Kenneth Cranham
Actor

Kenneth Cranham

2 Movies
2 Credits
Personal Info
Known For Acting
Known Credits 2
Birthday December 12, 1944 (81 years old)
Place of Birth Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
Also Known As Ken Cranham , ΠšΠ΅Π½Π½Π΅Ρ‚ ΠšΡ€ΡΠ½Π΅ΠΌ
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Biography

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.

Filmography (171)

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