Kenneth Cranham
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
165
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-12-12 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
Kenneth Cranham
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.
Known For
Midsomer Murders
Death in Paradise
Agatha Christie's Marple
Coronation Street
Minder
Merlin
Heartbeat
Casualty
Rome
Inside No. 9
Inspector Morse
Play for Today
Play for Today
Maleficent
BBC Play of the Month
Natural World
New Tricks
Hustle
Crown Court
War and Peace
Strike
The Spanish Princess
Hot Fuzz
Van der Valk
Otley
Trauma
Shiner
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Moving On
Dalziel & Pascoe
Panto!
Trying
The Party
Blackball
Bed of Roses
The White Princess
Vigo
Valkyrie
The Last Yellow
Made in Dagenham
Lovejoy
The Merchant of Venice
The Line of Beauty
Vampira
Kavanagh Q.C.
RPM
Between the Lines
Lady Windermere's Fan
Donkeys' Years
Layer Cake
Night Flight
Women Talking Dirty
Suspension of Disbelief
The Caretaker
Brideshead Revisited
Enemy at the Door
Shine on Harvey Moon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Murder Most Horrid
The Legend of Hercules
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Sparkling Cyanide
A Good Year
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Budgie
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Killing Hitler
In the Flesh
Oliver!
The Sin Bin
Official Secrets
Graffiti Wars
Robin and Marian
The Play on One
The Play on One
Murder Investigation Team
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Our Mutual Friend
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Bancroft
Closed Circuit
From a Bird's Eye View
Mr. Jones
5 Days of War
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Hatton Garden
Finding Alice
Heroes and Villains
Danger UXB
Danger UXB
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Chimera
Gangster No. 1
Theatre Night
The Boxer
Believe Nothing
Dead Man's Folly
Just Another Secret
Under Suspicion
Lilies
Lilies
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Born a King
Prospero's Books
Chocolat
37 Days
The Bell
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
The Night Watch
Rules of Engagement
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Therese Raquin
Up Pompeii
Dickens
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Born Romantic
Stealing Heaven
The Genius of Mozart
Joseph Andrews
Fragment of Fear
The Changeling
Without Motive
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
A Sort of Innocence
Two Men Went To War
Midnight Man
Pollyanna
Tale of a Vampire
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
Flying Blind
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Man Dancin'
Royal Celebration
Lady Audley's Secret
The Chatterley Affair
On Dangerous Ground
Monkey Boy
Sling Your Hook
Requiem Apache
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
The Birthday Party
Deep in the Heart
Joe Orton Laid Bare
The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
The Vision Thing
Achilles Heel
A Master of the Marionettes
The Lavender List
Normal Service
The Voynich Mystery
All the Way Up
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
A Little Bit of Lippy
The Black and Blue Lamp
The Man from Montevideo
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Butterflies Don't Count
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
Death of a Private
Making Waves
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
