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.
Known for
Midsomer Murders
Jude Langham
Death in Paradise
Father John
Coronation Street
Roy
Agatha Christie's Marple
Rex Fortescue
Merlin
Aulfric
Rome
Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
Casualty
James Lawrence
Heartbeat
Charlie Wallace
War and Peace
Uncle Mikhail
Minder
Walter
Maleficent
King Henry
Hustle
Francis Owen
Play for Today
Alan Grieves
Play for Today
Tom
Inspector Morse
Cedric Downes
Crown Court
John Tucker
Inside No. 9
Rupert
New Tricks
Strike
Dennis Creed
Under Suspicion
Frank Vance
Natural World
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
Colonel Schmidt
BBC Play of the Month
Antonio
Shine on Harvey Moon
Harvey Moon
The Spanish Princess
John Morton
Dalziel & Pascoe
Tommy Collingwood
Making Waves
Joe Nash
Valkyrie
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Hot Fuzz
James Reaper
Van der Valk
Dirk Boutsen
Lovejoy
Litvak
Trying
Barry
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
The White Princess
John Morton
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Vicar
Moving On
Mike
Born a King
Lord Curzon
Dead Man's Folly
Insp. Bland
Layer Cake
Jimmy Price
Killing Hitler
Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Giovanni
Oliver!
Noah Claypole
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Narrator
Kavanagh Q.C.
Roy Lawrence
Gangster No. 1
Tommy
On Dangerous Ground
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Robin and Marian
Jack's Apprentice
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Himself
Prospero's Books
Sebastian
Sling Your Hook
Roland
Deep in the Heart
Robert Flaherty
The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber
Midnight Man
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
A Good Year
Sir Nigel
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Captain Turner
Born Romantic
Barney
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
General Carteaux
Vigo
The Producer
Just Another Secret
Brosch
The Last Yellow
Len
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
Vampira
Paddy
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
The Black and Blue Lamp
Supt. Cherry
Shiner
Gibson
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Firs
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Reverend Michael Millward
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Mr Clare
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Leopold Czihaczek
Between the Lines
The Party
Joe Shawcross
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Paolo
The Legend of Hercules
Lucius
The Caretaker
Aston
The Vision Thing
Dick Naughton
Trauma
DC Jackson
Brideshead Revisited
Sergeant Block
Bed of Roses
Simon
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
Murder Most Horrid
Inspector Salford
Suspension of Disbelief
Bullock
Official Secrets
Judge Hyam
Bancroft
Charlie Haverstock
Graffiti Wars
Narrator (Voice)
A Master of the Marionettes
Teddy
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Pastor Finch
Enemy at the Door
Jack Foster
Mr. Jones
Lloyd George
Made in Dagenham
Monty Taylor
Reilly: Ace of Spies
Lenin
Budgie
Inky Ballantine
The Sin Bin
Alan Grieves
Murder Investigation Team
Ray Morgan
Blackball
Chairman Collins
In the Flesh
Vicar Oddie
Night Flight
Ted Atwell
Women Talking Dirty
George
The Play on One
Joe Shawcross
The Play on One
Peter
The Line of Beauty
Sir Maurice Tipper
Lilies
Lilies
Health Inspector
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Hatton Garden
Brian Reader
Otley
Kid
Heroes and Villains
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington
Panto!
Jerry
Donkeys' Years
Bill Taylor
5 Days of War
Michael Stilton
Danger UXB
Sapper Salt
Danger UXB
L / Corporal Salt
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Joe Turner
Our Mutual Friend
Silas Wegg
Rules of Engagement
Martin Goodman
Closed Circuit
Cameron Fischer
The Boxer
Matt MaGuire
Fragment of Fear
Joe
The Night Watch
Horace Mundy
The Merchant of Venice
Gratiano
Finding Alice
Gerry
Therese Raquin
Camille Raquin
Believe Nothing
DI Aldiss
Chimera
Hennessey
Sins
Gilbert
Chocolat
Jonathan Boothby
37 Days
John Burns
The Voynich Mystery
Narrator
From a Bird's Eye View
Tim O'Donovan
Joseph Andrews
The Wicked Squire
Theatre Night
Stanley
The Genius of Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Flying Blind
Victor
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Michael Mansfield QC
Without Motive
DCS Derek Henderson
Pollyanna
Mr. Pendleton
Requiem Apache
Tony
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
W H Auden
The Bell
Nick Fawley
Dickens
John Forster
Stealing Heaven
Vice Chancellor Suger
A Sort of Innocence
Up Pompeii
Christian
RPM
Biggerman
The Changeling
Antonio
Two Men Went To War
Sgt. Peter King
Monkey Boy
Hennessey
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Da
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
MJ O'Loughlin
All the Way Up
Tom Midway
Royal Celebration
Douglas
Lady Audley's Secret
Sir Michael Audley
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Colonel Schmidt
Tale of a Vampire
Edgar
Achilles Heel
Gordon
The Dumb Waiter
Gus
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
The Host
The Lavender List
Harold Wilson
Normal Service
Peter
Man Dancin'
D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
Narrator
Butterflies Don't Count
Tom
Death of a Private
Young intellectual
The Man from Montevideo
Gary Solway
A Little Bit of Lippy
Reggie Titherington