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.
Series | Finding Alice | Gerry | 2021-01-17 |
Movie | Born a King | Lord Curzon | 2019-04-25 |
Series | Hatton Garden | Brian Reader | 2019-05-20 |
Movie | Official Secrets | Judge Hyam | 2019-08-30 |
Movie | Mr. Jones | Lloyd George | 2019-10-03 |
Movie | Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires | Leopold Czihaczek | 2018-11-10 |
Series | The White Princess | John Morton | 2017-04-16 |
Movie | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Joe Turner | 2017-11-17 |
Series | Bancroft | Charlie Haverstock | 2017-12-11 |
Movie | Joe Orton Laid Bare | Himself | 2017-11-25 |
Series | War and Peace | Uncle Mikhail | 2016-01-03 |
Series | Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories | Unknown | 2016-05-26 |
Movie | Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Self | 2015-06-18 |
Movie | The Legend of Hercules | Lucius | 2014-01-10 |
Series | 37 Days | John Burns | 2014-03-06 |
Movie | Maleficent | King Henry | 2014-05-28 |
Movie | Flying Blind | Victor | 2013-04-12 |
Series | In the Flesh | Vicar Oddie | 2013-03-17 |
Movie | Closed Circuit | Cameron Fischer | 2013-08-28 |
Movie | Suspension of Disbelief | Bullock | 2012-11-01 |
Movie | Panto! | Jerry | 2012-12-26 |
Movie | The Night Watch | Horace Mundy | 2011-04-04 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard | Firs | 2011-06-30 |
Movie | Graffiti Wars | Narrator (Voice) | 2011-08-14 |
Movie | Harold Pinter: A Celebration | Self | 2010-01-24 |
Movie | Made in Dagenham | Monty Taylor | 2010-10-01 |
Series | The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words | W H Auden | 2009-05-17 |
Movie | Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen | MJ O'Loughlin | 2009-08-05 |
Series | Moving On | Mike | 2009-05-18 |
Series | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Mr Clare | 2008-09-14 |
Movie | Valkyrie | Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel | 2008-12-25 |
Series | Merlin | Aulfric | 2008-09-20 |
Series | Lilies | Health Inspector | 2007-01-12 |
Movie | Hot Fuzz | James Reaper | 2007-02-14 |
Series | Heroes and Villains | 2007-11-11 | |
Movie | Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea | Captain Turner | 2007-05-12 |
Movie | The Lavender List | Harold Wilson | 2006-03-01 |
Movie | Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare | Narrator | 2006-05-05 |
Movie | A Good Year | Sir Nigel | 2006-09-09 |
Series | The Line of Beauty | Sir Maurice Tipper | 2006-05-17 |
Series | Rome | Gnaeus Pompey Magnus | 2005-08-28 |
Movie | Man Dancin' | D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers | 2004-02-20 |
Series | New Tricks | Unknown | 2004-01-01 |
Series | Hustle | Unknown | 2004-02-24 |
Series | The Genius of Mozart | Leopold Mozart | 2004-03-19 |
Movie | Layer Cake | Jimmy Price | 2004-09-30 |
Movie | Trauma | DC Jackson | 2004-09-17 |
Movie | Killing Hitler | Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies | 2003-03-30 |
Series | Murder Investigation Team | Unknown | 2003-05-03 |
Movie | Pollyanna | Mr. Pendleton | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Blackball | Chairman Collins | 2003-05-18 |
Movie | Sparkling Cyanide | George Barton | 2003-10-05 |
Series | Believe Nothing | Unknown | 2002-07-14 |
Movie | Night Flight | Ted Atwell | 2002-02-02 |
Movie | Two Men Went To War | Sgt. Peter King | 2002-11-01 |
Movie | Women Talking Dirty | George | 2001-12-07 |
Movie | Gangster No. 1 | Tommy | 2000-06-09 |
Movie | Kevin & Perry Go Large | Vicar | 2000-04-20 |
Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades | Colonel Schmidt | 2000-07-12 |
Movie | Lady Audley's Secret | Sir Michael Audley | 2000-05-17 |
Movie | Born Romantic | Barney | 2000-09-14 |
Series | Sins | Unknown | 2000-10-24 |
Series | Without Motive | DCS Derek Henderson | 2000-10-02 |
Movie | Shiner | Gibson | 2000-09-22 |
Movie | The Murder of Stephen Lawrence | Michael Mansfield QC | 1999-02-18 |
Movie | RPM | Biggerman | 1998-06-23 |
Series | Our Mutual Friend | 1998-03-09 | |
Movie | Vigo | The Producer | 1998-09-14 |
Movie | Midnight Man | Brig. Charles Ferguson | 1997-08-20 |
Movie | The Boxer | Matt MaGuire | 1997-12-31 |
Movie | Bed of Roses | Simon | 1996-01-26 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Tommy Collingwood | 1996-03-16 |
Series | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Reverend Millward | 1996-11-17 |
Movie | Deep in the Heart | Robert Flaherty | 1996-10-10 |
Movie | On Dangerous Ground | Brig. Charles Ferguson | 1996-05-13 |
Series | Kavanagh Q.C. | Unknown | 1995-01-03 |
Movie | Requiem Apache | Tony | 1994-10-11 |
Movie | Tale of a Vampire | Edgar | 1993-02-05 |
Series | Heartbeat | Unknown | 1992-04-10 |
Movie | Monkey Boy | Hennessey | 1992-12-31 |
Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
Series | Chimera | Hennessey | 1991-07-07 |
Movie | Prospero's Books | Sebastian | 1991-08-30 |
Series | Murder Most Horrid | Unknown | 1991-11-14 |
Movie | Under Suspicion | Frank Vance | 1991-09-27 |
Series | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Pastor Finch | 1990-01-10 |
Movie | Just Another Secret | Brosch | 1989-01-01 |
Movie | Chocolat | Boothby | 1988-05-18 |
Movie | Stealing Heaven | Vice Chancellor Suger | 1988-05-20 |
Movie | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite | 1988-12-23 |
Movie | The Black and Blue Lamp | 1988-09-07 | |
Movie | Making Waves | Joe Nash | 1987-01-01 |
Series | Inspector Morse | Unknown | 1987-01-06 |
Movie | The Birthday Party | Stanley Webber | 1987-06-21 |
Movie | Dead Man's Folly | Insp. Bland | 1986-01-08 |
Series | Lovejoy | Unknown | 1986-01-10 |
Series | Casualty | James Lawrence | 1986-09-06 |
Series | A Sort of Innocence | 1986-12-01 | |
Movie | Lady Windermere's Fan | Lord Darlington | 1985-09-15 |
Series | Natural World | Unknown | 1983-10-30 |
Series | Shine on Harvey Moon | 1982-01-08 | |
Series | Brideshead Revisited | Sergeant Block | 1981-10-12 |
Movie | The Sin Bin | Alan Grieves | 1981-03-17 |
Movie | The Caretaker | Aston | 1981-06-07 |
Movie | Donkeys' Years | Bill Taylor | 1980-01-01 |
Series | Thérèse Raquin | Camille Raquin | 1980-03-12 |
Movie | The Merchant of Venice | Gratiano | 1980-12-17 |
Movie | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | Giovanni | 1980-05-07 |
Series | Danger UXB | 1979-01-08 | |
Series | BBC Television Shakespeare | Unknown | 1978-12-03 |
Series | Enemy at the Door | Unknown | 1978-01-28 |
Movie | Joseph Andrews | The Wicked Squire | 1977-03-09 |
Movie | Robin and Marian | Jack's Apprentice | 1976-03-11 |
Movie | Vampira | Paddy | 1974-10-10 |
Movie | The Changeling | 1974-01-20 | |
Movie | Achilles Heel | Gordon | 1973-03-18 |
Movie | Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Paolo | 1972-03-03 |
Series | Crown Court | Unknown | 1972-10-11 |
Series | Van der Valk | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
Series | Budgie | Unknown | 1971-04-09 |
Movie | All the Way Up | Tom Midway | 1970-06-01 |
Movie | Fragment of Fear | Joe | 1970-09-03 |
Movie | Otley | Kid | 1969-03-11 |
Movie | Sling Your Hook | Roland | 1969-04-02 |
Movie | Oliver! | Noah Claypole | 1968-09-26 |