Brian Cox

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

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Helen Mirren at the BBC (1974-1982): Dir. Anthony Page, Claude Whatham, Stuart Burge
Feat. Helen Mirren, Sir Stanley Baker, Brian Cox…; Boxed set featuring nine BBC films starring one of the Grand Dames of the British stage and screen, Helen Mirren. Disc 1: 'The Changeling' (1974)…
American Film Theatre - In Celebration (1975): Dir. Lindsay Anderson
Feat. Alan Bates, Brian Cox, Gabrielle Daye…; A tightly framed screen adaptation of David Storey's autobiographical play set around the reunion of a Nottinghamshire mining family, in which cast…
Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) (1980): Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Peter Cushing, Diana Dors…; The last gasp of the Hammer Horror franchise was this low–budget TV series. Combining some inventive plotting, gore and a little nudity with…
Manhunter (1986): Dir. Michael Mann
Feat. Brian Cox, William Petersen; Brooding 'psycho'–drama based on Thomas Harris' novel 'Red Dragon', featuring an appearance of the pre–iconic Hannibal Lechter character…
Hidden Agenda (1990): Dir. Ken Loach
Feat. Brian Cox, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif…; Perhaps dir. Loach’s most genre–based film, this political thriller about sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland in the early 1980s involves…
Sharpe (TV Series) (1993-1998): Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Sean Bean, Brian Cox; Various teledramas adapting Bernard Cornwall's famous novels about the adventures of an officer in the 19th century British Army. In perhaps his best…
Prince of Jutland (Prince of Denmark) (1994): Dir. Gabriel Axel
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Helen Mirren, Christian Bale…; Retelling of the historical episode on which Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' was based, where a Danish prince feigns madness to avoid being murdered by his…
Complicity (1998): Dir. Gavin Millar
Feat. Jonny Lee Miller, Brian Cox, Paul Higgins…; A story of serial–killing from the pen of Iain Banks, pits left–wing journalist Jonny Lee Miller (TRAINSPOTTING) alongside a maniac with…
Minus Man, The (1999): Dir. Hampton Fancher
Feat. Owen Wilson, Mercedes Ruehl, Janeane Garofalo…; Comic actor Owen Wilson is sort–of cast against type as an impassive, child–like drifter with a penchant for random poisonings, settling…
Longitude (1999): Dir. Charles Sturridge
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon, Stephen Fry…; Adapted from the book by Dava Sobel, this tells the intriguing story surrounding the 18th century search for an accurate way to calculate longitude,…
Shot at Glory, A (The Cup) (2000): Dir. Michael Corrente
Feat. Robert Duvall, Michael Keaton, Brian Cox…; Robert Duvall is successfully cast as the manager of a minor Scottish soccor team, which has been bought and remodeled by an American…
Nuremberg (2000): Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox…; This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
Strictly Sinatra (Cocozza's Way) (2001): Dir. Peter Capaldi
Feat. Ian Hart, Brian Cox, Kelly MacDonald; Smalltime Scottish crooner Ian Hart has a thing about Frank Sinatra and like his idol flirts a little too closely with the criminal element. This…
L.I.E. (2001): Dir. Michael Cuesta
Feat. Brian Cox, Paul Dano, Billy Kay…; Unsettling coming of age drama with Paul Dano as a troubled and lonely young man who after the death of his mother befriends paedophile Brian…
Bourne Identity, The (2002): Dir. Doug Liman
Feat. Matt Damon, Franke Potente, Chris Cooper…; A stylish transcription of the Robert Ludlum thriller, with amnesiac CIA super–agent Matt Damon scrambling to survive as he’s hunted…
Ring, The (2002): Dir. Gore Verbinski
Feat. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox; Fitfully creepy American remake of the influential Japanese horror film that surprisingly manages to replicate the foreboding (and uniquely Japanese)…
X-Men 2 (2002): Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Patrick Stewart…; A new war between humans and mutants looks to boil over in this sure–footed sci–fi sequel, again steered by dir. Singer. Centred…
Super Troopers (2002): Dir. Jay Chandrasekhar
Feat. Jay Chandrasekhar, Brian Cox, Daniel von Bargen; A group of five randy state troopers in Vermont find their future of patrolling the highways is threatened and try to outdo the local police in…
Rookie, The (2002): Dir. John Lee Hancock
Feat. Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths, Jay Hernandez…; Disney sports drama based on the true story of Jim Morris, who had a brief but famous Major League Baseball career in 1999–2000.
Reckoning, The (2003): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Vincent Cassel…; A sober minded recreation of plague–blasted England of the Middle Ages, with Bettany cowling–up as a monk on the run who falls in with a…
Troy (2004): Dir. Wolfgang Petersen
Feat. Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom…; Homer's epic is cranked up to full fury in this Hollywood CGI–ed adaptation, depicting the seige of Troy by the vengeful Greek army and the…
Bourne Supremacy, The (2004): Dir. Paul Greengrass
Feat. Matt Damon, Franke Potente, Brian Cox…; Creditable sequel to the sleeper hit THE BOURNE IDENTITY, which tracked the anxieties of an amnesiac former CIA–assassin on the run across…
Red Eye (2005): Dir. Wes Craven
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox; Dir. Wes Craven whittles a lean, claustrophobic thriller around the plight of a woman (McAdams), menaced onboard of short–haul plane flight by…
Match Point (2005): Dir. Woody Allen
Feat. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Scarlett Johansson…; Widely touted as Woody Allen's finest film since the mid–80's, this is also his least characteristic – set in London and entirely…
Ringer, The (2005): Dir. Barry W. Blaustein
Feat. Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox; A taboo–fumbling–dodging comedy in which, due to a large outstanding debt, Johnny Knoxville (JACKASS) poses as mentally handicapped and…
History Of The British Police Force, The (2006): Feat. Brian Cox; Fairly detailed and illuminating history of the British bobby, from the days of Sir Robert Peel's first 'peeler' through to the large–scale…
Running with Scissors (2006): Dir. Ryan Murphy
Feat. Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes…; Star–studded adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ humourous yet hard–hitting memoir of a childhood locked between distanced and abusive…
Flying Scotsman, The (2006): Dir. Douglas Mackinnon
Feat. Jonny Lee Miller, Brian Cox, William Boyd; Dramatisation of triumphant Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, who overcame personal demons and sports admin flak to break the world one–hour…
Zodiac (2007): Dir. David Fincher
Feat. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards…; Intense, painstaking thriller from the dir. of SEVEN magnifies San Francisco's unsolved ‘Zodiac’ killings with obsessive compulsion and…
Water Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007): Dir. Jay Russell
Feat. Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, Emily Watson…; NZ–filmed magical adventure inspired by the legend of Loch Ness in which a small boy secretly adopts a baby mythical creature that grows to…
Shoot on Sight (2007): Dir. Jag Mundhra
Feat. Naseeruddin Shah, Greta Scacchi, Om Puri…; Not so much hot potato as lukewarm, this political thriller bases its story on the real–life shooting of an innocent Brazilian man gunned down…
Battle for Terra (2007): Dir. Aristomenis Tsirbas
Feat. Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, James Garner; A peaceful alien race comes under siege from a human race starved of natural resources in this animated sci–fi adventure. Owen Wilson and Evan…
Red (2008): Dir. Trygve Allister Diesen, Lucky McKee
Feat. Brian Cox, Noel Fisher, Tom Sizemore…; A surprisingly restrained revenge thriller, with Brian Cox as the owner of a murdered dog seeking retribution. Muddled, but has its moments.
Escapist, The (2008): Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. Brian Cox, Damian Lewis, Joseph Fiennes; This straight–up escape movie delivers all the thrills and spills of the durable prison genre, with old–timer Brian Cox hatching a master…
Trick 'r Treat (Trick or Treat) (2008): Dir. Michael Dougherty
Feat. Dylan Baker, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin…; Well–crafted horror that interweaves five spooky stories on the same Halloween night, subverting familiar urban legends into unexpected new…
Take, The (TV Mini-series) (2009): Dir. David Drury
Feat. Tom Hardy, Brian Cox, Shaun Evans…; Stylish, tough–as–nails gangland mini–series follows the fortunes of a recently released convict set on taking the London…
Day of the Triffids (TV Mini-Series) (2009): Dir. Nick Copus
Feat. Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard…; This second–stab by the BBC excitingly updates John Wyndham's cautionary sci–fi novel with a big budget and spectacular special effects.…
Tell Tale (2009): Dir. Michael Cuesta
Feat. Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox…; A man's newly transplanted heart leads him on a dangerous journey to find out who murdered its donor in this nerve–jangling adaptation of the…
RED (R.E.D.) (2010): Dir. Robert Schwentke
Feat. Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Helen Mirren…; Entertaining cannon fodder, this is yet another comic book adaptation of assassins on the lam, but one distinguished by its dynamite cast and…
Ironclad (2011): Dir. Jonathan English
Feat. Brian Cox, Jason Flemyng, James Purefoy…; Thumping medieval actioner has a group of Knights Templar fighting to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John. Satisfyingly bloody…
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011): Dir. Rupert Wyatt
Feat. James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow…; A thought–provoking prequel to the PLANET OF THE APES legacy, set during the present day where a genetically–enhanced chimpanzee uses its…
Sinking of the Laconia, The (TV Mini-Series) (2011): Dir. Uwe Janson
Feat. Andrew Buchan, Brian Cox, Franke Potente; Gripping reenactment of the events surrounding the ill–fated Laconia, a British ocean liner crippled by a German U–boat, who in turn…
Blood (2012): Dir. Nick Murphy
Feat. Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox…; Though fairly derivative, this overcast thriller about a family of policemen who struggle to cover up the death of a murder suspect they've also been…
An Adventure In Space In Time (2013): Dir. Terry McDonough
Feat. David Bradley, Brian Cox, Jessica Raine; Dramatic re–telling of the creation of the television series Doctor Who, created to celebrate the shows fiftieth anniversary, boasts an…
Mindscape (Anna) (2013): Dir. Jorge Dorado
Feat. Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Brian Cox…; Psychological thriller set in the near future, where a 'memory detective' is tasked with entering the mind of a troubled 16–year–old girl…
Game, The (TV Mini-Series) (2014): Feat. Brian Cox, Tom Hughes, Jonathan Aris…; Brian Cox leads the cast in this Cold War spy thriller set in the world of 1970's espionage. It tells the story of the invisible war fought by MI5…
Pixels (2015): Dir. Chris Columbus
Feat. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan…; Adam Sandler and pals must use their old–school gaming skills to save the world after aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games…
War and Peace (TV Series) (2016): Dir. Tom Harper
Feat. Paul Dano, Lily James, James Norton…; Stellar BBC take on the Tolstoy's classic tale of aristocratic families caught in the tumult of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Carer, The (2016): Dir. János Edelényi
Feat. Brian Cox, Anna Chancellor, Emilia Fox…; The redoubtable Brian Cox stars in this likeable, if familiar, drama about an ailing thespian and his relationship with a young immigrant actress who…
Autopsy of Jane Doe, The (2016): Dir. André Øvredal
Feat. Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond…; Intense and acclaimed supernatural horror from the director of TROLL HUNTER, about a coroner and his son who conduct a late–night autopsy on…
Churchill (2017): Dir. Jonathan Teplitzky
Feat. Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery; Brian Cox delivers an impressive performance as iconic Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the days before the D–Day landings in June 1944.
Rory's Way (The Etruscan Smile) (2018): Dir. Mihal Brezis, Oded Binnun
Feat. Brian Cox, Thora Birch, JJ Feild…; A rugged old Scotsman (a winning performance from Brian Cox) reluctantly leaves his isolated Hebridean island to seek medical treatment in San…
Succession (TV series) (2018): Feat. Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong, Kieran Culkin…; Provocative and witty satirical drama created by Jesse Armstrong (IN THE LOOP) about a dysfunctional dynasty led by an aging patriarch (Brian Cox).

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Filmography (All Films)