Brian Cox Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Brian Cox filmography covers 97 movie titles and 30 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Brian Cox movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) as Trotsky
• Manhunter (1986) as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
• Hidden Agenda (1990) as Peter Kerrigan
• The Lost Language of Cranes (1992) as Owen Benjamin
• Sharpe's Eagle (1993) as Major Michael Hogan
• Sharpe's Rifles (1993) as Major Michael Hogan
• Iron Will (1994) as Angus McTeague
• Prince of Jutland (1994) as Aethelwine
• Braveheart (1995) as Argyle Wallace
• Rob Roy (1995) as Killearn
• Chain Reaction (1996) as Lyman Earl Collier
• The Glimmer Man (1996) as Mr. Smith
• The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) as Dr. Nathan Waldman
• Kiss the Girls (1997) as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
• The Boxer (1997) as Joe Hamill
• Desperate Measures (1998) as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
• Poodle Springs (1998) as Clayton Blackstone
• Rushmore (1998) as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
• For Love of the Game (1999) as Gary Wheeler
• The Corruptor (1999) as Sean Wallace
• The Minus Man (1999) as Doug
• A Shot at Glory (2000) as Martin Smith
• Longitude (2000) as Lord Morton
• Mad About Mambo (2000) as Sidney McLoughlin
• L.I.E. (2001) as Big John Harrigan
• Super Troopers (2001) as Captain O'Hagen
• The Affair of the Necklace (2001) as Minister Breteuil
• 25th Hour (2002) as James Brogan
• Adaptation. (2002) as Robert McKee
• Bug (2002) as Cyr
• The Bourne Identity (2002) as Ward Abbott
• The Ring (2002) as Richard Morgan
• The Rookie (2002) as Jim Morris Sr.
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) as Self
• Sin (2003) as Captain Oakes
• X2 (2003) as William Stryker
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004) as Ward Abbott
• The Reckoning (2004) as Tobias
• Troy (2004) as King Agamemnon
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) as Other Voices (voice)
• Match Point (2005) as Alec Hewett
• Red Eye (2005) as Joe Reisert
• The Ringer (2005) as Gary Barker
• Running with Scissors (2006) as Dr. Finch
• The Flying Scotsman (2006) as Douglas Baxter
• Battle for Terra (2007) as General Hemmer (voice)
• Shoot on Sight (2007) as Daniel Tennant
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Water Horse (2007) as Old Angus
• Trick 'r Treat (2007) as Mr. Kreeg
• Zodiac (2007) as Melvin Belli
• Red (2008) as Avery Ludlow
• The Escapist (2008) as Frank Perry
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
• Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword (2009) as Green Dragon (voice)
• Tell-Tale (2009) as Van Doren
• The Good Heart (2009) as Jacques
• As Good As Dead (2010) as Reverend Kalahan
• RED (2010) as Ivan Simanov
• Coriolanus (2011) as Menenius
• Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011) as Glover
• Exit Humanity (2011) as Malcolm Young (voice)
• Ironclad (2011) as Albany
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) as John Landon
• The Veteran (2011) as Gerry
• Blood (2012) as Lenny Fairburn
• The Campaign (2012) as Raymond
• An Adventure in Space and Time (2013) as Sydney Newman
• Anna (2013) as Sebastian
• Believe (2013) as Matt Busby
• Her (2013) as Alan Watts (voice)
• RED 2 (2013) as Ivan
• The Anomaly (2014) as Dr. Langham
• The Gospel of John (2014) as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
• Forsaken (2015) as James McCurdy
• Pixels (2015) as Admiral Porter
• Morgan (2016) as Jim Bryce
• The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) as Tommy Tilden
• The Carer (2016) as Sir Michael
• Churchill (2017) as Winston Churchill
• Super Troopers 2 (2018) as John O'Hagen
• The Etruscan Smile (2018) as Rory MacNeil
• Remember Me (2019) as Shane
• Strange but True (2019) as Bill
• The Last Right (2019) as Father Reilly
• Last Moment of Clarity (2020) as Gilles
• The Bay of Silence (2020) as Milton
• Separation (2021) as Rivers
• The Independent (2022) as Nick Booker
• Mending the Line (2023) as Ike Fletcher
• Prisoner's Daughter (2023) as Max
• Quasi (2023) as Narrator (voice)
• Little Wing (2024) as Jaan Vari
• That Christmas (2024) as Santa (voice)
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
• The Electric State (2025) as Popfly (voice)
• The Parenting (2025) as Frank

Brian Cox television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Brian Cox; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• A Touch of Cloth as Bill Ball
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force as Anubis (voice)
• Blade Runner: Black Lotus as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
• Carpool Karaoke: The Series as Self
• Deadwood as Jack Langrishe
• Dexter: Resurrection as New York Ripper
• Frasier as Harry Moon
• French & Saunders as King Lear
• Good Omens as Death (voice)
• Great Performances as Self - Narration (voice)
• Hammer House of Horror as Chuck
• Inspector Morse as Michael Steppings
• Kings as King Vesper Abaddon
• Medici: Masters of Florence as Bernardo Guadagni
• Minder as Frank
• Nuremberg as Herman Wilhelm Goering
• Penny Dreadful as Jared Talbot
• Red Dwarf as The King
• Sharpe as Major Hogan
• Shetland as Magnus Bain
• Succession as Logan Roy
• Superman: The Animated Series as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
• The Colour of Magic as Narrator
• The Day of the Triffids as Dennis Masen
• The Game as Daddy
• The Simpsons as Kostas Becker (voice)
• The Sinking of the Laconia as Captain Sharp
• The Slap as Manolis
• The Take as Ozzy
• War and Peace as Mikhail Kutuzov

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Brian Cox's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.