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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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Succession

2018
as Logan Roy

Zodiac

2007
as Melvin Belli

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

That Christmas

2024
as Santa Claus

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

2016
as Tommy Tilden

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

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

A Shot at Glory

2000
as Martin Smith

Remember Me

2020
as Shane

The Campaign

2012
as Raymond

The Sinking of the Laconia

2011
as Captain Sharp

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

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

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 Anomaly

2014
as Dr. Langham

Iron Will

1994
as Angus McTeague

After Braveheart

2015
as Narrator

Battle for Terra

2007
as General Hemmer (voice)

Churchill

2017
as Winston Churchill

The Flying Scotsman

2006
as Douglas Baxter

Pope John Paul II

1985
as Father Góra

The Carer

2016
as Sir Michael

The Rookie

2002
as Jim Morris Sr.

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

The Key Man

2011
as Irving

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

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

Manhunter

1986
as Hannibal Lecter

Bug

2002
as Cyr

Quasi

2023
as Narrator (voice)

Coriolanus

2011
as Menenius

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)

Nuremberg

2000
as Hermann Göring

On Expenses

2010
as Michael Martin - Speaker of the House of Commons

Lawrence After Arabia

2021
as Epilogue / Father (Voice)

Rob Roy

1995
as Killearn

Games People Play

2004
as Brian Cox

Poodle Springs

1998
as Clayton Blackstone

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

Morgan

2016
as Jim Bryce

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

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

In Celebration

1975
as Steven Shaw

The Reckoning

2003
as Tobias

King Lear

1983
as Burgundy

Kubrick by Candlelight

2017
as The Narrator

Hitler in Colour

2005
as Narrator

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