Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

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: Acting

Born: Dunfermline - Scotland - UK, 1944-12-12

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Death of a Private	Young intellectual	0
2	1968	Oliver!	Noah Claypole	70
3	1969	Otley	Kid	62
4	1969	Sling Your Hook	Roland	0
5	1970	All the Way Up	Tom Midway	60
6	1970	Fragment of Fear	Joe	59
7	1971	Up Pompeii	Christian	61
8	1972	Brother Sun, Sister Moon	Paolo	70
9	1973	Achilles Heel	Gordon	10
10	1974	The Changeling	Antonio	70
11	1974	Vampira	Paddy	53
12	1976	Robin and Marian	Jack's Apprentice	63
13	1977	Joseph Andrews	The Wicked Squire	47
14	1978	Butterflies Don't Count	Tom	0
15	1980	Donkeys' Years	Bill Taylor	0
16	1980	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	Giovanni	50
17	1980	The Merchant of Venice	Gratiano	70
18	1981	The Sin Bin	Alan Grieves	0
19	1981	The Caretaker	Aston	0
20	1985	The Dumb Waiter	Gus	80
21	1985	Lady Windermere's Fan	Lord Darlington	0
22	1986	Dead Man's Folly	Insp. Bland	63
23	1987	Making Waves	Joe Nash	65
24	1987	The Birthday Party	Stanley Webber	67
25	1988	Normal Service	Peter	0
26	1988	The Party	Joe Shawcross	0
27	1988	Chocolat	Jonathan Boothby	69
28	1988	Stealing Heaven	Vice Chancellor Suger	64
29	1988	The Black and Blue Lamp		0
30	1988	Hellbound: Hellraiser II	Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite	64
31	1989	Just Another Secret	Brosch	0
32	1989	A Master of the Marionettes	Teddy	0
33	1991	Prospero's Books	Sebastian	68
34	1991	Under Suspicion	Frank Vance	59
35	1992	A Little Bit of Lippy	Reggie Titherington	0
36	1992	Monkey Boy	Hennessey	0
37	1993	Tale of a Vampire	Edgar	52
38	1993	Royal Celebration	Douglas	60
39	1993	The Vision Thing	Dick Naughton	0
40	1994	Requiem Apache	Tony	70
41	1996	Bed of Roses	Simon	58
42	1996	On Dangerous Ground	Brigadier Charles Ferguson	48
43	1996	Deep in the Heart	Robert Flaherty	0
44	1997	Midnight Man	Brigadier Charles Ferguson	48
45	1997	The Boxer	Matt MaGuire	67
46	1998	RPM	Biggerman	28
47	1998	Vigo	The Producer	48
48	1999	The Last Yellow	Len	60
49	1999	The Murder of Stephen Lawrence	Michael Mansfield QC	57
50	2000	Kevin & Perry Go Large	Vicar	50
51	2000	Lady Audley's Secret	Sir Michael Audley	35
52	2000	The Most Fertile Man in Ireland	Da	57
53	2000	Gangster No. 1	Tommy	64
54	2000	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades	Colonel Schmidt	51
55	2000	Born Romantic	Barney	61
56	2000	Shiner	Gibson	54
57	2001	Women Talking Dirty	George	51
58	2002	The Voynich Mystery	Narrator	0
59	2002	Night Flight	Ted Atwell	60
60	2002	Two Men Went To War	Sgt. Peter King	63
61	2003	Pollyanna	Mr. Pendleton	84
62	2003	Killing Hitler	Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies	58
63	2003	Blackball	Chairman Collins	52
64	2003	Sparkling Cyanide	George Barton	47
65	2004	Man Dancin'	D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers	15
66	2004	Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome	Narrator	78
67	2004	Trauma	DC Jackson	51
68	2004	Layer Cake	Jimmy Price	69
69	2006	The Lavender List	Harold Wilson	0
70	2006	Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare	Narrator	56
71	2006	A Good Year	Sir Nigel	67
72	2007	Hot Fuzz	James Reaper	76
73	2007	Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea	Captain Turner	67
74	2007	Heroes & Villains: Napoleon	General Carteaux	0
75	2008	Valkyrie	Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel	69
76	2009	Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen	MJ O'Loughlin	73
77	2010	Harold Pinter: A Celebration	Self	0
78	2010	Made in Dagenham	Monty Taylor	67
79	2011	The Night Watch	Horace Mundy	59
80	2011	5 Days of War	Michael Stilton	56
81	2011	National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard	Firs	100
82	2011	Graffiti Wars	Narrator (Voice)	60
83	2012	Suspension of Disbelief	Bullock	43
84	2012	Panto!	Jerry	0
85	2013	Flying Blind	Victor	50
86	2013	Closed Circuit	Cameron Fischer	59
87	2014	The Legend of Hercules	Lucius	48
88	2014	Maleficent	King Henry	71
89	2015	Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II	Self	64
90	2017	Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer	The Host	0
91	2017	Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool	Joe Turner	64
92	2017	Joe Orton Laid Bare	Himself	0
93	2018	Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires	Leopold Czihaczek	0
94	2019	Born a King	Lord Curzon	73
95	2019	Official Secrets	Judge Hyam	72
96	2019	Mr. Jones	Lloyd George	68

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Coronation Street	Roy	54
2	1965	BBC Play of the Month	Antonio	50
3	1970	From a Bird's Eye View	Tim O'Donovan	55
4	1970	Play for Today	Alan Grieves	63
5	1971	Budgie	Inky Ballantine	70
6	1972	Van der Valk	Dirk Boutsen	58
7	1972	Crown Court	John Tucker	54
8	1978	Enemy at the Door	Jack Foster	78
9	1978	The BBC Television Shakespeare	Gratiano	60
10	1979	Danger UXB	Sapper Salt	80
11	1979	Danger UXB	L / Corporal Salt	80
12	1979	Minder	Walter	68
13	1980	Therese Raquin	Camille Raquin	59
14	1981	Brideshead Revisited	Sergeant Block	79
15	1982	Shine on Harvey Moon	Harvey Moon	76
16	1982	The Bell	Nick Fawley	10
17	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Lenin	70
18	1983	Natural World		71
19	1985	Theatre Night	Stanley	0
20	1986	Lovejoy	Litvak	73
21	1986	Casualty	James Lawrence	61
22	1986	A Sort of Innocence		0
23	1987	Inspector Morse	Cedric Downes	78
24	1988	The Play on One	Joe Shawcross	60
25	1988	The Play on One	Peter	60
26	1989	Rules of Engagement	Martin Goodman	20
27	1990	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit	Pastor Finch	68
28	1991	Chimera	Hennessey	60
29	1991	Murder Most Horrid	Inspector Salford	66
30	1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Colonel Schmidt	65
31	1992	Heartbeat	Charlie Wallace	71
32	1992	Between the Lines		56
33	1995	Kavanagh Q.C.	Roy Lawrence	70
34	1996	Dalziel & Pascoe	Tommy Collingwood	64
35	1996	The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	Reverend Millward	74
36	1997	Midsomer Murders	Jude Langham	75
37	1998	Our Mutual Friend		78
38	2000	Without Motive	DCS Derek Henderson	55
39	2000	Sins	Gilbert	5
40	2002	Dickens		0
41	2002	Believe Nothing	DI Aldiss	67
42	2003	Murder Investigation Team	Ray Morgan	55
43	2004	New Tricks		74
44	2004	Hustle	Francis Owen	76
45	2004	The Genius of Mozart	Leopold Mozart	0
46	2004	Agatha Christie's Marple	Rex Fortescue	77
47	2005	Rome	Gnaeus Pompey Magnus	82
48	2006	The Line of Beauty	Sir Maurice Tipper	65
49	2007	Lilies		75
50	2007	Lilies	Health Inspector	75
51	2007	Heroes and Villains		70
52	2008	Tess of the D'Urbervilles	Mr Clare	76
53	2008	Merlin	Aulfric	78
54	2009	The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words	W H Auden	0
55	2009	Moving On	Mike	71
56	2011	Death in Paradise	Father John	74
57	2013	In the Flesh	Vicar Oddie	72
58	2014	Inside No. 9	Rupert	80
59	2014	37 Days	John Burns	74
60	2016	War and Peace	Uncle Mikhail	76
61	2016	Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories		62
62	2017	The White Princess	John Morton	78
63	2017	Strike	Dennis Creed	71
64	2017	Bancroft	Charlie Haverstock	67
65	2019	The Spanish Princess	John Morton	76
66	2019	Hatton Garden	Brian Reader	58
67	2020	Trying	Barry	77
68	2021	Finding Alice	Gerry	55

Kenneth Cranham

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