- Films
- 90
- Avg rating
- 6.33
- Peak run
- 2002’02
- 7+ run
- 4 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Brian by the numbers
Average
6.33
74 rated films
Vote weighted
6.40
bigger films count more
Median
6.4
half are better
Consistency
±0.80
rating spread
Career
52y
1975 to 2026
Total votes
6.08M
across every film
Best
7.8
The Bourne Identity
Worst
4.7
The Anomaly
Newest first
Filmography
| 2026 |  Super Troopers 3 | Captain O'Hagan | 5.8 | 3,089 |
| 2025 |  The Parenting | Frank | 5.7 | 9,482 |
| 2025 |  Glenrothan | Sandy | · | 718 |
| 2025 | Raoul Wallenberg: Missing Inaction | Gustaf Wallenberg | · | 54 |
| 2024 |  The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm | 6.3 | 42,145 |
| 2024 |  That Christmas | Santa | 6.8 | 20,807 |
| 2024 | Little Wing | Jaan Vari | 6.2 | 1,049 |
| 2023 | Quasi | Narrator | 5.3 | 3,630 |
| 2022 | The Independent | Nicholas Booker | 5.8 | 2,382 |
| 2022 | Prisoner's Daughter | Max | 6.4 | 3,622 |
| 2022 | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher | 6.7 | 2,293 |
| 2021 | Lawrence: After Arabia | Epilogue | · | 672 |
| 2021 | Separation | Paul Rivers | 4.7 | 6,859 |
| 2020 | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles | 5.2 | 4,069 |
| 2020 | The Bay of Silence | Milton | 4.5 | 2,937 |
| 2019 | Strange But True | Bill | 5.9 | 6,830 |
| 2019 | Remember Me | Shane | · | 564 |
| 2019 | The Last Right | Father Reilly | 6.5 | 2,271 |
| 2018 |  Super Troopers 2 | Captain O'Hagan | 6.0 | 31,292 |
| 2018 | The Pretenders | Henry | · | 768 |
Better together?
Brian Cox's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Brian Cox
Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission. Ratings and votes as of the latest nightly refresh.