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.
168 acting credits
Acting · 168
Midsomer Murders
1997
Death in Paradise
2011
Coronation Street
1960
Casualty
1986
Play for Today
1970
Crown Court
1972
Minder
1979
Heartbeat
1992
Merlin
2008
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
Hustle
2004
New Tricks
2004
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Natural World
1983
Inspector Morse
1987
Rome
2005
Inside No. 9
2014
ITV Playhouse
1967
Strike
2017
Maleficent
2014
Lovejoy
1986
Moving On
2009
Between the Lines
1992
Van der Valk
1972
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
The Spanish Princess
2019
Murder Most Horrid
1991
War and Peace
2016
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995
Hot Fuzz
2007
ScreenPlay
1986
Trying
2020
Enemy at the Door
1978
Strangers
1978
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982
The White Princess
2017
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983
Valkyrie
2008
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
Budgie
1971
The Play on One
1988
Bancroft
2017
Brideshead Revisited
1981
Danger UXB
1979
A Good Year
2006
Murder Investigation Team
2003
In the Flesh
2013
Layer Cake
2004
The Line of Beauty
2006
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008
Theatre Night
1985
New Scotland Yard
1972
The Legend of Hercules
2014
Heroes and Villains
2007
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988
Our Mutual Friend
1998
Cribb
1980
Hatton Garden
2019
Oliver!
1968
Official Secrets
2019
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996
Finding Alice
2021
Lilies
2007
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017
Chimera
1991
Closed Circuit
2013
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990
37 Days
2014
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016
Without Motive
2000
The Boxer
1997
Made in Dagenham
2010
Dickens
2002
Mr. Jones
2019
Therese Raquin
1980
Believe Nothing
2002
Bed of Roses
1996
From a Bird's Eye View
1970
5 Days of War
2011
Rules of Engagement
1989
Kevin & Perry Go Large
2000
Dead Man's Folly
1986
Gangster No. 1
2000
Robin and Marian
1976
Lady Audley's Secret
2000
Under Suspicion
1991
Vigo
1998
The Bell
1982
Trauma
2004
Chocolat
1988
Sparkling Cyanide
2003
Shiner
2000
Born a King
2019
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
2009
The Genius of Mozart
2004
The Night Watch
2011
Women Talking Dirty
2001
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
2006
RPM
1998
Blackball
2003
Two Men Went To War
2002
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
2005
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972
Otley
1969
Pollyanna
2003
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
2011
Prospero's Books
1991
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2015
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1999
Midnight Man
1997
Vampira
1974
Up Pompeii
1971
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010
Night Flight
2002
The Changeling
1974
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
2007
Just Another Secret
1989
Requiem Apache
1994
Stealing Heaven
1988
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009
Joseph Andrews
1977
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
2000
Monkey Boy
1992
Born Romantic
2000
Fragment of Fear
1970
On Dangerous Ground
1996
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
2007
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018
Tale of a Vampire
1993
A Sort of Innocence
1986
Man Dancin'
2004
Suspension of Disbelief
2012
Flying Blind
2013
The Chatterley Affair
2006
The Merchant of Venice
1980
A Master of the Marionettes
1989
Joe Orton Laid Bare
2017
Normal Service
1988
The Party
1988
All the Way Up
1970
The Birthday Party
1987
Royal Celebration
1993
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1980
The Lavender List
2006
A Little Bit of Lippy
1992
The Last Yellow
1999
Killing Hitler
2003
The Vision Thing
1993
Achilles Heel
1973
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988
Deep in the Heart
1996
Panto!
2012
Making Waves
1987
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
1982
Graffiti Wars
2011
Donkeys' Years
1980
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
2004
The Sin Bin
1981
Sling Your Hook
1969
The Man from Montevideo
2007
Butterflies Don't Count
1978
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
2017
The Dumb Waiter
1985
Lady Windermere's Fan
1985
Death of a Private
1967
The Voynich Mystery
2002
The Caretaker
1981