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Movie Release Date Character Age at Release
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim 12/11/24 Helm Hammerhand (voice) 78
Little Wing 03/13/24 Jaan Vari 77
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend 09/05/23 Narrator (voice) 77
Prisoner's Daughter 06/30/23 Max 77
Mending the Line 06/09/23 Ike Fletcher 77
Quasi 04/20/23 Narrator (voice) 76
An Interview with Brian Cox 04/11/23 Himself 76
Ooh the Banter! 12/31/22 Self (archive footage) 76
Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba 11/26/22 Self 76
Bonnie 11/12/22 Self 76
The Independent 11/02/22 Nick Booker 76
Ukraine: Answering the Call 07/03/22 Self 76
Ganz normale Männer - Der "vergessene Holocaust" 01/25/22 Self - Narrator (voice) 75
Separation 04/30/21 Rivers 74
Oleg: The Oleg Vidov Story 01/02/21 Narrator (voice) 74
The Bay of Silence 08/20/20 Milton 74
John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues 05/27/20 John Rebus 73
Lawrence After Arabia 05/19/20 Father (Voice) 73
Last Moment of Clarity 05/19/20 Gilles 73
The Last Right 12/06/19 Father Reilly 73
Strange but True 10/17/19 Bill 73
Pretenders 09/27/19 Henry 73
Remember Me 08/02/19 Shane 73
The Etruscan Smile 05/03/19 Rory MacNeil 72
Kubrick by Candlelight 11/23/18 The Narrator 72
Widdershins 06/27/18 voice 72
Super Troopers 2 04/19/18 John O'Hagen 71
An Evening with Brian Cox 07/26/17 Himself 71
Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie 05/27/17 Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) 70
Churchill 05/25/17 Winston Churchill 70
Vegalta: Soccer, Tsunami and the Hope of a Nation 02/18/17 Narrator 70
Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC 12/23/16 Self 70
The Autopsy of Jane Doe 12/21/16 Tommy Tilden 70
Morgan 09/01/16 Jim Bryce 70
The Carer 08/05/16 Sir Michael 70
Forsaken 09/16/15 James McCurdy 69
Pacific Warriors 09/10/15 Narrator 69
Pixels 07/16/15 Admiral Porter 69
Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace 07/01/15 Andrew Carnegie (voice) 69
The Gospel of John 12/01/14 Narrator (voice) – King James Version 68
Scotland In A Day 09/18/14 68
The Anomaly 06/19/14 Dr. Langham 68
Her 12/18/13 Alan Watts (voice) 67
An Adventure in Space and Time 11/21/13 Sydney Newman 67
La Malédiction d'Edgar 10/27/13 Edgar Hoover 67
Anna 10/13/13 Sebastian 67
Believe 10/04/13 Matt Busby 67
Blumenthal 08/03/13 Harold Blumenthal 67
RED 2 07/18/13 Ivan 67
Blood 10/09/12 Lenny Fairburn 66
The Campaign 08/09/12 Raymond 66
Wide Blue Yonder 05/25/12 Wally 65
I Missed My Mother's Funeral 01/01/12 Old Man 65
Exit Humanity 10/16/11 Malcolm Young (voice) 65
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster 09/10/11 Glover 65
Rise of the Planet of the Apes 08/03/11 John Landon 65
The Veteran 04/29/11 Gerry 64
Ironclad 03/03/11 Albany 64
The Key Man 02/18/11 Irving 64
Coriolanus 02/14/11 Menenius 64
RED 10/13/10 Ivan Simanov 64
On Expenses 02/23/10 63
As Good As Dead 01/25/10 Reverend Kalahan 63
Fantastic Mr. Fox 10/23/09 Action 12 Reporter (voice) 63
Brian Cox's Jute Journey 10/05/09 Self 63
The Good Heart 09/11/09 Jacques 63
Tell-Tale 04/24/09 Van Doren 62
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword 04/07/09 Green Dragon (voice) 62
Shoot on Sight 08/22/08 Daniel Tennant 62
Red 08/08/08 Avery Ludlow 62
The Escapist 06/20/08 Frank Perry 62
Agent Crush 01/01/08 Spanners (voice) 61
The Water Horse 12/25/07 Old Angus 61
The Secret of the Nutcracker 12/23/07 Drosselmeyer 61
Trick 'r Treat 12/09/07 Mr. Kreeg 61
Battle for Terra 09/06/07 General Hemmer (voice) 61
A Woman in Winter 04/09/07 Dr. Hunt 60
Zodiac 03/02/07 Melvin Belli 60
Running with Scissors 10/27/06 Dr. Finch 60
The Outsiders 10/03/06 Gabriel 60
The Flying Scotsman 08/16/06 Douglas Baxter 60
Carry on Ken 01/01/06 Self 59
The Ringer 12/23/05 Gary Barker 59
Match Point 10/26/05 Alec Hewett 59
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle 09/08/05 Joseph Bell 59
Red Eye 08/19/05 Joe Reisert 59
Hitler in Colour 04/30/05 Narrator 58
Blue/Orange 02/23/05 Dr. Robert Smith 58
Japan's War In Colour 01/17/05 Narrator 58
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 09/04/04 Other Voices (voice) 58
The Bourne Supremacy 07/23/04 Ward Abbott 58
Troy 05/13/04 King Agamemnon 57
Murder by Numbers 03/16/04 Self 57
The Reckoning 02/26/04 Tobias 57
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker 05/20/03 Self 56
X2 04/27/03 William Stryker 56
Sin 01/01/03 Captain Oakes 56
25th Hour 12/19/02 James Brogan 56
Adaptation. 12/06/02 Robert McKee 56
Aleister Crowley - The Wickedest Man in the World 11/19/02 Narrator 56
The Ring 10/18/02 Richard Morgan 56
The Trials of Henry Kissinger 09/29/02 56
The Biographer 09/01/02 Michael O'Mara 56
The Bourne Identity 06/14/02 Ward Abbott 56
The Rookie 03/25/02 Jim Morris Sr. 55
Bug 02/28/02 Cyr 55
Raszputyin - Ördög az emberben 02/12/02 Narrator 55
Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon 02/05/02 Narrator 55
The Affair of the Necklace 11/30/01 Minister Breteuil 55
L.I.E. 09/07/01 Big John Harrigan 55
Strictly Sinatra 06/29/01 Chisolm 55
Super Troopers 02/15/01 John O'Hagen 54
Inside 'Manhunter' 02/13/01 Himself 54
Saltwater 09/29/00 George Beneventi 54
Nuremberg 09/11/00 54
Complicity 05/06/00 Inspector McDunn 53
A Shot at Glory 05/03/00 Martin Smith 53
Mad About Mambo 04/04/00 Sidney McLoughlin 53
The Invention of Dr. Morel 03/16/00 Dr. Morel 53
Longitude 01/02/00 Lord Morton 53
For Love of the Game 09/17/99 Gary Wheeler 53
The Corruptor 03/12/99 Sean Wallace 52
The Minus Man 02/25/99 Doug 52
Rushmore 12/11/98 Dr. Nelson Guggenheim 52
Poodle Springs 07/25/98 Clayton Blackstone 52
Merchants of Venus 03/01/98 Uncle Vladimir 51
Desperate Measures 01/30/98 Captain Jeremiah Cassidy 51
The Boxer 12/31/97 Joe Hamill 51
Food for Ravens 11/11/97 Aneurin Bevan 51
Kiss the Girls 09/29/97 Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. 51
The Long Kiss Goodnight 10/11/96 Dr. Nathan Waldman 50
The Glimmer Man 10/04/96 Mr. Smith 50
Chain Reaction 08/02/96 Lyman Earl Collier 50
Witness Against Hitler 03/10/96 Judge Freisler 49
Braveheart 05/24/95 Argyle Wallace 48
Rob Roy 04/13/95 Killearn 48
The Maltese Double Cross 11/16/94 Narrator (voice) 48
The Negotiator 05/31/94 Charlie King 47
Grushko 03/24/94 Colonel Yevgeni Grushko 47
Prince of Jutland 02/23/94 Aethelwine 47
Iron Will 01/14/94 Angus McTeague 47
Sharpe's Eagle 05/12/93 Major Michael Hogan 46
Sharpe's Rifles 05/05/93 Major Michael Hogan 46
Six Characters in Search of An Author 12/12/92 The Director 46
The Cutter 08/10/92 46
The Lost Language of Cranes 02/09/92 Owen Benjamin 45
The Cloning of Joanna May 01/16/92 Carl May 45
Deceptions 01/01/92 Carlton Heard 45
Red Fox 12/08/91 Geoffrey Harrison 45
Hidden Agenda 11/21/90 Peter Kerrigan 44
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' 05/01/90 self 43
Secret Weapon 03/19/90 Andrew Neil 43
Brian Cox on Acting in Tragedy 12/07/89 Self 43
The Blasphemers' Banquet 07/31/89 Rev. Wallace (voice) 43
Murder on the Moon 05/09/89 Voronov 42
Regi Andrej Tarkovskij 09/23/88 Voiceover Narrator 42
Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun 05/15/88 Jack Purves 41
Shoot for the Sun 03/16/87 Dunny 40
Rat in the Skull 01/01/87 Detective Inspector Nelson 40
Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People 01/01/87 Narrator 40
Home Cooking 11/08/86 Vic 40
Manhunter 08/14/86 Dr. Hannibal Lecter 40
Florence Nightingale 07/05/85 Dr. McGregor 39
The Cantor of St Thomas's 04/07/85 Johann Sebastian Bach 38
Pope John Paul II 04/22/84 Father Góra 37
King Lear 04/03/83 Burgundy 36
A Cotswold Death 01/12/82 Dr. Gillespie 35
The Privilege 01/01/82 Young Laird 35
Clay, Smeddum and Greenden 02/24/76 George Simpson 29
In Celebration 03/17/75 Steven Shaw 28
The Changeling 01/20/74 Alsemero 27
Nicholas and Alexandra 11/29/71 Trotsky 25
The Year of the Sex Olympics 07/29/68 Lasar Opie 22
A Knight in Tarnished Armour 07/07/65 Nelson 19
A Modern Magician None The Voice 77
The Planets None 77
That Christmas None Santa (voice) 77
The Parenting None 77
The Electric State None 77
The Glove None 77