Brian Cox

Brian Cox

Filmography

As Cast

Glenrothan (2026)
as Sandy
Super Troopers 3 (2026)
as Captain O’Hagan
The Sunrise File (2026)
as Oded Ailam (voice)
The Parenting (2025)
as Frank
The Electric State (2025)
as Popfly (voice)
The Marbles (2025)
as Self - Interviewee
AMR: Dying to Change the World (2025)
as AMR
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction (2025)
as Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
VE Day 80 (2025)
as Self
Dexter: Resurrection (2025)
as The New York Ripper
Little Wing (2024)
as Jaan Vari
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
That Christmas (2024)
as Santa (voice)
Skelly (2024)
as Grandpa
Unsinkable (2024)
as Robert Dodds
An Interview with Brian Cox (2023)
as Himself
Quasi (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend (2023)
as Narrator (voice)
Mending the Line (2023)
as Ike Fletcher
Prisoner's Daughter (2023)
as Max
007: Road to a Million (2023)
as The Controller
Made of Money with Brian Cox (2023)
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius (2023)
as Self
The Independent (2022)
as Nick Booker
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022)
as Self
Ukraine: Answering the Call (2022)
as Self
Bonnie (2022)
as Self
Ooh the Banter! (2022)
as Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live (2022)
as Presenter
Piers Morgan Uncensored (2022)
as Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022)
as Self – Actor
Remembers… (2022)
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (2022)
as Self - Actor
Separation (2021)
as Rivers
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story (2021)
as Narrator (voice)
Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2021)
as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
Amol Rajan Interviews (2021)
as Self - Interviewed Guest
Last Moment of Clarity (2020)
as Gilles
The Bay of Silence (2020)
as Milton
Lawrence After Arabia (2020)
as Father (Voice)
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues (2020)
as John Rebus
Pretenders (2019)
as Henry
Strange but True (2019)
as Bill
Remember Me (2019)
as Shane
The Last Right (2019)
as Father Reilly
Good Omens (2019)
as Death (voice)
Super Troopers 2 (2018)
as Captain O'Hagan
The Etruscan Smile (2018)
as Rory MacNeil
Kubrick by Candlelight (2018)
as The Narrator
Widdershins (2018)
as voice
Succession (2018)
as Logan Roy
Churchill (2017)
as Winston Churchill
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation (2017)
as Narrator
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines (2017)
as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
An Evening with Brian Cox (2017)
as Himself
Carpool Karaoke: The Series (2017)
as Self
Brian Cox's Russia (2017)
as Host
The Russell Howard Hour (2017)
as Self
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC (2016)
as Self
The Carer (2016)
as Sir Michael
Morgan (2016)
as Jim Bryce
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
as Tommy Tilden
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light (2016)
as Self
War and Peace (2016)
as Mikhail Kutuzov
Medici: Masters of Florence (2016)
as Bernardo Guadagni
Pixels (2015)
as Admiral Porter
Forsaken (2015)
as James McCurdy
Pacific Warriors (2015)
as Narrator
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace (2015)
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
Killing Thyme (2015)
as Norman
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
as Self - Guest
The Slap (2015)
as Manolis
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015)
as Self
The Anomaly (2014)
as Dr. Langham
The Gospel of John (2014)
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
Scotland In A Day (2014)
The Game (2014)
as Daddy
Penny Dreadful (2014)
as Jared Talbot
Late Night with Seth Meyers (2014)
as Self
The Great War: The People's Story (2014)
as Rev. Andrew Clark
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014)
as Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (2014)
as Self
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (2014)
as God
Her (2013)
as Alan Watts (voice)
An Adventure in Space and Time (2013)
as Sydney Newman
The Curse of Edgar (2013)
as Edgar Hoover
Anna (2013)
as Sebastian
Believe (2013)
as Matt Busby
Blumenthal (2013)
as Harold Blumenthal
RED 2 (2013)
as Ivan
Shetland (2013)
as Magnus Bain
Bob Servant (2013)
as Bob Servant
The Last Leg (2013)
as Self
The Campaign (2012)
as Raymond
Blood (2012)
as Lenny Fairburn
I Missed My Mother's Funeral (2012)
as Old Man
All at Sea (2012)
as Wally
The Straits (2012)
as Harry Montebello
A Touch of Cloth (2012)
as Bill Ball
Tooned (2012)
as The Mechanic
Addicted to Pleasure (2012)
as Self - Host
Ironclad (2011)
as Albany
The Veteran (2011)
as Gerry
Coriolanus (2011)
as Menenius
The Key Man (2011)
as Irving
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
as John Landon
Exit Humanity (2011)
as Malcolm Young (voice)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011)
as Glover
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
as Self
The Sinking of the Laconia (2011)
as Captain Sharp
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip (2011)
as Self - Participant
The Jonathan Ross Show (2011)
as Self - Guest
RED (2010)
as Ivan Simanov
On Expenses (2010)
as Michael Martin
As Good As Dead (2010)
as Reverand Kalahan
The Color of Magic 2in1 (2010)
as Vypravěč
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Good Heart (2009)
as Jacques
Tell-Tale (2009)
as Van Doren
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009)
as Green Dragon (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey (2009)
as Self
The Take (2009)
as Ozzy
The Day of the Triffids (2009)
as Dennis Masen
Kings (2009)
as King Vesper Abaddon
Red (2008)
as Avery Ludlow
The Escapist (2008)
as Frank Perry
Agent Crush (2008)
as Spanners (voice)
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1 (2008)
as Narrator
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2 (2008)
as Narrator
The Colour of Magic (2008)
as Narrator
Zodiac (2007)
as Melvin Belli
Trick 'r Treat (2007)
as Mr. Kreeg
Battle for Terra (2007)
as General Hemmer (voice)
The Secret of the Nutcracker (2007)
as Drosselmeyer
The Water Horse (2007)
as Old Angus
A Woman in Winter (2007)
as Dr. Hunt
Shoot on Sight (2007)
as Daniel Tennant
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
as Self
M.I. High (2007)
as Voice of the Mastermind
Running with Scissors (2006)
as Dr. Finch
The Flying Scotsman (2006)
as Douglas Baxter
The Outsiders (2006)
as Gabriel
Carry On Ken (2006)
as Self
The One Show (2006)
as Self - Guest
Red Eye (2005)
as Joe Reisert
The Ringer (2005)
as Gary Barker
Japan's War in Colour (2005)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Hitler in Colour (2005)
as Narrator
Match Point (2005)
as Alec Hewett
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle (2005)
as Joseph Bell
Blue/Orange (2005)
as Dr. Robert Smith
The Colbert Report (2005)
Troy (2004)
as Agamemnon
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
as Ward Abbott
The Reckoning (2004)
as Tobias
Murder by Numbers (2004)
as Self
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
as Other Voices (voice)
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? (2004)
as Self
Deadwood (2004)
as Jack Langrishe
The Tony Danza Show (2004)
as Self
Agatha Christie's Marple (2004)
as Lewis Serrocold
X2 (2003)
as William Stryker
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker (2003)
as Self
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2 (2003)
as Self
Sin (2003)
as Captain Oakes
One Life (2003)
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
as Self - Guest
The Ring (2002)
as Richard Morgan
25th Hour (2002)
as James Brogan
The Bourne Identity (2002)
as Ward Abbott
Adaptation. (2002)
as Robert McKee
Bug (2002)
as Cyr
The Rookie (2002)
as Jim Morris Sr.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
as Self
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon (2002)
as Narrator
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh (2002)
as Narrator
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World (2002)
as Narrator
The Biographer (2002)
as Michael O'Mara
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch (2002)
as Narrator
Top Gear (2002)
as Self
Masters of Darkness (2002)
as Narrator
Super Troopers (2001)
as Captain O'Hagen
L.I.E. (2001)
as Big John Harrigan
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
as Minister Breteuil
Strictly Sinatra (2001)
as Chisolm
Inside 'Manhunter' (2001)
as Himself
Richard & Judy (2001)
as Self
Complicity (2000)
as Inspector McDunn
Mad About Mambo (2000)
as Sidney McLoughlin
Longitude (2000)
as Lord Morton
Saltwater (2000)
as George Beneventi
A Shot at Glory (2000)
as Martin Smith
The Invention of Dr. Morel (2000)
as Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore' (2000)
as Self
Nuremberg (2000)
as Herman Wilhelm Goering
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000)
as Anubis (voice)
Longitude (2000)
as Lord Morton
The Minus Man (1999)
as Doug
The Corruptor (1999)
as Sean Wallace
For Love of the Game (1999)
as Gary Wheeler
The History of the British Police Force (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Poodle Springs (1998)
as Clayton Blackstone
Rushmore (1998)
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Desperate Measures (1998)
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Merchants of Venus (1998)
as Uncle Vladimir
Battle of the Clans (1998)
as Narrator
Kiss the Girls (1997)
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
The Boxer (1997)
as Joe Hamill
Sharpe: The Legend (1997)
as Hogan
Food for Ravens (1997)
as Aneurin Bevan
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (1997)
as Narrator
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
Chain Reaction (1996)
as Lyman Earl Collier
The Glimmer Man (1996)
as Mr. Smith
Witness Against Hitler (1996)
as Judge Freisler
Superman: The Animated Series (1996)
as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
The Daily Show (1996)
as Self
Braveheart (1995)
as Argyle Wallace
Rob Roy (1995)
as Killearn
Iron Will (1994)
as Angus McTeague
The Maltese Double Cross (1994)
as Narrator (voice)
Prince of Jutland (1994)
as Aethelwine
Grushko (1994)
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
The Negotiator (1994)
as Charlie King
Sharpe's Eagle (1993)
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe's Rifles (1993)
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe (1993)
as Major Hogan
Frasier (1993)
as Harry Moon
The Lost Language of Cranes (1992)
as Owen Benjamin
The Cutter (1992)
Six Characters in Search of An Author (1992)
as The Director
Deceptions (1992)
as Carlton Heard
The Big Battalions (1992)
as Edward Hoyland
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1992)
as Macbeth (voice)
The Cloning of Joanna May (1992)
as Carl May
Red Fox (1991)
as Geoffrey Harrison
Performance (1991)
as The Director
Hidden Agenda (1990)
as Peter Kerrigan
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' (1990)
as self
Secret Weapon (1990)
as Andrew Neil
Perfect Scoundrels (1990)
as Father Amedy
Have I Got News for You (1990)
as Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy (1989)
as Self
The Blasphemers' Banquet (1989)
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
Murder on the Moon (1989)
as Voronov
The Simpsons (1989)
as Kostas Becker (voice)
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)
as Voiceover Narrator
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (1988)
as Jack Purves
Red Dwarf (1988)
as The King
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
as Self - Guest
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers (1988)
as Henrik Ibsen (voice)
Shoot for the Sun (1987)
as Dunny
Rat in the Skull (1987)
as Detective Inspector Nelson
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People (1987)
as Narrator
French & Saunders (1987)
as King Lear
Inspector Morse (1987)
as Michael Steppings
Acting (1987)
Manhunter (1986)
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Home Cooking (1986)
as Vic
Unnatural Causes (1986)
as Vic
Florence Nightingale (1985)
as Dr. McGregor
The Cantor of St Thomas's (1985)
as Johann Sebastian Bach
Pope John Paul II (1984)
as Father Góra
King Lear (1983)
as Burgundy
The Privilege (1982)
as Young Laird
A Cotswold Death (1982)
as Dr. Gillespie
House on the Hill (1981)
as Leon Douglas
Dalhousie's Luck (1980)
as Dalhousie
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
as Chuck
Therese Raquin (1980)
as Laurent LeClaire
Question Time (1979)
as Self - Panellist
Minder (1979)
as Frank
Out (1978)
as McGrath
The Devil's Crown (1978)
as Henry II
Target (1977)
as Billy Voss
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden (1976)
as George Simpson
In Celebration (1975)
as Steven Shaw
Shades of Greene (1975)
as Harry
The Master of Ballantrae (1975)
as Henry Durie
The Changeling (1974)
as Alsemero
Playhouse (1974)
as Dalhousie
Churchill's People (1974)
as William Wallace
Van der Valk (1972)
as Stefan Szabo
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
as Trotsky
Great Performances (1971)
as Self - Narration (voice)
Stage 2 (1971)
as Hastings
Manhunt (1970)
as Anton
Play for Today (1970)
as Dr. Gillespie
The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
as Lasar Opie
The Gamblers (1967)
as Mickey
ITV Playhouse (1967)
as Apeman
A Knight in Tarnished Armour (1965)
as Nelson
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
as Alsemero
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
as Josef Stalin
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
as Rod
Theatre 625 (1964)
as Lasar Opie
The Wednesday Play (1964)
as Nelson
A Modern Magician
as The Voice
The Glove
The Planets
Wittgenstein's Poker
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
Old Pals
as Jimmy
Super Troopers 4
as Captain O'Hagan
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
as Himself - Panellist

As Crew

Glenrothan (2026)
Director, Producer
Seven Jewish Children (2025)
Executive Producer
Little Wing (2024)
Executive Producer
The Escapist (2008)
Executive Producer
Red (2008)
Associate Producer
Oz (1997)
Director