Filmography
Brian Cox
The Simpsons
1989 · Kostas Becker (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self - Guest, Self
The Colbert Report
2005 · Actor
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Dexter: Resurrection
2025 · The New York Ripper
Frasier
1993 · Harry Moon
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
2014 · God
Have I Got News for You
1990 · Self
The One Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Great Performances
1971 · Self - Narration (voice)
Top Gear
2002 · Self
Shetland
2013 · Magnus Bain
Play for Today
1970 · Dr. Gillespie
Question Time
1979 · Self - Panellist
The Last Leg
2013 · Self
Richard & Judy
2001 · Self
Succession
2018 · Logan Roy
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
TBA · Himself - Panellist
Minder
1979 · Frank
Red Dwarf
1988 · The King
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
2000 · Anubis (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · Lewis Serrocold
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Nelson
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Alsemero
Superman: The Animated Series
1996 · Dr. Earl Garver (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
The Tony Danza Show
2004 · Self
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
2022 · Self – Actor, Self - Actor
ITV Playhouse
1967 · Apeman
Deadwood
2004 · Jack Langrishe
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Josef Stalin, Rod
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · Self - Participant
Troy
2004 · Agamemnon
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011 · Self, Self - Guest
Inspector Morse
1987 · Michael Steppings
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017 · Self
Playhouse
1974 · Dalhousie
Braveheart
1995 · Argyle Wallace
Theatre 625
1964 · Lasar Opie
Good Omens
2019 · Death (voice)
Penny Dreadful
2014 · Jared Talbot
Churchill's People
1974 · William Wallace
Sharpe
1993 · Major Hogan
The Bourne Identity
2002 · Ward Abbott
Medici: Masters of Florence
2016 · Bernardo Guadagni
Pixels
2015 · Admiral Porter
Her
2013 · Alan Watts (voice)
M.I. High
2007 · Voice of the Mastermind
Zodiac
2007 · Melvin Belli
Remembers…
2022 · Actor
Performance
1991 · The Director
The Russell Howard Hour
2017 · Self
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 · Action 12 Reporter (voice)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011 · John Landon
Van der Valk
1972 · Stefan Szabo
The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · Ward Abbott
Blade Runner: Black Lotus
2021 · Niander Wallace Sr. (voice)
French & Saunders
1987 · King Lear
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Helm Hammerhand (voice)
War and Peace
2016 · Mikhail Kutuzov
The Ring
2002 · Richard Morgan
RED
2010 · Ivan Simanov
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · Tommy Tilden
Super Troopers 3
2026 · Captain O’Hagan
Shrek 5
2027 · Shrek’s Father (voice)
RED 2
2013 · Ivan
The Electric State
2025 · Popfly (voice)
Hammer House of Horror
1980 · Chuck
The Colour of Magic
2008 · Narrator
Match Point
2005 · Alec Hewett
Trick 'r Treat
2007 · Mr. Kreeg
Kings
2009 · King Vesper Abaddon
That Christmas
2024 · Santa (voice)
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992 · Macbeth (voice)
The Take
2009 · Ozzy
A Touch of Cloth
2012 · Bill Ball
Kiss the Girls
1997 · Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
Target
1977 · Billy Voss
The Slap
2015 · Manolis
Nuremberg
2000 · Herman Wilhelm Goering
Adaptation.
2002 · Robert McKee
25th Hour
2002 · James Brogan
The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996 · Dr. Nathan Waldman
Manhunt
1970 · Anton
007: Road to a Million
2023 · The Controller
The Water Horse
2007 · Old Angus
The Game
2014 · Daddy
Super Troopers 2
2018 · Captain O'Hagan
The Campaign
2012 · Raymond
Super Troopers
2001 · Captain O'Hagen
Perfect Scoundrels
1990 · Father Amedy
Red Eye
2005 · Joe Reisert
Rushmore
1998 · Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Piers Morgan Uncensored
2022 · Self
Morgan
2016 · Jim Bryce
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
1988 · Henrik Ibsen (voice)
The Day of the Triffids
2009 · Dennis Masen
The Corruptor
1999 · Sean Wallace
Chain Reaction
1996 · Lyman Earl Collier
Unsinkable
2024 · Robert Dodds
Longitude
2000 · Lord Morton
The Sinking of the Laconia
2011 · Captain Sharp
For Love of the Game
1999 · Gary Wheeler
Unnatural Causes
1986 · Vic
One Life
2003 · Actor
L.I.E.
2001 · Big John Harrigan
The Gamblers
1967 · Mickey
The Straits
2012 · Harry Montebello
Separation
2021 · Rivers
The Parenting
2025 · Frank
Amol Rajan Interviews
2021 · Self - Interviewed Guest
Tooned
2012 · The Mechanic
Shades of Greene
1975 · Harry
I Love 1990s
2001 · Actor
Out
1978 · McGrath
The Great War: The People's Story
2014 · Rev. Andrew Clark
Iron Will
1994 · Angus McTeague
Forsaken
2015 · James McCurdy
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009 · Green Dragon (voice)
Last Moment of Clarity
2020 · Gilles
Desperate Measures
1998 · Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
Battle for Terra
2007 · General Hemmer (voice)
Anna
2013 · Sebastian
Ironclad
2011 · Albany
The Rookie
2002 · Jim Morris Sr.
The Glimmer Man
1996 · Mr. Smith
Red
2008 · Avery Ludlow, Associate Producer
House on the Hill
1981 · Leon Douglas
Bob Servant
2013 · Bob Servant
Rob Roy
1995 · Killearn
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
2023 · Self
There Are No Saints
2022 · Actor
Strange but True
2019 · Bill
The Affair of the Necklace
2001 · Minister Breteuil
The Anomaly
2014 · Dr. Langham
The Bay of Silence
2020 · Milton
Coriolanus
2011 · Menenius
An Adventure in Space and Time
2013 · Sydney Newman
The Boxer
1997 · Joe Hamill
Churchill
2017 · Winston Churchill
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011 · Glover
Glenrothan
2026 · Sandy, Director
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971 · Trotsky
The Independent
2022 · Nick Booker
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
2017 · Conrad / Crunch (voice)
The Cloning of Joanna May
1992 · Carl May
The Ringer
2005 · Gary Barker
Blood
2012 · Lenny Fairburn
Acting
1987 · Actor
Running with Scissors
2006 · Dr. Finch
Stage 2
1971 · Hastings
As Good As Dead
2010 · Reverand Kalahan
Therese Raquin
1980 · Laurent LeClaire
Prisoner's Daughter
2023 · Max
Poodle Springs
1998 · Clayton Blackstone
The Big Battalions
1992 · Edward Hoyland
VE Day 80
2025 · Self
A Shot at Glory
2000 · Martin Smith
Mending the Line
2023 · Ike Fletcher
The Minus Man
1999 · Doug
Quasi
2023 · Narrator (voice)
The Reckoning
2004 · Tobias
Sharpe's Rifles
1993 · Major Michael Hogan
The Flying Scotsman
2006 · Douglas Baxter
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
2008 · Narrator
The Escapist
2008 · Frank Perry, Executive Producer
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 · Other Voices (voice)
Hidden Agenda
1990 · Peter Kerrigan
The Veteran
2011 · Gerry
Longitude
2000 · Lord Morton
The Good Heart
2009 · Jacques
The Devil's Crown
1978 · Henry II
Sharpe: The Legend
1997 · Hogan
Believe
2013 · Matt Busby
The Last Right
2019 · Father Reilly
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005 · Joseph Bell
The Master of Ballantrae
1975 · Henry Durie
Wittgenstein's Poker
TBA · Bertrand Russell (voice)
Sin
2003 · Captain Oakes
Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022 · Self
Pope John Paul II
1984 · Father Góra
Exit Humanity
2011 · Malcolm Young (voice)
Tell-Tale
2009 · Van Doren
Pretenders
2019 · Henry
Prince of Jutland
1994 · Aethelwine
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992 · Owen Benjamin
The Etruscan Smile
2018 · Rory MacNeil
I, Caesar – The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
1997 · Narrator
Merchants of Venus
1998 · Uncle Vladimir
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988 · Jack Purves
Remember Me
2019 · Shane
Made of Money with Brian Cox
2023 · Actor
Shoot on Sight
2007 · Daniel Tennant
The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000 · Self
The Carer
2016 · Sir Michael
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022 · Self
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021 · Narrator (voice)
Mad About Mambo
2000 · Sidney McLoughlin
Little Wing
2024 · Jaan Vari, Executive Producer
Strictly Sinatra
2001 · Chisolm
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
2008 · Narrator
Sharpe's Eagle
1993 · Major Michael Hogan
Home Cooking
1986 · Vic
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002 · Narrator
Japan's War in Colour
2005 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Murder on the Moon
1989 · Voronov
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Self
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002 · Self
Brian Cox: How The Other Half Live
2022 · Presenter
Dalhousie's Luck
1980 · Dalhousie
All at Sea
2012 · Wally
Saltwater
2000 · George Beneventi
Florence Nightingale
1985 · Dr. McGregor
Grushko
1994 · Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
Lindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
2004 · Self
The Key Man
2011 · Irving
Brian Cox's Russia
2017 · Host
Bug
2002 · Cyr
X2
2003 · William Stryker
The Outsiders
2006 · Gabriel
Witness Against Hitler
1996 · Judge Freisler
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002 · Narrator
Red Fox
1991 · Geoffrey Harrison
The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007 · Drosselmeyer
Murder by Numbers
2004 · Self
Carry On Ken
2006 · Self
Blumenthal
2013 · Harold Blumenthal
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
2025 · Gustaf Wallenberg (voice)
Bonnie
2022 · Self
Killing Thyme
2015 · Norman
The Gospel of John
2014 · Narrator (voice) – King James Version
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
2003 · Self
Lawrence After Arabia
2020 · Father (Voice)
Old Pals
TBA · Jimmy
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016 · Self
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976 · George Simpson
The Negotiator
1994 · Charlie King
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968 · Lasar Opie
The Maltese Double Cross
1994 · Narrator (voice)
Complicity
2000 · Inspector McDunn
Agent Crush
2008 · Spanners (voice)
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016 · Self
Scotland In A Day
2014 · Actor
Addicted to Pleasure
2012 · Self - Host
The Sunrise File
2026 · Oded Ailam (voice)
Hitler in Colour
2005 · Narrator
The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000 · Dr. Morel
The Biographer
2002 · Michael O'Mara
An Interview with Brian Cox
2023 · Himself
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987 · Narrator
Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
2002 · Narrator
The Marbles
2025 · Self - Interviewee
The Curse of Edgar
2013 · Edgar Hoover
The Changeling
1974 · Alsemero
Skelly
2024 · Grandpa
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023 · Narrator (voice)
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009 · Self
Ooh the Banter!
2022 · Self
A Woman in Winter
2007 · Dr. Hunt
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965 · Nelson
Masters of Darkness
2002 · Narrator
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988 · Voiceover Narrator
Shoot for the Sun
1987 · Dunny
The Privilege
1982 · Young Laird
Secret Weapon
1990 · Andrew Neil
King Lear
1983 · Burgundy
Inside 'Manhunter'
2001 · Himself
On Expenses
2010 · Michael Martin
Food for Ravens
1997 · Aneurin Bevan
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015 · Andrew Carnegie (voice)
Pacific Warriors
2015 · Narrator
The Cutter
1992 · Actor
Rat in the Skull
1987 · Detective Inspector Nelson
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002 · Narrator
The Planets
TBA · Actor
In Celebration
1975 · Steven Shaw
A Modern Magician
TBA · The Voice
Deceptions
1992 · Carlton Heard
AMR: Dying to Change the World
2025 · AMR
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012 · Old Man
Blue/Orange
2005 · Dr. Robert Smith
The Glove
TBA · Actor
The History of the British Police Force
1999 · Narrator (voice)
Just Dandy
TBA · Self
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989 · Self
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990 · self
The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989 · Rev. Wallace (voice)
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017 · Narrator
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020 · John Rebus
Widdershins
2018 · voice
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017 · Himself
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985 · Johann Sebastian Bach
Battle of the Clans
1998 · Narrator
Super Troopers 4
TBA · Captain O'Hagan
A Cotswold Death
1982 · Dr. Gillespie
Presenting Geraldine Page
TBA · Actor
Kubrick by Candlelight
2018 · The Narrator
Manhunter
1986 · Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992 · The Director