1946-06-01 Dundee, Scotland, UK
Brian Denis Cox CBE (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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Cox (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Parenting | Frank | 2025-03-12 |
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The Electric State | Popfly (voice) | 2025-03-07 |
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Skelly | Grandpa | 2024-05-07 |
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That Christmas | Santa (voice) | 2024-11-27 |
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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) | 2024-12-05 |
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Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 2024-03-13 |
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Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 2023-06-30 |
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An Interview with Brian Cox | Himself | 2023-04-11 |
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Quasi | Narrator (voice) | 2023-04-20 |
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Bill Douglas: My Best Friend | Narrator (voice) | 2023-09-05 |
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Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 2023-06-09 |
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Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba | Self | 2022-11-26 |
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Ukraine: Answering the Call | Self | 2022-07-03 |
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Ooh the Banter! | Self | 2022-12-31 |
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The Independent | Nick Booker | 2022-11-02 |
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Bonnie | Self | 2022-11-12 |
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Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-04-23 |
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Separation | Rivers | 2021-04-30 |
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The Bay of Silence | Milton | 2020-08-20 |
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Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) | 2020-05-19 |
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John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus | 2020-05-27 |
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Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 2020-05-19 |
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Remember Me | Shane | 2019-08-02 |
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The Last Right | Father Reilly | 2019-12-06 |
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Strange but True | Bill | 2019-10-17 |
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Pretenders | Henry | 2019-09-27 |
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Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen | 2018-04-19 |
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Kubrick by Candlelight | The Narrator | 2018-11-23 |
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Widdershins | voice | 2018-06-27 |
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The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil | 2018-04-12 |
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Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation | Narrator | 2017-02-18 |
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Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) | 2017-05-27 |
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Churchill | Winston Churchill | 2017-05-25 |
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An Evening with Brian Cox | Himself | 2017-07-26 |
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Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC | Self | 2016-12-23 |
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden | 2016-12-21 |
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Morgan | Jim Bryce | 2016-09-01 |
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The Carer | Sir Michael | 2016-08-05 |
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Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light | Self | 2016-06-13 |
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Pixels | Admiral Porter | 2015-07-16 |
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Pacific Warriors | Narrator | 2015-09-10 |
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Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) | 2015-07-01 |
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Forsaken | James McCurdy | 2015-09-16 |
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The Anomaly | Dr. Langham | 2014-06-19 |
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The Gospel of John | Narrator (voice) – King James Version | 2014-12-01 |
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Scotland In A Day | 2014-09-18 | |
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La Malédiction d'Edgar | Edgar Hoover | 2013-10-27 |
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Her | Alan Watts (voice) | 2013-12-18 |
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Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal | 2013-08-03 |
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RED 2 | Ivan | 2013-07-18 |
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An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman | 2013-11-21 |
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Believe | Matt Busby | 2013-10-04 |
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Anna | Sebastian | 2013-10-13 |
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The Campaign | Raymond | 2012-08-09 |
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I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man | 2012-01-01 |
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Blood | Lenny Fairburn | 2012-10-09 |
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Wide Blue Yonder | Wally | 2012-05-25 |
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The Key Man | Irving | 2011-02-18 |
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Coriolanus | Menenius | 2011-02-14 |
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon | 2011-08-03 |
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Ironclad | Albany | 2011-03-03 |
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The Veteran | Gerry | 2011-04-29 |
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Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover | 2011-09-10 |
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Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) | 2011-10-16 |
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On Expenses | 2010-02-23 | |
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RED | Ivan Simanov | 2010-10-13 |
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As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan | 2010-01-25 |
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Tell-Tale | Van Doren | 2009-04-24 |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) | 2009-04-07 |
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The Good Heart | Jacques | 2009-09-11 |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) | 2009-10-14 |
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Brian Cox's Jute Journey | Self | 2009-10-05 |
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Red | Avery Ludlow | 2008-08-08 |
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The Escapist | Frank Perry | 2008-06-20 |
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Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) | 2008-01-01 |
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A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt | 2007-04-09 |
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Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg | 2007-12-09 |
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Zodiac | Melvin Belli | 2007-03-02 |
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Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant | 2007-12-15 |
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The Bourne Ultimatum | Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2007-08-03 |
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The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer | 2007-12-23 |
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The Water Horse | Old Angus | 2007-12-25 |
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Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) | 2007-09-06 |
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Carry on Ken | Self | 2006-01-01 |
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Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch | 2006-10-27 |
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The Outsiders | Gabriel | 2006-10-03 |
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The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter | 2006-08-16 |
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The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell | 2005-09-08 |
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Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith | 2005-02-23 |
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Match Point | Alec Hewett | 2005-10-26 |
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The Ringer | Gary Barker | 2005-12-23 |
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Red Eye | Joe Reisert | 2005-08-10 |
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Japan's War In Colour | Narrator | 2005-01-17 |
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Hitler in Colour | Narrator | 2005-04-30 |
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Troy | King Agamemnon | 2004-05-13 |
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) | 2004-09-04 |
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Murder by Numbers | Self | 2004-03-16 |
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The Reckoning | Tobias | 2004-02-26 |
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The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott | 2004-07-23 |
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X2 | William Stryker | 2003-04-27 |
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The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | 2003-11-25 | |
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Sin | Captain Oakes | 2003-01-01 |
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The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | Self | 2003-05-20 |
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Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh | Narrator | 2002-02-12 |
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Adaptation. | Robert McKee | 2002-12-06 |
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The Biographer | Michael O'Mara | 2002-09-01 |
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The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott | 2002-06-14 |
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger | 2002-09-29 | |
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Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World | Narrator | 2002-11-19 |
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Bug | Cyr | 2002-02-28 |
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Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch | Narrator | 2002-04-01 |
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The Ring | Richard Morgan | 2002-10-18 |
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The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. | 2002-03-25 |
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25th Hour | James Brogan | 2002-12-19 |
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Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon | Narrator | 2002-02-05 |
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Super Troopers | John O'Hagen | 2001-02-15 |
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Inside 'Manhunter' | Himself | 2001-02-13 |
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L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan | 2001-09-07 |
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The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil | 2001-11-30 |
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Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm | 2001-06-29 |
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A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith | 2000-05-03 |
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Complicity | Inspector McDunn | 2000-05-06 |
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The Making of 'Rushmore' | Self | 2000-01-25 |
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Saltwater | George Beneventi | 2000-09-29 |
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Longitude | Lord Morton | 2000-01-02 |
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Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin | 2000-04-04 |
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The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel | 2000-03-16 |
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The Minus Man | Doug | 1999-02-25 |
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The Corruptor | Sean Wallace | 1999-03-12 |
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For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler | 1999-09-17 |
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Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone | 1998-07-25 |
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Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim | 1998-12-11 |
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Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir | 1998-03-01 |
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Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy | 1998-01-30 |
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Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan | 1997-11-11 |
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The Boxer | Joe Hamill | 1997-12-31 |
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Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham PD | 1997-09-29 |
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Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan | 1997-10-13 |
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Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier | 1996-08-02 |
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The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith | 1996-10-04 |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman | 1996-10-11 |
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Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler | 1996-03-10 |
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Rob Roy | Killearn | 1995-04-13 |
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Braveheart | Argyle Wallace | 1995-05-24 |
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Iron Will | Angus McTeague | 1994-01-14 |
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Prince of Jutland | Aethelwine | 1994-02-23 |
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The Maltese Double Cross | Narrator (voice) | 1994-11-16 |
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The Negotiator | Charlie King | 1994-05-31 |
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Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko | 1994-03-24 |
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Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-12 |
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Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan | 1993-05-05 |
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Deceptions | Carlton Heard | 1992-01-01 |
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The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May | 1992-01-16 |
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The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin | 1992-02-09 |
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Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director | 1992-12-12 |
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The Cutter | 1992-08-10 | |
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Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison | 1991-12-08 |
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The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' | self | 1990-05-01 |
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Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil | 1990-03-19 |
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Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan | 1990-11-21 |
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Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy | Self | 1989-12-07 |
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The Blasphemers' Banquet | Rev. Wallace (voice) | 1989-07-31 |
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Murder on the Moon | Voronov | 1989-05-09 |
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Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves | 1988-05-15 |
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Regi Andrej Tarkovskij | Voiceover Narrator | 1988-09-23 |
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Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People | Narrator | 1987-01-01 |
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Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson | 1987-01-01 |
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Shoot for the Sun | Dunny | 1987-03-16 |
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Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor | 1986-08-14 |
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Home Cooking | Vic | 1986-11-08 |
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Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor | 1985-04-07 |
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The Cantor of St Thomas's | Johann Sebastian Bach | 1985-04-07 |
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Pope John Paul II | Father Góra | 1984-04-22 |
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King Lear | Burgundy | 1983-04-03 |
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The Privilege | Young Laird | 1982-01-01 |
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A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie | 1982-01-12 |
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Dalhousie's Luck | Dalhousie | 1980-08-03 |
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Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | George Simpson | 1976-02-24 |
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In Celebration | Steven Shaw | 1975-03-17 |
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The Changeling | Alsemero | 1974-01-20 |
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Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky | 1971-11-29 |
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The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie | 1968-07-29 |
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A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson | 1965-07-07 |
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Old Pals | Jimmy | |
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Glenrothan | Sandy | |
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A Modern Magician | The Voice | |
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Killing Thyme | Norman | |
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The Glove | ||
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The Planets | ||
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Wittgenstein's Poker | Bertrand Russell (voice) |
