Kenneth Cranham
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1944-12-12 (80 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
Acting
(2019)
Official Secrets
as Judge Hyam
(2019)
Born a King
as Lord Curzon
(2019)
Mr. Jones
as Lloyd George
(2018)
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
as Leopold Czihaczek
(2017)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joe Turner
(2017)
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
as The Host
(2017)
Joe Orton Laid Bare
as Himself
(2015)
(2014)
Maleficent
as King Henry
(2014)
The Legend of Hercules
as Lucius
(2013)
Closed Circuit
as Cameron Fischer
(2013)
Flying Blind
as Victor
(2012)
Panto!
as Jerry
(2012)
Suspension of Disbelief
as Bullock
(2011)
(2011)
The Night Watch
as Horace Mundy
(2011)
5 Days of War
as Michael Stilton
(2011)
Graffiti Wars
as Narrator (Voice)
(2010)
Made in Dagenham
as Monty Taylor
(2010)
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
(2009)
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as MJ O'Loughlin
(2008)
Valkyrie
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
(2007)
Hot Fuzz
as James Reaper
(2007)
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
as Captain Turner
(2007)
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
as General Carteaux
(2007)
The Man from Montevideo
as Gary Solway
(2006)
A Good Year
as Sir Nigel
(2006)
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
as Narrator
(2006)
The Lavender List
as Harold Wilson
(2004)
Layer Cake
as Jimmy Price
(2004)
Man Dancin'
as D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
(2004)
Trauma
as DC Jackson
(2004)
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
as Narrator
(2003)
Blackball
as Chairman Collins
(2003)
Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
(2003)
Killing Hitler
as Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
(2003)
Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendleton
(2002)
Night Flight
as Ted Atwell
(2002)
Two Men Went To War
as Sgt. Peter King
(2002)
The Voynich Mystery
as Narrator
(2001)
Women Talking Dirty
as George
(2000)
Gangster No. 1
as Tommy
(2000)
Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Vicar
(2000)
(2000)
Born Romantic
as Barney
(2000)
Shiner
as Gibson
(2000)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Colonel Schmidt
(2000)
Lady Audley's Secret
as Sir Michael Audley
(1999)
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
as Michael Mansfield QC
(1999)
The Last Yellow
as Len
(1998)
Vigo
as The Producer
(1998)
RPM
as Biggerman
(1997)
Midnight Man
as Brigadier Charles Ferguson
(1997)
The Boxer
as Matt MaGuire
(1996)
On Dangerous Ground
as Brigadier Charles Ferguson
(1996)
Bed of Roses
as Simon
(1996)
Deep in the Heart
as Robert Flaherty
(1994)
Requiem Apache
as Tony
(1993)
Royal Celebration
as Douglas
(1993)
The Vision Thing
as Dick Naughton
(1993)
Tale of a Vampire
as Edgar
(1992)
Monkey Boy
as Hennessey
(1992)
A Little Bit of Lippy
as Reggie Titherington
(1991)
Prospero's Books
as Sebastian
(1991)
Under Suspicion
as Frank Vance
(1989)
A Master of the Marionettes
as Teddy
(1989)
Just Another Secret
as Brosch
(1988)
Chocolat
as Jonathan Boothby
(1988)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
(1988)
The Party
as Joe Shawcross
(1988)
Stealing Heaven
as Vice Chancellor Suger
(1988)
The Black and Blue Lamp
as Supt. Cherry
(1988)
Normal Service
as Peter
(1987)
The Birthday Party
as Stanley Webber
(1987)
Making Waves
as Joe Nash
(1986)
Dead Man's Folly
as Insp. Bland
(1985)
Lady Windermere's Fan
as Lord Darlington
(1985)
The Dumb Waiter
as Gus
(1981)
The Sin Bin
as Alan Grieves
(1981)
The Caretaker
as Aston
(1980)
The Merchant of Venice
as Gratiano
(1980)
Donkeys' Years
as Bill Taylor
(1980)
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
as Giovanni
(1978)
Butterflies Don't Count
as Tom
(1977)
Joseph Andrews
as The Wicked Squire
(1976)
Robin and Marian
as Jack's Apprentice
(1974)
Vampira
as Paddy
(1974)
The Changeling
as Antonio
(1973)
Achilles Heel
as Gordon
(1972)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Paolo
(1971)
Up Pompeii
as Christian
(1970)
Fragment of Fear
as Joe
(1970)
All the Way Up
as Tom Midway
(1969)
Sling Your Hook
as Roland
(1969)
Otley
as Kid
(1968)
Oliver!
as Noah Claypole
(1967)
Death of a Private
as Young intellectual