Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 12, 1944
Place of Birth
Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
Credits
173 titles
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
Filmography
Finding Alice
Gerry
Trying
Barry
Mr. Jones
Lloyd George
Official Secrets
Judge Hyam
Hatton Garden
Brian Reader
The Spanish Princess
John Morton
Born a King
Lord Curzon
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Leopold Czihaczek
Bancroft
Charlie Haverstock
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Himself
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Joe Turner
Strike
Dennis Creed
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
The Host
The White Princess
John Morton
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Dean Smith
War and Peace
Uncle Mikhail
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
Maleficent
King Henry
37 Days
John Burns
Inside No. 9
Rupert
The Legend of Hercules
Lucius
Closed Circuit
Cameron Fischer
Flying Blind
Victor
In the Flesh
Vicar Oddie
Panto!
Jerry
Suspension of Disbelief
Bullock
Death in Paradise
Father John
Graffiti Wars
Narrator (Voice)
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Firs
5 Days of War
Michael Stilton
The Night Watch
Horace Mundy
Upstairs Downstairs
Sgt Ashworth
Made in Dagenham
Monty Taylor
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
MJ O'Loughlin
Moving On
Mike
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
W H Auden
Valkyrie
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Merlin
Aulfric
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Mr Clare
Heroes and Villains
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
General Carteaux
The Man from Montevideo
Gary Solway
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Captain Turner
Hot Fuzz
James Reaper
Lilies
A Good Year
Sir Nigel
The Line of Beauty
Sir Maurice Tipper
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Narrator
The Chatterley Affair
Older Keith