Kenneth Cranham
Known for: Acting
Born: December 12, 1944
Place of birth: Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
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.
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Filmography
101 movies · 75 TV shows, newest first
5.6
Finding Alice
2021
7.6
Trying
2020
6.7
Mr. Jones
2019
7.2
Official Secrets
2019
6.0
Hatton Garden
2019
7.5
The Spanish Princess
2019
7.4
Born a King
2019
NR
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018
6.9
Bancroft
2017
NR
Joe Orton Laid Bare
2017
6.3
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
7.2
Strike
2017
NR
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
2017
7.7
The White Princess
2017
6.2
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016
7.5
War and Peace
2016
6.4
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2015
7.1
Maleficent
2014
7.5
37 Days
2014
8.1
Inside No. 9
2014
4.8
The Legend of Hercules
2014
5.9
Closed Circuit
2013
4.8
Flying Blind
2013
7.2
In the Flesh
2013
NR
Panto!
2012
4.1
Suspension of Disbelief
2012
7.4
Death in Paradise
2011
6.0
Graffiti Wars
2011
8.5
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
2011
5.7
5 Days of War
2011
5.8
The Night Watch
2011
7.4
Upstairs Downstairs
2010
6.7
Made in Dagenham
2010
8.0
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
7.3
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
7.3
Moving On
2009NR
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009
7.0
Valkyrie
2008
7.8
Merlin
2008
7.5
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008
NR
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
2007
7.0
Heroes and Villains
2007
NR
The Man from Montevideo
2007
6.3
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
2007
7.6
Hot Fuzz
2007
7.4
Lilies
2007
6.7
A Good Year
2006
6.8
The Line of Beauty
2006
5.7
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
2006
5.3
The Chatterley Affair
2006NR
The Lavender List
2006
8.2
Rome
2005
6.0
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
2005
7.8
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
6.9
Layer Cake
2004
5.2
Trauma
2004
7.5
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
2004
9.0
The Genius of Mozart
2004
7.7
Hustle
20044.3
Man Dancin'
2004
7.3
New Tricks
2004
5.0
Sparkling Cyanide
2003
5.2
Blackball
2003
7.0
Murder Investigation Team
2003
6.5
Killing Hitler
2003
8.4
Pollyanna
2003
6.7
Two Men Went To War
2002
6.8
Believe Nothing
2002
7.0
Dickens
20027.5
Night Flight
2002
NR
The Voynich Mystery
2002
5.4
Women Talking Dirty
2001
NR
Neanderthal
2001
6.0
Without Motive
2000
5.4
Shiner
2000
6.0
Born Romantic
2000
5.4
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
6.4
Gangster No. 1
2000
5.7
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
2000
4.6
Lady Audley's Secret
2000
5.0
Kevin & Perry Go Large
2000NR
Justice in Wonderland
2000
6.8
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1999
7.5
The Last Yellow
1999
5.1
Vigo
1998
3.3
RPM
1998
7.8
Our Mutual Friend
1998
6.7
The Boxer
1997
5.3
Midnight Man
1997
7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
7.5
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
8.0
Deep in the Heart
1996
5.1
On Dangerous Ground
1996
6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe
1996
5.9
Bed of Roses
1996
7.3
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
7.5
Requiem Apache
1994
NR
The Vision Thing
1993
7.5
Royal Celebration
1993
NR
He-Play She-Play
1993
5.6
Tale of a Vampire
1993
NR
Monkey Boy
1992
9.0
A Little Bit of Lippy
1992
5.5
Between the Lines
1992
7.2
Heartbeat
1992
6.5
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
6.9
Murder Most Horrid
1991
5.9
Under Suspicion
1991
6.8
Prospero's Books
1991
6.0
Chimera
1991
6.6
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
4.5
Rules of Engagement
1989
NR
A Master of the Marionettes
1989
9.0
Just Another Secret
1989
6.4
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988
NR
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988
6.2
Stealing Heaven
1988
6.9
Chocolat
1988
NR
The Party
1988
10.0
Normal Service
1988
6.0
The Play on One
1988
6.8
The Birthday Party
1987
7.9
Inspector Morse
1987
6.8
Making Waves
198710.0
A Sort of Innocence
1986
6.2
Casualty
1986
6.0
ScreenPlay
1986
7.4
Lovejoy
1986
6.4
Dead Man's Folly
1986
9.0
Lady Windermere's Fan
1985
NR
Theatre Night
1985
8.0
The Dumb Waiter
1985
7.4
Natural World
1983
7.0
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
NR
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
19823.0
The Bell
1982
7.7
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
7.8
Brideshead Revisited
1981
NR
The Caretaker
1981
NR
The Sin Bin
1981
7.3
The Merchant of Venice
1980
6.0
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1980
8.0
Cribb
1980
5.5
Therese Raquin
1980NR
Donkeys' Years
1980
7.1
Minder
1979
8.0
Danger UXB
1979
10.0
Butterflies Don't Count
1978
7.3
Strangers
1978
8.2
Enemy at the Door
1978
5.1
Joseph Andrews
1977
6.3
Robin and Marian
1976NR
Against the Crowd
1975
5.2
Vampira
1974
8.5
The Changeling
1974
4.0
Achilles Heel
1973
5.7
Crown Court
1972
6.2
Van der Valk
1972
6.3
New Scotland Yard
1972
7.0
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
7.2
Budgie
1971
6.1
Up Pompeii
1971
6.6
Play for Today
1970
6.0
From a Bird's Eye View
1970
5.9
Fragment of Fear
1970
7.0
All the Way Up
1970
8.0
Sling Your Hook
1969
6.3
Otley
1969
7.0
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
7.0
Oliver!
1968
9.0
Death of a Private
1967
7.0
ITV Playhouse
1967
NR
Boy Meets Girl
1967
5.2
BBC Play of the Month
1965
4.3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
5.4
Coronation Street
1960