Kenneth Cranham
Acting
Born 1944-12-12
Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
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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.
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Acting
58 credits
Midsomer Murders
Coronation Street
Death in Paradise
Play for Today
Casualty
Agatha Christie's Marple
Trying
Merlin
Minder
Crown Court
Heartbeat
Hustle
BBC Play of the Month
Rome
Inspector Morse
Inside No. 9
Van der Valk
ITV Playhouse
Maleficent
Strike
Dalziel and Pascoe
ScreenPlay
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The Spanish Princess
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Lovejoy
Between the Lines
Hot Fuzz
War and Peace
Moving On
The White Princess
Murder Most Horrid
Reilly: Ace of Spies
The Play on One
A Good Year
Kavanagh Q.C.
Strangers
Brideshead Revisited
New Scotland Yard
Shine on Harvey Moon
Upstairs Downstairs
Valkyrie
Layer Cake
Budgie
Under Suspicion
Mr. Jones
Official Secrets
Enemy at the Door
The Legend of Hercules
Bancroft
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
In the Flesh
Danger UXB
Oliver!
Cribb
Murder Investigation Team
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