Brian Cox
Brian Cox
Biography
Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Actor
as The Voice
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
as Sandy
as Himself - Panellist
as Self - Interviewed Guest
as Popfly (voice)
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
as Santa (voice)
as Grandpa
as Jaan Vari
as Robert Dodds
as Narrator (voice)
as Max
as Ike Fletcher
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself
as The Controller
as Self
as Self (archive footage)
as Self
as Nick Booker
as Self
as Presenter
as Self – Actor
as Self
as Rivers
as Narrator (voice)
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
as Milton
as John Rebus
as Gilles
as Father (Voice)
as Father Reilly
as Bill
as Henry
as Shane
as Death (voice)
as The Narrator
as voice
as John O'Hagen
as Rory MacNeil
as Logan Roy
as Himself
as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
as Winston Churchill
as Self
as Self
as Host
as Tommy Tilden
as Jim Bryce
as Sir Michael
as Bernardo Guadagni
as Mikhail Kutuzov
as James McCurdy
as Narrator
as Admiral Porter
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
as Manolis
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
as Dr. Langham
as Self
as Daddy
as Rev. Andrew Clark
as Jared Talbot
as Self
as Alan Watts (voice)
as Sydney Newman
as Edgar Hoover
as Sebastian
as Matt Busby
as Harold Blumenthal
as Ivan
as Magnus Bain
as Self
as Bob Servant
as Lenny Fairburn
as Raymond
as Wally
as Old Man
as Self - Host
as Bill Ball
as The Mechanic
as Harry Montebello
as Malcolm Young (voice)
as Glover
as John Landon
as Gerry
as Albany
as Irving
as Menenius
as Self - Participant
as Self
as Captain Sharp
as Ivan Simanov
as Reverend Kalahan
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
as Self
as Jacques
as Van Doren
as Green Dragon (voice)
as Dennis Masen
as Ozzy
as Daniel Tennant
as Avery Ludlow
as Frank Perry
as Spanners (voice)
as Narrator
as Old Angus
as Drosselmeyer
as Mr. Kreeg
as General Hemmer (voice)
as Dr. Hunt
as Melvin Belli
as Self
as Dr. Finch
as Gabriel
as Douglas Baxter
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Gary Barker
as Alec Hewett
as Joseph Bell
as Joe Reisert
as Narrator
as Dr. Robert Smith
as Narrator
as Sydney Newman
as Other Voices (voice)
as Ward Abbott
as King Agamemnon
as Self
as Tobias
as Self
as Jack Langrishe
as William Stryker
as Captain Oakes
as Self
as James Brogan
as Robert McKee
as Richard Morgan
as Michael O'Mara
as Ward Abbott
as Jim Morris Sr.
as Cyr
as Narrator
as Narrator
as Self
as Minister Breteuil
as Big John Harrigan
as Chisolm
as John O'Hagen
as Himself
as Self
as George Beneventi
as Inspector McDunn
as Martin Smith
as Sidney McLoughlin
as Dr. Morel
as Self
as Lord Morton
as Anubis (voice)
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
as Lord Morton
as Gary Wheeler
as Sean Wallace
as Doug
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
as Clayton Blackstone
as Uncle Vladimir
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
as Joe Hamill
as Aneurin Bevan
as Hogan
as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
as Mr. Smith
as Lyman Earl Collier
as Judge Freisler
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
as Self
as Argyle Wallace
as Killearn
as Narrator (voice)
as Charlie King
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
as Aethelwine
as Angus McTeague
as Major Michael Hogan
as Major Michael Hogan
as Harry Moon
as Major Hogan
as The Director
as Owen Benjamin
as Carl May
as Carlton Heard
as Edward Hoyland
as Macbeth (voice)
as Geoffrey Harrison
as The Director
as Peter Kerrigan
as self
as Andrew Neil
as Father Amedy
as Self
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
as Voronov
as Kostas Becker (voice)
as Voiceover Narrator
as Jack Purves
as Self - Guest
as The King
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
as Dunny
as Detective Inspector Nelson
as Narrator
as King Lear
as Michael Steppings
as Vic
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
as Vic
as Dr. McGregor
as Johann Sebastian Bach
as Father Góra
as Burgundy
as Dr. Gillespie
as Young Laird
as Dalhousie
as Chuck
as Laurent
as Frank
as Self - Panellist
as McGrath
as Henry II of England
as George Simpson
as Steven Shaw
as Alsemero
as Stefan Szabo
as Trotsky
as Self
as Dr. Gillespie
as Anton
as Lasar Opie
as Nelson
as Alsemero
Producer
as Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Associate Producer
Director
as Director
as Director