Biography
Brian Denis Cox CBE 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. H...
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Complete Filmography

Seven Jewish Children
2025
Executive Producer
Based on the play by Caryl Churchill, this film shows the Jewish journey from Russia in 1903 to Palestine in 2009. It humanizes and visualizes the pro...

The Parenting
2025
as Frank
Boyfriends Josh and Rohan plan a weekend getaway to introduce their parents, only to discover that their rental is home to a 400-year-old poltergeist.

The Electric State
2025
as Popfly (voice)
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024
as Helm Hammerhand (voice)
A sudden attack by Wulf, a clever and traitorous lord of Rohan seeking vengeance for the death of his father, forces Helm Hammerhand, the King of Roha...

That Christmas
2024
as Santa (voice)
It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's...

Skelly
2024
as Grandpa
After the death of his grandfather, a boy's father dealing with grief sends him on a journey to understand death, while putting together the annual ha...

Little Wing
2024
as Jaan Vari
For 13-year-old Kaitlyn, her world threatens to collapse when she learns that her parents want to get a divorce, especially because it threatens the l...

Little Wing
2024
Executive Producer
For 13-year-old Kaitlyn, her world threatens to collapse when she learns that her parents want to get a divorce, especially because it threatens the l...

Bill Douglas: My Best Friend
2023
as Narrator (voice)
The story of the extraordinary friendship between Scottish film maker Bill Douglas and his lifelong companion and collaborator Peter Jewell. Bill Doug...

Prisoner's Daughter
2023
as Max
Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s a...

Mending the Line
2023
as Ike Fletcher
A Marine wounded in Afghanistan returns to a VA hospital in Montana where he meets a Vietnam vet who teaches him fly fishing as a means to coming to t...

Quasi
2023
as Narrator (voice)
A hapless hunchback who only yearns for love, finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France when each orders...

An Interview with Brian Cox
2023
as Himself
Award-winning actor Brian Cox (Succession, King Lear) sits down for an exclusive, in-depth interview on his life and career.

Ooh the Banter!
2022
as Self
Jack Docherty brings together a jam-packed cast of comedians, actors and famous faces for a riotous celebration of Scotland's most valuable export – i...

Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba
2022
as Self
Reflecting Peter O'Toole's theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O'Toole that enc...

Bonnie
2022
as Self
A portrait of casting director Bonnie Timmermann.

The Independent
2022
as Nick Booker
It's the final weeks of the most consequential presidential election in history. America is poised to elect either its first female president or its f...

Ukraine: Answering the Call
2022
as Self
In this one-hour primetime special in support of Ukraine, the world's biggest celebrities, musicians, thought leaders and more rise up to drive awaren...

Separation
2021
as Rivers
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.

Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story
2021
as Narrator (voice)
Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West ...

The Bay of Silence
2020
as Milton
Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to anoth...

John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
2020
as John Rebus
Imprisoned at home, his only distant link to the outside world coming through infrequent visits from his long-standing colleague Siobhan, an ageing In...

Last Moment of Clarity
2020
as Gilles
After his girlfriend Georgia is murdered by European mobsters, Sam flees to Paris to hide out. Years later, he sees a woman in a Hollywood film who he...

Lawrence After Arabia
2020
as Father (Voice)
This film is the story of the last years of the life of T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia - a scholar, writer, soldier and reluctant hero. Retiring...

The Last Right
2019
as Father Reilly
Daniel Murphy is lumbered with a corpse that has the same last name as his, who dies on his flight from Boston to County Cork. Travelling back to Irel...

Strange But True
2019
as Bill
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.

Pretenders
2019
as Henry
A love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.

Remember Me
2019
as Shane
After discovering his old flame now has Alzheimer's, a hopelessly in love widower fakes his way into her senior living community in an effort to reuni...

Kubrick by Candlelight
2018
as The Narrator
In 1973 Stanley Kubrick came to Ireland - and brought the British Army with him. A romantic comedy set behind the scenes of Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (19...

Widdershins
2018
as voice
A pampered gentleman's seamlessly automated life is thrown into chaos when he pursues a free-spirited woman, against the advice of his robot butler.

Super Troopers 2
2018
as John O'Hagen
When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to s...

The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Rory MacNeil
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. ...
An Evening with Brian Cox
2017
as Himself
Cerimon House, a humanities and cultural arts organization in the heart of the Alberta Arts District, is honored to welcome the two time Olivier Award...

Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie
2017
as Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice)
Bob's team just got BIGGER with the most mega build EVER! Meet new team members Thud, Crunch, and former TV star Ace. They help Scoop, Muck, and Lofty...

Churchill
2017
as Winston Churchill
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation
2017
as Narrator
Faced by the 2011 earthquake, the fanatical supporters of J-League underdogs Vegalta Sendai challenged their team to win in the name of their fallen f...

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC
2016
as Self
The former principal ballerina tells her story, with historic performances from the BBC archives and candid interviews from throughout her career. Sho...

The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
as Tommy Tilden
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they disc...

Morgan
2016
as Jim Bryce
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment...

The Carer
2016
as Sir Michael
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an inc...

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

Forsaken
2015
as James McCurdy
John Henry returns to his hometown in hopes of repairing his relationship with his estranged father, but a local gang is terrorizing the town. John He...

Pacific Warriors
2015
as Narrator
An insight into the origins and stories of Pacific Island rugby teams such as Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. This documentary explores the backgrounds of a wi...

Pixels
2015
as Admiral Porter
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace
2015
as Andrew Carnegie (voice)
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace charts the story of a poor Scottish immigrant who sailed to America in the 1840s, and by the end of th...

The Gospel of John
2014
as Narrator (voice) – King James Version
John’s gospel is depicted, complete with Aramaic narration, highlighting Christ’s life including birth, baptism, first miracle, healing the blind man,...
Scotland In A Day
2014
Mockumentary set on the day of the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and designed to capture a snap shot of a nation on the brink of both triumph ...

The Anomaly
2014
as Dr. Langham
A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got ther...

Her
2013
as Alan Watts (voice)
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theod...

An Adventure in Space and Time
2013
as Sydney Newman
Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles while wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ...

The Curse of Edgar
2013
as Edgar Hoover
Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light o...

Anna
2013
as Sebastian
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a socio...

Believe
2013
as Matt Busby
A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who co...
Blumenthal
2013
as Harold Blumenthal
A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career parodying his family in his work and died laughing...

RED 2
2013
as Ivan
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

Blood
2012
as Lenny Fairburn
When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main su...

The Campaign
2012
as Raymond
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Represen...

Wide Blue Yonder
2012
as Wally
An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
I Missed My Mother's Funeral
2012
as Old Man
Brian Cox and Brendan Cowell star as father and son sharing a final tender moment. A gentle and understated film.

Exit Humanity
2011
as Malcolm Young (voice)
A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Ada...

Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster
2011
as Glover
Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provid...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
as John Landon
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primat...

The Veteran
2011
as Gerry
Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society. Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover...

Ironclad
2011
as Albany
In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that u...

The Key Man
2011
as Irving
An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.

Coriolanus
2011
as Menenius
Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious...

RED
2010
as Ivan Simanov
After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunite...

On Expenses
2010
Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.

As Good As Dead
2010
as Reverend Kalahan
Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing c...

Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009
as Action 12 Reporter (voice)
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with t...

Brian Cox's Jute Journey
2009
as Self
Hollywood actor Brian Cox is a son of Dundee. The city is the big constant of his life. He grew up amid the clatter of the jute mills, where both his ...

The Good Heart
2009
as Jacques
Jacques is the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determ...

Tell-Tale
2009
as Van Doren
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.

Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
2009
as Green Dragon (voice)
The Mystery Inc. gang takes a trip to Japan and finds themselves circling Asia and the Pacific in a treasure hunt, racing against the vengeful Black S...

Red
2008
as Avery Ludlow
Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, ...

Red
2008
Associate Producer
Avery, a reclusive older man, has a best friend in his dog, Red. When three teens kill Red without reason, Avery sets out for justice and redemption, ...

The Escapist
2008
as Frank Perry
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined ...

The Escapist
2008
Executive Producer
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined ...

Agent Crush
2008
as Spanners (voice)
To fight crime, a new hero is created but there are a few small glitches to iron out.

The Water Horse
2007
as Old Angus
A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

The Secret of the Nutcracker
2007
as Drosselmeyer
In this innovative version of the world famous Christmas story, The Secret of the Nutcracker tells of 12 year-old Clara's magical journey on Christmas...

Shoot on Sight
2007
as Daniel Tennant
Tariq Ali, a Muslim police officer of Scotland Yard, is asked to hunt-down suspected suicide-bombers against the backdrop of July 7 bombings in London...

Trick 'r Treat
2007
as Mr. Kreeg
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have j...

Battle for Terra
2007
as General Hemmer (voice)
A peaceful alien planet faces annihilation, as the homeless remainder of the human race sets its eyes on Terra. Mala, a rebellious Terrian teenager, w...

The Bourne Ultimatum
2007
as Ward Abbott (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a...

A Woman in Winter
2007
as Dr. Hunt
An astronomer enters into a destructive affair with a photographer.

Zodiac
2007
as Melvin Belli
The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

Running with Scissors
2006
as Dr. Finch
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed...
The Outsiders
2006
as Gabriel
The mysterious Nathan Hyde is lured out of hiding by the glamorous Erica, a reluctant employee of a global organisation known as The Establishment. Hy...

The Flying Scotsman
2006
as Douglas Baxter
Based on the incredible true story of amateur cyclist Graeme Obree, who breaks the world one-hour record on a bike he made out of washing machine part...

Carry On Ken
2006
as Self
A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing acto...

The Ringer
2005
as Gary Barker
Pressured by a greedy uncle and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. ...

Match Point
2005
as Alec Hewett
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris. ...

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
2005
as Joseph Bell
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets t...

Red Eye
2005
as Joe Reisert
An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassinatio...

Hitler in Colour
2005
as Narrator
Documentary using only original colour footage charts the 12 years from Adolf Hitler's rise to power to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Complemented by ey...

Blue/Orange
2005
as Dr. Robert Smith
In a psychiatric hospital, a junior doctor is treating a young black man diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The patient is having a final...

Japan's War In Colour
2005
as Narrator
Using never-before-seen footage, Japan's War In Colour tells a previously untold story. It recounts the history of the Second World War from a Japanes...

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
as Other Voices (voice)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

The Bourne Supremacy
2004
as Ward Abbott
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and M...

Troy
2004
as King Agamemnon
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...
Murder by Numbers
2004
as Self
A documentary on serial killer films.

The Reckoning
2004
as Tobias
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...

The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2
2003
The making of the sequel to the first X-Men film, trying to make it bigger and better than the previous film, and the challenges that come with that g...

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003
as Self
Spike Lee's filmmaking career is examined in this partial making-of for the film 25th Hour (2002). Interviews with cast members from this film and his...

X2
2003
as William Stryker
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm...

Sin
2003
as Captain Oakes
Retired cop Eddie Burns gave 15 years and the use of his left arm to the Reno homicide squad. When his wayward sister, Kassie, goes missing Eddie Burn...

25th Hour
2002
as James Brogan
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and hi...

Adaptation.
2002
as Robert McKee
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting amb...
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World
2002
as Narrator
Masters of Darkness: Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World

The Ring
2002
as Richard Morgan
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will...

The Trials of Henry Kissinger
2002
This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and...

The Biographer
2002
as Michael O'Mara
Dramatisation of the events leading to Andrew Morton writing his biography of Princess Diana.

The Bourne Identity
2002
as Ward Abbott
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank accoun...

Loch Lomond: Legend of the Loch
2002
as Narrator
An 18th century couple separated by war gets a second chance at love when a present day singer becomes mixed up in their story.

The Rookie
2002
as Jim Morris Sr.
Jim Morris never made it out of the minor leagues before a shoulder injury ended his pitching career twelve years ago. Now a married-with-children hig...

Bug
2002
as Cyr
A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bende...

Rasputin: The Devil in the Flesh
2002
as Narrator
The life and death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin.

Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon
2002
as Narrator
A docu-drama that reports on a (fictitious) attack made by terrorist using the disease of small pox to attack the world. Starting in New York the atta...

The Affair of the Necklace
2001
as Minister Breteuil
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grac...

L.I.E.
2001
as Big John Harrigan
With his mother dead and his father busy at work, Howie feels adrift in his New York suburb. He and his friend Gary spend their time burglarizing thei...

Strictly Sinatra
2001
as Chisolm
In Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, age 28, aspires to be a lounge singer; his repertoire is strictly Sinatra, backed by Bill, an aging piano player and his onl...

Super Troopers
2001
as John O'Hagen
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling...

Inside 'Manhunter'
2001
as Himself
A DVD Special Feature documentary on the experience of turning the chilling novel "Red Dragon" into a motion picture, all told through the actors and ...

Saltwater
2000
as George Beneventi
An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries to help, ...

Complicity
2000
as Inspector McDunn
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some m...

A Shot at Glory
2000
as Martin Smith
The irascible manager of a lower-division Scottish football side must contend with problems off and on the field when his team's impatient American ow...

Mad About Mambo
2000
as Sidney McLoughlin
High school student tries to improve soccer skills by practicing dance and falls for his dance partner.

The Invention of Dr. Morel
2000
as Dr. Morel
About Dr. Morel who invents a machine to duplicate the woman he loved, Faustina, in virtual reality. A tale dealing with the impossibility of ever kno...

The Making of 'Rushmore'
2000
as Self
An exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary by Eric Chase Anderson.

Longitude
2000
as Lord Morton
Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

For Love of the Game
1999
as Gary Wheeler
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and...

The Corruptor
1999
as Sean Wallace
Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Ni...

The Minus Man
1999
as Doug
When the quiet and amiable Vann Siegert drifts into town, no one suspects the evil that lies beneath the surface. Despite his easy charm, Vann is mere...

Rushmore
1998
as Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls i...

Poodle Springs
1998
as Clayton Blackstone
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.

Merchants of Venus
1998
as Uncle Vladimir
A Russian immigrant finds himself in bed with the mob after buying a sexual novelties shop.

Desperate Measures
1998
as Captain Jeremiah Cassidy
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch th...

The Boxer
1997
as Joe Hamill
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlf...

Food for Ravens
1997
as Aneurin Bevan
A biopic by the dramatist Trevor Griffiths of Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, the British Labour politician who founded the country's National Health Service in ...

Sharpe: The Legend
1997
as Hogan
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer ...

Kiss the Girls
1997
as Chief Hatfield, Durham PD
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight
1996
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and...

The Glimmer Man
1996
as Mr. Smith
A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in t...

Chain Reaction
1996
as Lyman Earl Collier
At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of ...

Witness Against Hitler
1996
as Judge Freisler
The true story of a Prussian aristocrat working for German military intelligence during World War II, who, with a group of fellow devout Christians, p...

Braveheart
1995
as Argyle Wallace
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...

Rob Roy
1995
as Killearn
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy ...

The Maltese Double Cross
1994
as Narrator (voice)
The documentary disputes the conclusion reached by the official investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, instead advancing the theory that...

The Negotiator
1994
as Charlie King
A serious heart condition puts an end to Charlie King's job as a "street copper", but he refuses the offer of a desk job and a promotion. When a secre...

Grushko
1994
as Colonel Yevgeni Grushko
A restaurant is fire-bombed, a TV journalist and a member of a local mafia are murdered, and a valuable statuette is stolen. Yevgeni Grushko is Head o...

Prince of Jutland
1994
as Aethelwine
A Danish prince seeks revenge upon the villain who killed the king and his son to usurp the throne.

Iron Will
1994
as Angus McTeague
When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross...

Sharpe's Eagle
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the Sou...

Sharpe's Rifles
1993
as Major Michael Hogan
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and i...

Six Characters in Search of An Author
1992
as The Director
Adaptation of Pirandello's play.

The Cutter
1992
'The Cutter' is a master of his craft – gangland killings using a cut-throat razor. When his son disturbs him in his work and announces that he wants ...

The Lost Language of Cranes
1992
as Owen Benjamin
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings a...

The Cloning of Joanna May
1992
as Carl May
Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught...

Deceptions
1992
as Carlton Heard
A beautiful widow is determined to uncover the facts behind her husband's death.

Red Fox
1991
as Geoffrey Harrison
“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a screenplay b...

Hidden Agenda
1990
as Peter Kerrigan
In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government...

The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
as self
Documentary looking at the making-of and real-life stories behind the award-winning conspiracy thriller starring Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and Br...

Secret Weapon
1990
as Andrew Neil
Fact-based story of an Israeli government agent assigned to use her beauty as well as intelligence to snag a man on the run with atomic secrets.

Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy
1989
as Self
Brian Cox leads a group of young actors in a workshop exploring techniques in performing Shakesperean tragedy, using Macbeth and Titus Andronicus as e...

The Blasphemers' Banquet
1989
as Rev. Wallace (voice)
A film-poem written in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses

Murder on the Moon
1989
as Voronov
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and So...

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
1988
as Voiceover Narrator
This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but...

Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun
1988
as Jack Purves
The singular life of Beryl Markham - renowned aviatrix, author and adventurer

Shoot for the Sun
1987
as Dunny
Set in the bleak backdrop of Edinburgh a low level drug dealer strives for making a living and surviving the natural elements of such an environment d...
Rat in the Skull
1987
as Detective Inspector Nelson
In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questioning. To help them in the interrogation, the Lond...

Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People
1987
as Narrator
A drama documentary on the life and work of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci. Produced for Channel 4 in 1987, it was directed by the Scottish filmmak...

Home Cooking
1986
as Vic
The abused neglected wife of a loutish hotelier begins to suspect that her husband is the serial rapist that has been terrorizing the area.

Manhunter
1986
as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a ne...

Florence Nightingale
1985
as Dr. McGregor
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession ...
The Cantor of St Thomas's
1985
as Johann Sebastian Bach
The life of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

Pope John Paul II
1984
as Father Góra
Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 197...

King Lear
1983
as Burgundy
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

A Cotswold Death
1982
as Dr. Gillespie
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect English murder. A natural case for the Yard's bes...

The Privilege
1982
as Young Laird
A BAFTA award winning drama set in Orkney in the 19th century, depicting a wedding among the strong, hardworking, tenant farmers.

Dalhousie's Luck
1980
as Dalhousie
Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On w...

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden
1976
as George Simpson
Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Sm...

In Celebration
1975
as Steven Shaw
In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but d...

The Changeling
1974
as Alsemero
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Fil...

Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
as Trotsky
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968
as Lasar Opie
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the f...
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
1965
as Nelson
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.

A Modern Magician
N/A
as The Voice
Not all great minds think alike... A Modern Magician is a supernatural black comedy that follows Jim; an odd young man with unusual pastimes as he me...

The Glove
N/A
Vic & Bob are on a road trip across England as they search for an elusive piece of celebrity memorabilia - Michael Jackson's "training" glove.

The Planets
N/A
Wittgenstein's Poker
N/A
as Bertrand Russell (voice)
On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Ludwig Wittgenstei...
Glenrothan
N/A
as Sandy
After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Don...

Killing Thyme
N/A
as Norman
Eight-year-old Sam is desperate for an allotment. When he meets Norman, a curmudgeonly old man with a neglected allotment and a death wish, Sam thinks...
Old Pals
N/A
as Jimmy
Comical opposites and recent widowers, Ira and Jimmy, are forced to become friends by their conspiring daughters. Their initial stubbornness gives way...
Macbeth
N/A
as Macbeth
Encouraged by a prophecy and his scheming wife, Macbeth sets out to be King of Scotland, but soon realizes the lengths he must go to keep his power in...
Glenrothan
N/A
Director, Producer
After 35 years in Chicago, Donal reluctantly returns to the Scottish Highlands to make amends with his estranged older brother, Sandy. Sandy needs Don...