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 | Official Secrets | Judge Hyam | 2019-08-30 |
Series | Hatton Garden | Brian Reader | 2019-05-20 |
Movie | Born a King | Lord Curzon | 2019-04-25 |
Movie | Mr. Jones | Lloyd George | 2019-10-03 |
Movie | Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires | Leopold Czihaczek | 2018-11-10 |
Series | Bancroft | Charlie Haverstock | 2017-12-11 |
Movie | Joe Orton Laid Bare | Himself | 2017-11-25 |
Movie | Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool | Joe Turner | 2017-11-17 |
Movie | Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer | The Host | 2017-08-01 |
Series | The White Princess | Cardinal Morton | 2017-04-16 |
Series | Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories | Unknown | 2016-05-26 |
Series | War and Peace | Uncle Mikhail | 2016-01-03 |
Movie | Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Himself | 2015-06-18 |
Movie | The Legend of Hercules | Lucius | 2014-01-10 |
Movie | Maleficent | King Henry | 2014-05-28 |
Series | Inside No. 9 | Rupert | 2014-02-05 |
Series | 37 Days | John Burns | 2014-03-06 |
Movie | Closed Circuit | Cameron Fischer | 2013-08-28 |
Movie | Flying Blind | Victor | 2013-04-12 |
Series | In the Flesh | Vicar Oddie | 2013-03-17 |
Movie | Panto! | Jerry | 2012-12-26 |
Movie | Suspension of Disbelief | Bullock | 2012-11-01 |
Movie | Graffiti Wars | Narrator (Voice) | 2011-08-14 |
Movie | National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard | Firs | 2011-06-30 |
Movie | The Night Watch | Horace Mundy | 2011-04-04 |
Movie | Made in Dagenham | Monty Taylor | 2010-10-01 |
Movie | Harold Pinter: A Celebration | 2010-01-24 | |
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 |
Movie | Valkyrie | Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel | 2008-12-25 |
Series | Merlin | Aulfric | 2008-09-20 |
Series | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Mr Clare | 2008-09-14 |
Series | Heroes and Villains | 2007-11-11 | |
Movie | Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea | Captain Turner | 2007-05-12 |
Movie | Hot Fuzz | James Reaper | 2007-02-14 |
Series | Lilies | Health Inspector | 2007-01-12 |
Movie | A Good Year | Sir Nigel | 2006-09-09 |
Series | The Line of Beauty | Sir Maurice Tipper | 2006-05-17 |
Movie | Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare | Narrator | 2006-05-05 |
Movie | The Lavender List | Harold Wilson | 2006-03-01 |
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 | The Genius of Mozart | Leopold Mozart | 2004-03-19 |
Series | Hustle | Unknown | 2004-02-24 |
Movie | Trauma | DC Jackson | 2004-09-17 |
Movie | Layer Cake | Jimmy Price | 2004-09-30 |
Movie | Sparkling Cyanide | George Barton | 2003-10-05 |
Movie | Blackball | Chairman Collins | 2003-05-18 |
Series | Murder Investigation Team | Unknown | 2003-05-03 |
Movie | Killing Hitler | Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies | 2003-03-30 |
Movie | Pollyanna | Mr. Pendleton | 2003-01-01 |
Movie | Two Men Went To War | Sgt. Peter King | 2002-11-01 |
Series | Believe Nothing | Unknown | 2002-07-14 |
Movie | Night Flight | 2002-02-02 | |
Movie | Women Talking Dirty | George | 2001-12-07 |
Movie | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades | Colonel Schmidt | 2000-07-12 |
Movie | Kevin & Perry Go Large | Vicar | 2000-04-20 |
Movie | Gangster No. 1 | Tommy | 2000-06-09 |
Movie | Lady Audley's Secret | 2000-05-17 | |
Movie | Born Romantic | Barney | 2000-09-14 |
Series | Sins | Unknown | 2000-10-24 |
Movie | Shiner | Gibson | 2000-09-22 |
Series | Without Motive | DCS Derek Henderson | 2000-10-02 |
Movie | The Last Yellow | Len | 1999-01-01 |
Movie | The Murder of Stephen Lawrence | Michael Mansfield QC | 1999-02-18 |
Movie | Vigo | The Producer | 1998-09-14 |
Movie | RPM | Biggerman | 1998-06-23 |
Series | Our Mutual Friend | 1998-03-09 | |
Movie | The Boxer | Matt MaGuire | 1997-12-31 |
Movie | Midnight Man | Brig. Charles Ferguson | 1997-08-20 |
Series | Dalziel & Pascoe | Tommy Collingwood | 1996-03-16 |
Movie | Bed of Roses | Simon | 1996-01-26 |
Movie | On Dangerous Ground | Brig. Charles Ferguson | 1996-05-13 |
Series | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Reverend Millward | 1996-11-17 |
Movie | Deep in the Heart | Robert Flaherty | 1996-10-10 |
Series | Kavanagh Q.C. | Unknown | 1995-01-03 |
Movie | Requiem Apache | Tony | 1994-10-11 |
Movie | Royal Celebration | Douglas | 1993-09-26 |
Movie | Tale of a Vampire | Edgar | 1993-02-05 |
Movie | Monkey Boy | Hennessey | 1992-12-31 |
Series | Between the Lines | Unknown | 1992-09-04 |
Series | Heartbeat | Unknown | 1992-04-10 |
Series | Murder Most Horrid | Unknown | 1991-11-14 |
Movie | Under Suspicion | Frank | 1991-09-27 |
Movie | Prospero's Books | Sebastian | 1991-08-30 |
Series | Chimera | Hennessey | 1991-07-07 |
Series | Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit | Pastor Finch | 1990-01-10 |
Movie | A Master of the Marionettes | Teddy | 1989-04-18 |
Movie | Just Another Secret | Brosch | 1989-01-01 |
Movie | Stealing Heaven | Vice Chancellor Suger | 1988-05-20 |
Movie | Chocolat | Boothby | 1988-05-18 |
Movie | The Black and Blue Lamp | 1988-09-07 | |
Movie | Hellbound: Hellraiser II | Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite | 1988-12-23 |
Movie | The Birthday Party | Stanley Webber | 1987-06-21 |
Series | Inspector Morse | Unknown | 1987-01-06 |
Movie | Making Waves | 1987-01-01 | |
Series | A Sort of Innocence | 1986-12-01 | |
Series | Casualty | James Lawrence | 1986-09-06 |
Series | Lovejoy | Unknown | 1986-01-10 |
Movie | Dead Man's Folly | Insp. Bland | 1986-01-08 |
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 Caretaker | Aston | 1981-06-07 |
Movie | The Sin Bin | Alan Grieves | 1981-03-17 |
Movie | Donkeys' Years | Bill Taylor | 1980-01-01 |
Series | Thérèse Raquin | Camille Raquin | 1980-03-12 |
Movie | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | Giovanni | 1980-05-07 |
Movie | The Merchant of Venice | Gratiano | 1980-12-17 |
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 |
Series | Crown Court | Unknown | 1972-10-11 |
Series | Van der Valk | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
Movie | Brother Sun, Sister Moon | Paolo | 1972-03-03 |
Series | Budgie | Unknown | 1971-04-09 |
Movie | Fragment of Fear | Joe | 1970-09-03 |
Movie | All the Way Up | 1970-06-01 | |
Movie | Otley | Kid | 1969-03-11 |
Movie | Oliver! | Noah Claypole | 1968-09-26 |