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.
Born: 12 December 1944
Played In
Finding Alice
Gerry
Trying
Barry
Mr. Jones
Lloyd George
Official Secrets
Judge Hyam
Hatton Garden
Brian Reader
The Spanish Princess
John Morton
Born a King
Lord Curzon
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Leopold Czihaczek
Bancroft
Charlie Haverstock
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Himself
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Joe Turner
Strike
Dennis Creed
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
The Host
The White Princess
John Morton
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Dean Smith
War and Peace
Uncle Mikhail
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
Maleficent
King Henry
37 Days
John Burns
Inside No. 9
Rupert
The Legend of Hercules
Lucius
Closed Circuit
Cameron Fischer
Flying Blind
Victor
In the Flesh
Vicar Oddie
Panto!
Jerry
Suspension of Disbelief
Bullock
Death in Paradise
Father John
Graffiti Wars
Narrator (Voice)
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Firs
5 Days of War
Michael Stilton
The Night Watch
Horace Mundy
Upstairs Downstairs
Sgt Ashworth
Made in Dagenham
Monty Taylor
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
MJ O'Loughlin
Moving On
Mike
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
W H Auden
Valkyrie
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Merlin
Aulfric
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Mr Clare
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
General Carteaux
Heroes and Villains
The Man from Montevideo
Gary Solway
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Captain Turner
Hot Fuzz
James Reaper
Lilies
Lilies
Health Inspector
A Good Year
Sir Nigel
The Line of Beauty
Sir Maurice Tipper
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Narrator
The Chatterley Affair
Older Keith
The Lavender List
Harold Wilson
Rome
Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
Mr. Kent
Agatha Christie's Marple
Rex Fortescue
Layer Cake
Jimmy Price
Trauma
DC Jackson
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
Narrator
The Genius of Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Hustle
Francis Owen
Man Dancin'
D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
New Tricks
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Blackball
Chairman Collins
Murder Investigation Team
Ray Morgan
Killing Hitler
Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
Pollyanna
Mr. Pendleton
Two Men Went To War
Sgt. Peter King
Believe Nothing
DI Aldiss
Dickens
John Forster
Night Flight
Ted Atwell
The Voynich Mystery
Narrator
Women Talking Dirty
George
Without Motive
DCS Derek Henderson
Shiner
Gibson
Born Romantic
Barney
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Colonel Schmidt
Gangster No. 1
Tommy
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Da
Lady Audley's Secret
Sir Michael Audley
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Vicar
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Michael Mansfield QC
The Last Yellow
Len
Vigo
The Producer
RPM
Biggerman
Our Mutual Friend
Silas Wegg
The Boxer
Matt MaGuire
Midnight Man
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Midsomer Murders
Jude Langham
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Reverend Michael Millward
Deep in the Heart
Robert Flaherty
On Dangerous Ground
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Bed of Roses
Simon
Kavanagh Q.C.
Roy Lawrence
Requiem Apache
Tony
The Vision Thing
Dick Naughton
Royal Celebration
Douglas
Tale of a Vampire
Edgar
Monkey Boy
Hennessey
A Little Bit of Lippy
Reggie Titherington
Between the Lines
DCI Stubbs
Heartbeat
Charlie Wallace
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Colonel Schmidt
Murder Most Horrid
Insp Salford
Under Suspicion
Frank Vance
Prospero's Books
Sebastian
Chimera
Hennessey
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Pastor Finch
Rules of Engagement
Martin Goodman
A Master of the Marionettes
Teddy
Just Another Secret
Brosch
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
The Black and Blue Lamp
Supt. Cherry
Stealing Heaven
Vice Chancellor Suger
Chocolat
Jonathan Boothby
The Party
Joe Shawcross
Normal Service
Peter
The Play on One
Peter
The Play on One
Joe Shawcross
The Play on One
Teddy Rose
The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber
Inspector Morse
Cedric Downes
Making Waves
Joe Nash
A Sort of Innocence
Casualty
James Lawrence
ScreenPlay
Supt. Cherry
ScreenPlay
Reggie Titherington
ScreenPlay
Dick Naughton
Lovejoy
Litvak
Dead Man's Folly
Insp. Bland
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington
Theatre Night
Stanley
The Dumb Waiter
Gus
Natural World
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Lenin
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
Self
The Bell
Nick Fawley
Shine on Harvey Moon
Harvey Moon
Brideshead Revisited
Sergeant Block
The Caretaker
Aston
The Sin Bin
Alan Grieves
The Merchant of Venice
Gratiano
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Giovanni
Cribb
Francis Mostyn-Smith
Therese Raquin
Camille Raquin
Donkeys' Years
Bill Taylor
Minder
Walter
Danger UXB
Sapper Salt
Danger UXB
L / Corporal Salt
Butterflies Don't Count
Tom
Strangers
Willie Bruce
Strangers
DCI Jim Lennard
Enemy at the Door
Jack Foster
Joseph Andrews
The Wicked Squire
Robin and Marian
Jack's Apprentice
Against the Crowd
Geoff Smailes
Vampira
Paddy
The Changeling
Antonio
Achilles Heel
Gordon
Crown Court
John Tucker
Van der Valk
Dirk Boutsen
New Scotland Yard
David Collins
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Paolo
Budgie
Inky Ballantine
Up Pompeii
Christian
Play for Today
Alan Grieves
Play for Today
Tom
From a Bird's Eye View
Tim O'Donovan
Fragment of Fear
Joe
All the Way Up
Tom Midway
Sling Your Hook
Roland
Otley
Kid
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Terry
Oliver!
Noah Claypole
Death of a Private
Young intellectual
ITV Playhouse
Private Seaton
Boy Meets Girl
Tom Last
BBC Play of the Month
Antonio
Coronation Street
Roy