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Brian Cox

Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
Helen Mirren at the BBCHelen 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 CelebrationAmerican 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)Hammer House of Horror (TV Series) (1980) Recommended
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…
ManhunterManhunter (1986) Recommended
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 AgendaHidden 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)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 JutlandPrince 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…
ComplicityComplicity (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, TheMinus 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…
LongitudeLongitude (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, AShot 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…
NurembergNuremberg (2000)
Feat. Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox
This two part miniseries follows the Chief Prosecutor through the Nuremberg Trials of 1945–46.
Strictly SinatraStrictly 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.L.I.E. (2001) Recommended
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, TheBourne 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, TheRing, The (2002) Recommended
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 2X-Men 2 (2002) Recommended
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 TroopersSuper 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, TheRookie, 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, TheReckoning, 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…
TroyTroy (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, TheBourne 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 EyeRed Eye (2005) Recommended
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 PointMatch Point (2005) Aro Favourite
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, TheRinger, 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, TheHistory 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 ScissorsRunning 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, TheFlying 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…
ZodiacZodiac (2007) Recommended
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 DeepWater Horse, The: Legend of the Deep (2007) Recommended
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…

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