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