Brian Cox Movies and TV Shows, Age, Accent, Height, Weight Loss

Brian Denis Cox CBE is a Scottish actor. He has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre extensively, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear.

Cox was born on 1 June 1946 in Dundee, Scotland as the youngest of five children. Brian Cox began his acting career at age 14 at Dundee Repertory Theatre in 1961 and then as one of the founding members of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, performing in its first show, The Servant O’ Twa Maisters, in October 1965.

Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in Nuremberg, and received nominations at the Golden Globe Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards. His performance in L.I.E. earned him an AFI Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination.

Cox has written three books: Salem to Moscow: An Actor’s Odyssey, The Lear Diaries, and his autobiography Putting the Rabbit in the Hat. He was honoured at the 2004 BAFTA Scotland Awards with an Outstanding Achievement Award, and at the 2004 Great Scot Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Brian Cox Movies and TV Shows

2024 The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
2022 Prisoner’s Daughter
2022 Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022 There Are No Saints
2022 Piers Morgan Uncensored (2 episodes) as Self
2021 Blade Runner: Black Lotus (5 episodes) as Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
2021 Separation as Rivers
2021 Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story as Self – narrator
2020 Last Moment of Clarity as Gilles
2020 The Bay of Silence as Milton
2020 John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues as John Rebus
2020 Lawrence After Arabia as Father (Voice)
2019 The Last Right as Father Reilly
2019 Strange but True as Bill
2019 Pretenders
2019 Remember Me as Shane
2019 Good Omens (3 episodes) as Death (voice)
2019 The Etruscan Smile as Rory MacNeil
2018 Kubrick by Candlelight as The Narrator
2018 Widdershins as voice
2018 Succession (29 episodes) as Logan Roy
2018 Super Troopers 2 as Captain O’Hagan
2017 An Evening with Brian Cox as Himself
2017 Bob the Builder: Mega Machines – The Movie as Conrad / Crunch (voice)
2017 Churchill as Winston Churchill
2017 Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation as Narrator
2016 The Autopsy of Jane Doe as Tommy Tilden
2016 Medici: Masters of Florence (8 episodes) as Bernardo Guadagni
2016 Morgan as Jim Bryce
2016 The Carer as Sir Michael
2016 War and Peace (6 episodes) as Mikhail Kutuzov
2015 Forsaken as James McCurdy
2015 Pacific Warriors as Narrator
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2 episodes) as Self
2015 Pixels as Admiral Porter
2015 Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
2015 The Slap (8 episodes) as Manolis
2014 The Game (6 episodes) as Daddy
2014 Scotland In A Day
2014 The Great War: The People’s Story (1 episode) as Rev. Andrew Clark
2014 The Anomaly as Dr. Langham
2014 Penny Dreadful (9 episodes) as Jared Talbot
2014 Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (1 episode) as God
2013 Her as Alan Watts (voice)
2013 An Adventure in Space and Time as Sydney Newman
2013 The Curse of Edgar as Edgar Hoover
2013 Anna as Sebastian
2013 Believe as Matt Busby
2013 Blumenthal as Harold Blumenthal
2013 RED 2 as Ivan
2013 Shetland (2 episodes) as Magnus Bain
2013 Bob Servant (9 episodes) as Bob Servant
2012 Blood as Lenny Fairburn
2012 A Touch of Cloth (1 episode) as Bill Ball (0 episodes)
2012 The Campaign as Raymond
2012 Tooned (8 episodes) as The Mechanic
2012 Wide Blue Yonder as Wally
2012 The Straits (10 episodes) as Harry Montebello
2012 I Missed My Mother’s Funeral as Old Man
2011 Exit Humanity as Malcolm Young (voice)
2011 Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster as Glover
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes as John Landon
2011 The Veteran as Gerry
2011 Ironclad as Albany
2011 The Key Man as Irving
2011 Coriolanus as Menenius
2011 The Sinking of the Laconia (2 episodes) as Captain Sharp
2010 RED as Ivan Simanov
2010 On Expenses
2010 As Good As Dead as Reverend Kalahan
2009 The Day of the Triffids (2 episodes) as Dennis Masen
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
2009 The Good Heart as Jacques
2009 The Take (4 episodes) as Ozzy
2009 Tell-Tale as Van Doren
2009 Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword as Green Dragon (voice)
2008 Shoot on Sight as Daniel Tennant
2008 Red as Avery Ludlow
2008 The Escapist as Frank Perry
2008 The Colour of Magic (2 episodes) as Narrator
2008 Agent Crush as Spanners (voice)
2007 The Water Horse as Old Angus
2007 The Secret of the Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer
2007 Trick ‘r Treat as Mr. Kreeg
2007 Battle for Terra as General Hemmer (voice)
2007 Have I Got a Bit More News for You (1 episode) as Himself – Panellist
2007 A Woman in Winter as Dr. Hunt
2007 Zodiac as Melvin Belli
2007 The Graham Norton Show (1 episode) as Himself
2006 Running with Scissors as Dr. Finch
2006 The Outsiders as Gabriel
2006 The Flying Scotsman as Douglas Baxter
2006 The One Show (1 episode) as Self – Guest
2006 Carry on Ken
2005 The Ringer as Gary Barker
2005 Match Point as Alec Hewett
2005 The Colbert Report (1 episode)
2005 The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle as Joseph Bell
2005 Red Eye as Joe Reisert
2005 Hitler in Colour as Narrator
2005 Blue/Orange as Dr. Robert Smith
2005 Japan’s War In Colour as Narrator
2004 Lost (1 episode)
2004 The Tony Danza Show (1 episode)
2004 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004 The Bourne Supremacy as Ward Abbott
2004 Troy as King Agamemnon
2004 Deadwood (9 episodes) as Jack Langrishe
2004 The Reckoning as Tobias
2004 Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man? as Interviewee
2003 The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men: Making X2 as Himself
2003 One Life (1 episode)
2003 X2 as William Stryker
2003 Real Time with Bill Maher (1 episode) as Self
2003 Sin as Captain Oakes
2002 25th Hour as James Brogan
2002 Adaptation. as Robert McKee
2002 Aleister Crowley – The Wickedest Man in the World as Narrator
2002 Top Gear (2 episodes) as Himself
2002 The Ring as Richard Morgan
2002 The Biographer as Michael O’Mara
2002 The Bourne Identity as Ward Abbott
2002 The Rookie as Jim Morris Sr.
2002 Bug as Cyr
2002 Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh as Narrator
2002 Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon as Narrator
2001 Richard & Judy (2 episodes) as Self
2001 The Affair of the Necklace as Minister Breteuil
2001 Strictly Sinatra as Chisolm
2001 Inside ‘Manhunter’ as Himself
2001 L.I.E. as Big John Harrigan
2001 Super Troopers as Captain O’Hagan
2000 Saltwater as George Beneventi
2000 Nuremberg (2 episodes) as Herman Wilhelm Goering
2000 Nuremberg as Herman Wilhelm Goering
2000 Complicity as Inspector McDunn
2000 A Shot at Glory as Martin Smith
2000 Mad About Mambo as Sidney McLoughlin
2000 The Invention of Dr. Morel as Dr. Morel
2000 Longitude as Lord Morton
1999 For Love of the Game as Gary Wheeler
1999 The Corruptor as Sean Wallace
1999 The Minus Man as Doug
1998 Rushmore as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
1998 Poodle Springs as Clayton Blackstone
1998 Merchants of Venus as Uncle Vladimir
1998 Desperate Measures as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
1997 The Boxer as Joe Hamill
1997 Food for Ravens as Aneurin Bevan
1997 Kiss the Girls as Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D.
1996 The Long Kiss Goodnight as Dr. Nathan Waldman
1996 The Glimmer Man as Mr. Smith
1996 Superman: The Animated Series (1 episode) as Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
1996 Chain Reaction as Lyman Earl Collier
1996 The Daily Show with Trevor Noah (1 episode)
1995 Rob Roy as Killearn
1995 Braveheart as Argyle Wallace
1994 The Maltese Double Cross as Narrator (voice)
1994 The Negotiator as Charlie King
1994 Grushko as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
1994 Royal Deceit as Aethelwine
1994 Iron Will as Angus McTeague
1993 Frasier (2 episodes) as Harry Moon
1993 Sharpe’s Eagle as Major Michael Hogan
1993 Sharpe (2 episodes) as Major Hogan
1993 Sharpe’s Rifles as Major Michael Hogan
1992 Six Characters in Search of An Author as The Director
1992 Macbeth as Macbeth (voice)
1992 The Big Battalions (5 episodes) as Edward Hoyland
1992 The Cutter
1992 The Lost Language of Cranes as Owen Benjamin
1992 The Cloning of Joanna May as Carl May
1992 Deceptions as Carlton Heard
1991 Red Fox as Geoffrey Harrison
1990 Hidden Agenda as Peter Kerrigan
1990 Secret Weapon as Andrew Neil
1989 The Simpsons (2 episodes) as Kostas Becker (voice)
1989 Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy as Self
1989 Murder on the Moon as Voronov
1988 Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky as Voiceover Narrator
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Ryan (1 episode) as Self – Guest
1988 Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun as Jack Purves
1988 Red Dwarf (1 episode) as The King
1987 Acting (1 episode)
1987 French & Saunders (1 episode) as King Lear
1987 Inspector Morse (1 episode)
1987 Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People as Narrator
1987 Rat in the Skull as Detective Inspector Nelson
1986 Home Cooking as Vic
1986 Manhunter as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
1985 Florence Nightingale as Dr. McGregor
1985 The Cantor of St Thomas’s as Johann Sebastian Bach
1984 Pope John Paul II as Father Góra
1983 King Lear as Burgundy
1982 A Cotswold Death as Dr. Gillespie
1982 The Privilege as Young Laird
1980 Hammer House of Horror (1 episode) as Chuck
1980 Thérèse Raquin (3 episodes) as Laurent LeClaire
1979 Minder (1 episode) as Frank
1979 Question Time (4 episodes) as Self – Panellist
1978 Out (3 episodes) as McGrath
1978 The Devil’s Crown (13 episodes) as Henry II of England
1976 Clay, Smeddum and Greenden as George Simpson
1975 In Celebration as Steven Shaw
1974 The Changeling as Alsemero
1972 Van der Valk (1 episode)
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra as Trotsky
1971 Great Performances (1 episode) as self
1970 Play for Today (1 episode)
1968 The Year of the Sex Olympics as Lasar Opie
1965 A Knight in Tarnished Armour as Nelson

Brian Cox Age

76 years

Brian Cox Accent

Brian Cox was doing a “mid-Atlantic” accent under the impression he was Canadian until midway through season one. This show remains the biggest Anglosphere actor accent catastrophe on television heraldscotland

Brian Cox Height

1.76 m

Brian Cox Weight Loss

Since Cox’s character struggled with his health and looked slightly leaner in the series, people started speculating that the actor, as well as his character, underwent weight loss.

However, the speculations hold no truth. Speaking with the Entertainment Weekly in November 2021, the actor admitted he hadn’t shed weight and was in “much better physical shape” than his on-screen character.

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