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Acting

Brian Cox

Career: Active from 1967 to 2026, busiest in 2002 with 10 main titles.

Leading roles: 109
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
91/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 151 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Brian Cox Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Coming of Age
2.5, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 16
Moral Ambiguity 11
Political Intrigue 10
Psychological Thriller 10
Character Study 7
Historical Drama 7
Coming-of-Age 6
Redemption 6
Gritty Realism 6
Psychological Drama 5
Underdog Story 5
Conspiracy 5

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

249

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

4 titles

as Jimmy

Super Troopers 4

as Captain O'Hagan

Wittgenstein's Poker

as Bertrand Russell (voice)

A Modern Magician

as The Voice

2020s

30 titles · average score 51

Glenrothan

34

as Sandy

The Parenting

54

as Frank

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

56

as Helm Hammerhand (voice)

That Christmas

65

as Santa (voice)

Unsinkable

TV show · as Robert Dodds

007: Road to a Million

57

TV show · as The Controller

Quasi

48

as Narrator (voice)

Mending the Line

60

as Ike Fletcher

Prisoner's Daughter

53

as Max

The Independent

44

as Nick Booker

Separation

26

as Rivers

The Bay of Silence

47

as Milton

2010s

58 titles · average score 62

Succession

88

TV show · as Logan Roy

The Etruscan Smile

64

as Rory MacNeil

Churchill

53

as Winston Churchill

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

71

as Tommy Tilden

The Slap

58

TV show · as Manolis

Pixels

37

as Admiral Porter

Anna

48

as Sebastian

Bob Servant

69

TV show · as Bob Servant

The Straits

66

TV show · as Harry Montebello

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

78

as John Landon

The Veteran

56

as Gerry

Exit Humanity

47

as Malcolm Young (voice)

2000s

66 titles · average score 65

Red

64

as Avery Ludlow

Trick 'r Treat

76

as Mr. Kreeg

Battle for Terra

54

as General Hemmer (voice)

Running with Scissors

51

as Dr. Finch

Red Eye

70

as Joe Reisert

The Ringer

51

as Gary Barker

The Bourne Supremacy

77

as Ward Abbott

Troy

63

as Agamemnon

The Bourne Identity

78

as Ward Abbott

The Ring

64

as Richard Morgan

L.I.E.

75

as Big John Harrigan

Nuremberg

73

TV show · as Herman Wilhelm Goering

1990s

41 titles · average score 65

The Minus Man

56

as Doug

Desperate Measures

36

as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy

Rushmore

84

as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim

The Boxer

74

as Joe Hamill

The Long Kiss Goodnight

61

as Dr. Nathan Waldman

Chain Reaction

40

as Lyman Earl Collier

Iron Will

65

as Angus McTeague

Sharpe's Rifles

75

as Major Michael Hogan

Sharpe

81

TV show · as Major Hogan

Sharpe's Eagle

77

as Major Michael Hogan

The Cloning of Joanna May

TV show · as Carl May

Hidden Agenda

69

as Peter Kerrigan

1980s

26 titles · average score 70

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Kostas Becker (voice)

Murder on the Moon

41

as Voronov

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

76

as Voiceover Narrator

Red Dwarf

83

TV show · as The King

Rat in the Skull

as Detective Inspector Nelson

Shoot for the Sun

as Dunny

Inspector Morse

80

TV show · as Michael Steppings

The Cantor of St Thomas's

as Johann Sebastian Bach

Pope John Paul II

71

as Father Góra

King Lear

68

as Burgundy

The Privilege

as Young Laird

Therese Raquin

62

TV show · as Laurent LeClaire

1970s

16 titles · average score 69

Minder

75

TV show · as Frank

Out

77

TV show · as McGrath

Target

TV show · as Billy Voss

In Celebration

65

as Steven Shaw

The Master of Ballantrae

TV show · as Henry Durie

The Changeling

as Alsemero

Playhouse

TV show · as Dalhousie

Churchill's People

TV show · as William Wallace

Van der Valk

66

TV show · as Stefan Szabo

Nicholas and Alexandra

58

as Trotsky

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Dr. Gillespie

Manhunt

70

TV show · as Anton

1960s

8 titles · average score 60

The Year of the Sex Olympics

60

as Lasar Opie

TV show · as Mickey

ITV Playhouse

TV show · as Apeman

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Alsemero

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Rod / Josef Stalin

A Knight in Tarnished Armour

as Nelson

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Nelson

Theatre 625

TV show · as Lasar Opie