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