Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor. A classically trained Shakespearean actor, he is known for his work on stage and screen. His numerous accolades include two Laurence Olivier Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as a nomination for a British Academy Television Award. In 2003, he was appointed to the Order of the British Empire at the rank of Commander. Cox trained at the Dundee Repertory Theatre before becoming a founding member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. He went on to train as a Shakespearean actor, starring in numerous productions with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he gained recognition for his portrayal of King Lear. Cox received two Laurence Olivier Awards for Best Actor for his roles in Rat in the Skull (1984), for Royal Court, and Titus Andronicus (1988). He received two more Olivier Award nominations for Misalliance (1986) and Fashion (1988). Known as a character actor in film, he played Robert McKee in Spike Jonze's Adaptation (2002) and William Stryker in X2 (2003). For his starring role in L.I.E. (2001), he received an Independent Spirit Award nomination. His other notable films include Manhunter (1986), Iron Will (1994), Braveheart (1995), The Boxer (1997), The Rookie (2002), Troy (2004), Match Point (2005), The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007), Coriolanus (2011), Pixels (2015), and Churchill (2017). Cox won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his portrayal of Hermann Göring in the television film Nuremberg (2001). The following year, he guest starred on the NBC sitcom Frasier, earning his second Emmy nomination in 2002. He portrayed Jack Langrishe in the HBO series Deadwood. He starred as Logan Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018-2023), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series.
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Super Troopers 3
The Sunrise File- AMAMR: Dying to Change the World
The Electric State
The Parenting
Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction
The Marbles
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
That Christmas
Little Wing
Skelly
Quasi
An Interview with Brian Cox
Bill Douglas - My Best Friend
Ooh the Banter!
The Independent
Ukraine: Answering the Call
Bonnie
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
Prisoner's Daughter
Mending the Line
Separation
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
Lawrence: After Arabia
The Bay of Silence
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
Last Moment of Clarity
The Last Right
Remember Me
Strange But True
Kubrick by Candlelight
Widdershins
Super Troopers 2
The Etruscan Smile
The Pretenders- ANAn Evening with Brian Cox
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines
Churchill
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Morgan
Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
The Carer
Killing Thyme
Forsaken
Pacific Warriors
Pixels
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace- SCScotland In A Day
The Gospel of John
The Anomaly
Her
An Adventure in Space and Time
The Curse of Edgar
Anna
Blumenthal
RED 2
Believe
Just Dandy
Blood
The Campaign
All at Sea- I I Missed My Mother's Funeral
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Veteran
Ironclad
Coriolanus
Exit Humanity
Citizen Gangster
The Key Man
RED
The Color of Magic 2in1
On Expenses
As Good as Dead
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Brian Cox's Jute Journey
The Good Heart
Tell-Tale
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
Red
The Escapist
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 1
The Color of Magic - Die Reise des Zauberers Teil 2
Agent Crush
The Water Horse
The Secret of the Nutcracker
Trick 'r Treat
Battle for Terra
The Bourne Ultimatum
Zodiac
Shoot on Sight
Running with Scissors
The Outsiders
The Flying Scotsman
Carry On Ken
A Woman in Winter
The Ringer
Match Point
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Red Eye
Hitler in Colour
Blue/Orange
Japan's War in Colour- LILindsay Anderson: Lucky Man?
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
The Bourne Supremacy
Troy
Murder by Numbers
The Reckoning
The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men! Making X2
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
X2
Sin
25th Hour
Adaptation.- ALAleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World
The Ring
The Biographer
The Bourne Identity
Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
The Rookie
Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
Bug
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
The Affair of the Necklace
L.I.E.
Super Troopers
Inside 'Manhunter'
Strictly Sinatra
Saltwater
A Shot at Glory
Mad About Mambo
The Invention of Dr. Morel
The Making of 'Rushmore'
Longitude
Complicity- THThe History of the British Police Force
The Minus Man
For Love of the Game
The Corruptor
Rushmore
Poodle Springs
Battle of the Clans
Desperate Measures
Merchants of Venus
The Boxer
Food for Ravens
Sharpe: The Legend
Kiss the Girls
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Glimmer Man
Chain Reaction
Witness Against Hitler
Braveheart
Rob Roy
The Maltese Double Cross
The Negotiator
Grushko
Prince of Jutland
Iron Will
Sharpe's Eagle
Sharpe's Rifles
Six Characters in Search of An Author
The Cutter
Deceptions
Red Fox
The Lost Language of Cranes
Hidden Agenda
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Secret Weapon
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
The Blasphemers' Banquet
Murder on the Moon
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
Shoot for the Sun- RARat in the Skull
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
Home Cooking
Manhunter
The Cantor of St Thomas's
Florence Nightingale
Pope John Paul II
King Lear
A Cotswold Death
The Privilege
Dalhousie's Luck
In Celebration
The Changeling
Nicholas and Alexandra
The Year of the Sex Olympics- A A Knight in Tarnished Armour
The Planets
A Modern Magician- WIWittgenstein's Poker
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The Glove- OLOld Pals