Brian Denis Cox CBE (born 1 June 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.
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The Parenting | ||
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A Modern Magician | The Voice | |
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The Glove | ||
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The Planets | ||
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Wittgenstein's Poker | Bertrand Russell (voice) | |
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Glenrothan | Sandy | |
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2025-03-13 | The Electric State | Popfly (voice) |
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2024-12-05 | The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Helm Hammerhand (voice) |
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2024-11-27 | That Christmas | Santa (voice) |
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2024-05-07 | Skelly | Grandpa |
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2024-03-13 | Little Wing | Jaan Vari |
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2023-06-30 | Prisoner's Daughter | Max |
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2023-06-09 | Mending the Line | Ike Fletcher |
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2022-11-02 | The Independent | Nick Booker |
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2021-04-30 | Separation | Rivers |
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2020-08-20 | The Bay of Silence | Milton |
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2020-05-27 | John Rebus: The Lockdown Blues | John Rebus |
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2020-05-19 | Last Moment of Clarity | Gilles |
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2020-05-19 | Lawrence After Arabia | Father (Voice) |
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2019-12-06 | The Last Right | Father Reilly |
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2019-10-17 | Strange but True | Bill |
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2019-09-27 | Pretenders | Henry |
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2019-08-02 | Remember Me | Shane |
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2018-06-27 | Widdershins | voice |
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2018-04-19 | Super Troopers 2 | John O'Hagen |
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2018-04-12 | The Etruscan Smile | Rory MacNeil |
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2017-05-27 | Bob the Builder: Mega Machines - The Movie | Conrad (UK & US) / Crunch (UK & US) (voice) |
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2017-05-25 | Churchill | Winston Churchill |
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2016-12-21 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe | Tommy Tilden |
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2016-09-01 | Morgan | Jim Bryce |
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2016-08-05 | The Carer | Sir Michael |
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2015-09-16 | Forsaken | James McCurdy |
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2015-07-16 | Pixels | Admiral Porter |
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2015-07-01 | Andrew Carnegie: Rags to Riches, Power to Peace | Andrew Carnegie (voice) |
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2014-09-18 | Scotland In A Day | |
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2014-06-19 | The Anomaly | Dr. Langham |
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2013-12-18 | Her | Alan Watts (voice) |
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2013-11-21 | An Adventure in Space and Time | Sydney Newman |
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2013-10-27 | The Curse of Edgar | Edgar Hoover |
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2013-10-13 | Anna | Sebastian |
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2013-10-04 | Believe | Matt Busby |
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2013-08-03 | Blumenthal | Harold Blumenthal |
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2013-07-18 | RED 2 | Ivan |
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2012-10-09 | Blood | Lenny Fairburn |
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2012-08-09 | The Campaign | Raymond |
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2012-05-25 | Wide Blue Yonder | Wally |
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2012-01-01 | I Missed My Mother's Funeral | Old Man |
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2011-10-16 | Exit Humanity | Malcolm Young (voice) |
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2011-09-10 | Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster | Glover |
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2011-08-03 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | John Landon |
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2011-04-29 | The Veteran | Gerry |
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2011-03-03 | Ironclad | Albany |
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2011-02-18 | The Key Man | Irving |
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2011-02-14 | Coriolanus | Menenius |
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2010-10-13 | RED | Ivan Simanov |
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2010-02-23 | On Expenses | |
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2010-01-25 | As Good As Dead | Reverend Kalahan |
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2009-10-23 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Action 12 Reporter (voice) |
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2009-09-11 | The Good Heart | Jacques |
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2009-04-24 | Tell-Tale | Van Doren |
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2009-04-07 | Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword | Green Dragon (voice) |
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2008-08-22 | Shoot on Sight | Daniel Tennant |
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2008-08-08 | Red | Avery Ludlow |
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2008-06-20 | The Escapist | Frank Perry |
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2008-01-01 | Agent Crush | Spanners (voice) |
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2007-12-25 | The Water Horse | Old Angus |
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2007-12-23 | The Secret of the Nutcracker | Drosselmeyer |
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2007-12-09 | Trick 'r Treat | Mr. Kreeg |
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2007-09-06 | Battle for Terra | General Hemmer (voice) |
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2007-04-09 | A Woman in Winter | Dr. Hunt |
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2007-03-02 | Zodiac | Melvin Belli |
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2006-10-27 | Running with Scissors | Dr. Finch |
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2006-10-03 | The Outsiders | Gabriel |
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2006-08-16 | The Flying Scotsman | Douglas Baxter |
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2005-12-23 | The Ringer | Gary Barker |
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2005-10-26 | Match Point | Alec Hewett |
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2005-09-08 | The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle | Joseph Bell |
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2005-08-19 | Red Eye | Joe Reisert |
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2005-02-23 | Blue/Orange | Dr. Robert Smith |
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2004-09-04 | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | Other Voices (voice) |
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2004-07-23 | The Bourne Supremacy | Ward Abbott |
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2004-05-13 | Troy | King Agamemnon |
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2004-02-26 | The Reckoning | Tobias |
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2003-11-25 | The Second Uncanny Issue of X-Men - Making X2 | |
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2003-04-27 | X2 | William Stryker |
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2003-01-01 | Sin | Captain Oakes |
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2002-12-19 | 25th Hour | James Brogan |
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2002-12-06 | Adaptation. | Robert McKee |
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2002-10-18 | The Ring | Richard Morgan |
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2002-09-29 | The Trials of Henry Kissinger | |
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2002-09-01 | The Biographer | Michael O'Mara |
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2002-06-14 | The Bourne Identity | Ward Abbott |
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2002-03-25 | The Rookie | Jim Morris Sr. |
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2002-02-28 | Bug | Cyr |
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2001-11-30 | The Affair of the Necklace | Minister Breteuil |
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2001-09-07 | L.I.E. | Big John Harrigan |
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2001-06-29 | Strictly Sinatra | Chisolm |
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2001-02-15 | Super Troopers | John O'Hagen |
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2000-09-29 | Saltwater | George Beneventi |
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2000-05-06 | Complicity | Inspector McDunn |
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2000-05-03 | A Shot at Glory | Martin Smith |
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2000-04-04 | Mad About Mambo | Sidney McLoughlin |
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2000-03-16 | The Invention of Dr. Morel | Dr. Morel |
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2000-01-02 | Longitude | Lord Morton |
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1999-09-17 | For Love of the Game | Gary Wheeler |
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1999-03-12 | The Corruptor | Sean Wallace |
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1999-02-25 | The Minus Man | Doug |
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1998-12-11 | Rushmore | Dr. Nelson Guggenheim |
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1998-07-25 | Poodle Springs | Clayton Blackstone |
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1998-03-01 | Merchants of Venus | Uncle Vladimir |
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1998-01-30 | Desperate Measures | Captain Jeremiah Cassidy |
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1997-12-31 | The Boxer | Joe Hamill |
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1997-11-11 | Food for Ravens | Aneurin Bevan |
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1997-10-13 | Sharpe: The Legend | Hogan |
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1997-09-29 | Kiss the Girls | Chief Hatfield, Durham P.D. |
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1996-10-11 | The Long Kiss Goodnight | Dr. Nathan Waldman |
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1996-10-04 | The Glimmer Man | Mr. Smith |
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1996-08-02 | Chain Reaction | Lyman Earl Collier |
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1996-03-10 | Witness Against Hitler | Judge Freisler |
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1995-05-24 | Braveheart | Argyle Wallace |
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1995-04-13 | Rob Roy | Killearn |
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1994-05-31 | The Negotiator | Charlie King |
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1994-03-24 | Grushko | Colonel Yevgeni Grushko |
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1994-02-23 | Royal Deceit | Aethelwine |
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1994-01-14 | Iron Will | Angus McTeague |
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1993-05-12 | Sharpe's Eagle | Major Michael Hogan |
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1993-05-05 | Sharpe's Rifles | Major Michael Hogan |
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1992-12-12 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | The Director |
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1992-08-10 | The Cutter | |
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1992-02-09 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Owen Benjamin |
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1992-01-16 | The Cloning of Joanna May | Carl May |
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1992-01-01 | Deceptions | Carlton Heard |
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1991-12-08 | Red Fox | Geoffrey Harrison |
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1990-11-21 | Hidden Agenda | Peter Kerrigan |
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1990-05-01 | The Making of 'Hidden Agenda' | self |
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1990-03-19 | Secret Weapon | Andrew Neil |
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1989-07-31 | The Blasphemers' Banquet | Rev. Wallace (voice) |
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1989-05-09 | Murder on the Moon | Voronov |
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1988-05-15 | Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun | Jack Purves |
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1987-03-16 | Shoot for the Sun | Dunny |
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1987-01-01 | Rat in the Skull | Detective Inspector Nelson |
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1986-11-08 | Home Cooking | Vic |
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1986-08-14 | Manhunter | Dr. Hannibal Lecktor |
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1985-07-05 | Florence Nightingale | Dr. McGregor |
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1985-04-07 | The Cantor of St Thomas's | Johann Sebastian Bach |
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1984-04-22 | Pope John Paul II | Father Góra |
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1983-04-03 | King Lear | Burgundy |
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1982-01-12 | A Cotswold Death | Dr. Gillespie |
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1982-01-01 | The Privilege | Young Laird |
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1980-08-03 | Dalhousie's Luck | Dalhousie |
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1976-02-24 | Clay, Smeddum and Greenden | George Simpson |
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1975-03-17 | In Celebration | Steven Shaw |
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1974-01-20 | The Changeling | Alsemero |
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1971-11-29 | Nicholas and Alexandra | Trotsky |
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1968-07-29 | The Year of the Sex Olympics | Lasar Opie |
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1965-07-07 | A Knight in Tarnished Armour | Nelson |