Kenneth Cranham
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 12, 1944 (age 81)
- Place of birth
- Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
- Credits
- 178
Scottish born actor Kenneth Cranham is one of the most recognisable character actors in Britain. Having trained at the National Youth Theatre and RADA, Cranham first came to prominence as Noah Claypole in the 1968 Carol Reed musical Oliver! In the late '70s, Cranham memorably played Sapper Salt in Euston Films' Danger UXB, before taking the title role in the popular postwar set period comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. His most famous film role from around this time was Dr. Philip Channard in Hellraiser II. In more recent years he has starred in the HBO series Rome, as well as the films Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Valkyrie, Made in Dagenham, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool. Among many stage credits are West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Loot, An Inspector Calls (both transferring to Broadway), The Ruffian on the Stair, The Birthday Party and Gaslight (at the Old Vic). For his role as Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. In 2016, Cranham won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Andre in Florian Zeller's The Father. The play originated at the Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio in the Autumn of 2014, before touring the country and transferring to the West End in the Summer of 2015, and returning to the Duke of York's Theatre in Spring 2016. The play received an unprecedented five star review from every leading national press publication, and Cranham's performance was described as "the performance of his life" His first wife was actress Diana Quick. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with actress Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory, whom he met on the set of Shine on Harvey Moon.
Known for
Filmography
Finding Alice
2021TV
Gerry Walsh
Trying
2020TV
Barry
Mr. Jones
2019Movie
Lloyd George
Official Secrets
2019Movie
Judge Hyam
Hatton Garden
2019TV
Brian Reader
The Spanish Princess
2019TV
John Morton
Born a King
2019Movie
Lord Curzon
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018Movie
Leopold Czihaczek
Bancroft
2017TV
Charlie Haverstock
Joe Orton Laid Bare
2017Movie
Himself
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017Movie
Joe Turner
Strike
2017TV
Dennis Creed
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
2017Movie
The Host
The White Princess
2017TV
John Morton
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016TV
Dean Smith
War and Peace
2016TV
Uncle Mikhail
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2015Movie
Self
Maleficent
2014Movie
King Henry
37 Days
2014TV
John Burns
Inside No. 9
2014TV
Rupert
The Legend of Hercules
2014Movie
Lucius
Closed Circuit
2013Movie
Cameron Fischer
Flying Blind
2013Movie
Victor
In the Flesh
2013TV
Vicar Oddie
Panto!
2012Movie
Jerry
Suspension of Disbelief
2012Movie
Bullock
Death in Paradise
2011TV
Father John
Graffiti Wars
2011Movie
Narrator (Voice)
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
2011Movie
Firs
5 Days of War
2011Movie
Michael Stilton
The Night Watch
2011Movie
Horace Mundy
Upstairs Downstairs
2010TV
Sgt Ashworth
Made in Dagenham
2010Movie
Monty Taylor
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010Movie
Self
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009Movie
MJ O'Loughlin
Moving On
2009TV
Mike
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009TV
W H Auden
Valkyrie
2008Movie
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Merlin
2008TV
Aulfric
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008TV
Mr Clare
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
2007Movie
General Carteaux
Heroes and Villains
2007TV
The Man from Montevideo
2007Movie
Gary Solway
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
2007Movie
Captain Turner
Hot Fuzz
2007Movie
James Reaper
Lilies
2007TV
Health Inspector
A Good Year
2006Movie
Sir Nigel
The Line of Beauty
2006TV
Sir Maurice Tipper
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
2006Movie
Narrator
The Chatterley Affair
2006Movie
Older Keith
The Lavender List
2006Movie
Harold Wilson
Rome
2005TV
Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
2005Movie
Mr. Kent
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004TV
Rex Fortescue
Layer Cake
2004Movie
Jimmy Price
Trauma
2004Movie
DC Jackson
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
2004Movie
Narrator
The Genius of Mozart
2004TV
Leopold Mozart
Hustle
2004TV
Francis Owen
Man Dancin'
2004Movie
D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
New Tricks
2004TV
Sparkling Cyanide
2003Movie
George Barton
Blackball
2003Movie
Chairman Collins
Murder Investigation Team
2003TV
Ray Morgan
Killing Hitler
2003Movie
Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
Pollyanna
2003Movie
Mr. Pendleton
Two Men Went To War
2002Movie
Sgt. Peter King
Believe Nothing
2002TV
DI Aldiss
Dickens
2002TV
John Forster
Night Flight
2002Movie
Ted Atwell
The Voynich Mystery
2002Movie
Narrator
Women Talking Dirty
2001Movie
George
Neanderthal
2001TV
Self - Narrator (voice)
Without Motive
2000TV
DCS Derek Henderson
Shiner
2000Movie
Gibson
Born Romantic
2000Movie
Barney
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000Movie
Colonel Schmidt
Gangster No. 1
2000Movie
Tommy
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
2000Movie
Da
Lady Audley's Secret
2000Movie
Sir Michael Audley
Kevin & Perry Go Large
2000Movie
Vicar
Justice in Wonderland
2000Movie
George Carman
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1999Movie
Michael Mansfield QC
The Last Yellow
1999Movie
Len
Vigo
1998Movie
The Producer
RPM
1998Movie
Biggerman
Our Mutual Friend
1998TV
Silas Wegg
The Boxer
1997Movie
Matt MaGuire
Midnight Man
1997Movie
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Midsomer Murders
1997TV
Jude Langham
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996TV
Reverend Michael Millward
Deep in the Heart
1996Movie
Robert Flaherty
On Dangerous Ground
1996Movie
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996TV
Tommy Collingwood
Bed of Roses
1996Movie
Simon
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995TV
Roy Lawrence
Requiem Apache
1994Movie
Tony
The Vision Thing
1993Movie
Dick Naughton
Royal Celebration
1993Movie
Douglas
He-Play She-Play
1993TV
Detective Inspector
Tale of a Vampire
1993Movie
Edgar
Monkey Boy
1992Movie
Hennessey
A Little Bit of Lippy
1992Movie
Reggie Titherington
Between the Lines
1992TV
DCI Stubbs
Heartbeat
1992TV
Charlie Wallace
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992TV
Colonel Schmidt
Murder Most Horrid
1991TV
Insp Salford
Under Suspicion
1991Movie
Frank Vance
Prospero's Books
1991Movie
Sebastian
Chimera
1991TV
Hennessey
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990TV
Pastor Finch
Rules of Engagement
1989TV
Martin Goodman
A Master of the Marionettes
1989Movie
Teddy
Just Another Secret
1989Movie
Brosch
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988Movie
Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988Movie
Supt. Cherry
Stealing Heaven
1988Movie
Vice Chancellor Suger
Chocolat
1988Movie
Jonathan Boothby
The Party
1988Movie
Joe Shawcross
Normal Service
1988Movie
Peter
The Play on One
1988TV
Peter, Joe Shawcross, Teddy Rose
The Birthday Party
1987Movie
Stanley Webber
Inspector Morse
1987TV
Cedric Downes
Making Waves
1987Movie
Joe Nash
A Sort of Innocence
1986TV
Casualty
1986TV
James Lawrence
ScreenPlay
1986TV
Supt. Cherry, Reggie Titherington, Dick Naughton
Lovejoy
1986TV
Litvak
Dead Man's Folly
1986Movie
Insp. Bland
Lady Windermere's Fan
1985Movie
Lord Darlington
Theatre Night
1985TV
Stanley
The Dumb Waiter
1985Movie
Gus
Summer Season
1985TV
Gus
Natural World
1983TV
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983TV
Lenin
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
1982Movie
Self
The Bell
1982TV
Nick Fawley
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982TV
Harvey Moon
Brideshead Revisited
1981TV
Sergeant Block
The Caretaker
1981Movie
Aston
The Sin Bin
1981Movie
Alan Grieves
The Merchant of Venice
1980Movie
Gratiano
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1980Movie
Giovanni
Cribb
1980TV
Francis Mostyn-Smith
Therese Raquin
1980TV
Camille Raquin
Donkeys' Years
1980Movie
Bill Taylor
Minder
1979TV
Walter
Danger UXB
1979TV
Sapper Salt, L / Corporal Salt
Butterflies Don't Count
1978Movie
Tom
Strangers
1978TV
Willie Bruce, DCI Jim Lennard
Enemy at the Door
1978TV
Jack Foster
Joseph Andrews
1977Movie
The Wicked Squire
Robin and Marian
1976Movie
Jack's Apprentice
Against the Crowd
1975TV
Geoff Smailes
Vampira
1974Movie
Paddy
Village Hall
1974TV
Lop
The Changeling
1974Movie
Antonio
Achilles Heel
1973Movie
Gordon
Crown Court
1972TV
John Tucker
Van der Valk
1972TV
Dirk Boutsen
New Scotland Yard
1972TV
David Collins
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972Movie
Paolo
Budgie
1971TV
Inky Ballantine
Up Pompeii
1971Movie
Christian
Play for Today
1970TV
Alan Grieves, Tom
From a Bird's Eye View
1970TV
Tim O'Donovan
Fragment of Fear
1970Movie
Joe
All the Way Up
1970Movie
Tom Midway
Sling Your Hook
1969Movie
Roland
Otley
1969Movie
Kid
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969TV
Terry
Oliver!
1968Movie
Noah Claypole
Death of a Private
1967Movie
Young intellectual
ITV Playhouse
1967TV
Private Seaton
Boy Meets Girl
1967TV
Tom Last
BBC Play of the Month
1965TV
Antonio
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Charlie, Barry
Coronation Street
1960TV
Roy