Monty Python Live (Mostly)

2014
as Himself

Her

2013
as Alan Watts (voice)

Blumenthal

2013
as Harold

Believe

2013
as Matt Busby

Mindscape

2013
as Sebastian

Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor

2013
as Brian Cox

RED 2

2013
as Ivan

An Adventure in Space and Time

2013
as Sydney Newman

La Malédiction d'Edgar

2013
as Edgar Hoover

The Campaign

2012
as Raymond

Blood

2012
as Lenny Fairburn

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

2012
as Old Man

A Night with the Stars

2011
as Brian Cox

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

2011
as Glover

Ironclad

2011
as Albany

Exit Humanity

2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011
as John Landon

The Veteran

2011
as Gerry

The Key Man

2011
as Irving

Coriolanus

2011
as Menenius

On Expenses

2010
as Michael Martin - Speaker of the House of Commons

RED

2010
as Ivan Simanov

As Good As Dead

2010
as Reverend Kalahan

Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

2010
as Brian Cox

Fantastic Mr. Fox

2009
as Action 12 Reporter

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword

2009
as Green Dragon (voice)

Tell-Tale

2009
as Van Doren

The Good Heart

2009
as Jacques

Zodiac Deciphered

2008
as himself

Agent Crush

2008
as Spanners (voice)

Shoot on Sight

2008
as Daniel Tennant

The Escapist

2008
as Frank Perry

Red

2008
as Avery Ludlow

Zodiac

2007
as Melvin Belli

Battle for Terra

2007
as General Hemmer (voice)

A Woman in Winter

2007
as Dr. Hunt

Trick 'r Treat

2007
as Mr. Kreeg

The Secret of the Nutcracker

2007
as Drosselmeyer

The Water Horse

2007
as Old Angus

X-Men: Evolution of a Trilogy

2006
as Brian Cox

Running with Scissors

2006
as Dr. Finch

The Flying Scotsman

2006
as Douglas Baxter

Hitler in Colour

2005
as Narrator

The Ringer

2005
as Gary Barker

Blue/Orange

2005
as Dr. Robert Smith

Match Point

2005
as Alec Hewett

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005
as Joseph Bell

Red Eye

2005
as Joe Reisert

Troy

2004
as King Agamemnon

Games People Play

2004
as Brian Cox

The Bourne Supremacy

2004
as Ward Abbott

Japan's War In Colour

2003
as Narrator

Sin

2003
as Captain Oakes

X2

2003
as William Stryker

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2

2003
as Brian Cox

The Reckoning

2003
as Tobias

The Ring

2002
as Richard Morgan

The Rookie

2002
as Jim Morris Sr.

The Bourne Identity

2002
as Ward Abbott

Adaptation.

2002
as Robert McKee

25th Hour

2002
as James Brogan

Bug

2002
as Cyr

Super Troopers

2001
as Captain O'Hagan

Strictly Sinatra

2001
as Chisolm

L.I.E.

2001
as Big John Harrigan

Inside 'Manhunter'

2001
as Himself

The Affair of the Necklace

2001
as Minister Breteuil

Legend of Loch Lomond

2001
as Narrator

Mad About Mambo

2000
as Sidney McLoughlin

Saltwater

2000
as George Beneventi

Complicity

2000
as Inspector McDunn

A Shot at Glory

2000
as Martin Smith

The Invention of Dr. Morel

2000
as Dr. Morel

For Love of the Game

1999
as Gary Wheeler

The Corruptor

1999
as Sean Wallace

The Minus Man

1999
as Doug

Desperate Measures

1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

Rushmore

1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

Poodle Springs

1998
as Clayton Blackstone

Merchants of Venus

1998
as Uncle Vladimir

The Boxer

1997
as Joe Hamill

Food for Ravens

1997
as Nye Bevan

Albert Camus: The Madness of Sincerity

1997
as Narrator

Kiss the Girls

1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.

The Glimmer Man

1996
as Mr. Smith

Chain Reaction

1996
as Lyman Earl Collier

The Long Kiss Goodnight

1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman

Braveheart

1995
as Argyle Wallace

Rob Roy

1995
as Killearn

Royal Deceit

1994
as Aethelwine

Iron Will

1994
as Angus McTeague

Grushko

1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko

Sharpe's Rifles

1993
as Major Michael Hogan

L'oeil de Vichy

1993
as Narrator (English version)

Sharpe's Eagle

1993
as Major Michael Hogan

The Lost Language of Cranes

1992
as Owen Benjamin

Six Characters in Search of An Author

1992
as The Director

Hidden Agenda

1990
as Peter Kerrigan

Secret Weapon

1990
as Andrew Neil

Murder on the Moon

1989
as Voronov

Regi Andrej Tarkovskij

1988
as Voiceover Narrator

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun

1988
as Jock Purves

Rat in the Skull

1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson

Manhunter

1986
as Hannibal Lecter

Florence Nightingale

1985
as Dr. McGregor

Pope John Paul II

1985
as Father Góra

The Cantor of St Thomas's

1985
as Johann Sebastian Bach

King Lear

1983
as Burgundy

The Silent Scream

1980
as Chuck

In Celebration

1975
as Steven Shaw

Nicholas and Alexandra

1971
as Trotsky

The Electric State

Director

Movie The Dead One 2007
Movie Keepin' It Real 2003
Movie Rambler '65 1997
Movie Scorpion Spring 1996
Movie The Obit Writer 1993

Writer

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

Host

Movie The Big Bang Machine 2008

Producer

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