Acting
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.
Midsomer Murders
1997 · TV
Coronation Street
1960 · TV
Death in Paradise
2011 · TV
Play for Today
1970 · TV
Casualty
1986 · TV
Natural World
1983 · TV
Heartbeat
1992 · TV
Crown Court
1972 · TV
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · TV
Minder
1979 · TV
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004 · TV
Merlin
2008 · TV
ITV Playhouse
1967 · TV
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · TV
Trying
2020 · TV
Rome
2005 · TV
New Tricks
2004 · TV
Hustle
2004 · TV
ScreenPlay
1986 · TV
Inside No. 9
2014 · TV
Inspector Morse
1987 · TV
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · TV
Lovejoy
1986 · TV
Strike
2017 · TV
Maleficent
2014 · Movie
New Scotland Yard
1972 · TV
Moving On
2009 · TV
Van der Valk
1972 · TV
War and Peace
2016 · TV
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992 · TV
The Spanish Princess
2019 · TV
Between the Lines
1992 · TV
The Play on One
1988 · TV
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Movie
Strangers
1978 · TV
Murder Most Horrid
1991 · TV
The White Princess
2017 · TV
Shine on Harvey Moon
1982 · TV
Kavanagh Q.C.
1995 · TV
Upstairs Downstairs
2010 · TV
Enemy at the Door
1978 · TV
Valkyrie
2008 · Movie
Budgie
1971 · TV
Reilly: Ace of Spies
1983 · TV
Brideshead Revisited
1981 · TV
Layer Cake
2004 · Movie
A Good Year
2006 · Movie
Danger UXB
1979 · TV
The Legend of Hercules
2014 · Movie
Theatre Night
1985 · TV
In the Flesh
2013 · TV
Murder Investigation Team
2003 · TV
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2008 · TV
The Line of Beauty
2006 · TV
Bancroft
2017 · TV
Official Secrets
2019 · Movie
Oliver!
1968 · Movie
Our Mutual Friend
1998 · TV
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988 · Movie
Believe Nothing
2002 · TV
Heroes and Villains
2007 · TV
Cribb
1980 · TV
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
1990 · TV
Lilies
2007 · TV
Finding Alice
2021 · TV
Boy Meets Girl
1967 · TV
Chimera
1991 · TV
Hatton Garden
2019 · TV
From a Bird's Eye View
1970 · TV
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996 · TV
37 Days
2014 · TV
Under Suspicion
1991 · Movie
5 Days of War
2011 · Movie
Robin and Marian
1976 · Movie
Mr. Jones
2019 · Movie
Closed Circuit
2013 · Movie
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
2016 · TV
Kevin & Perry Go Large
2000 · Movie
Therese Raquin
1980 · TV
Made in Dagenham
2010 · Movie
Without Motive
2000 · TV
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
1972 · Movie
Gangster No. 1
2000 · Movie
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
2017 · Movie
The Boxer
1997 · Movie
Killing Hitler
2003 · Movie
Suspension of Disbelief
2012 · Movie
The Chatterley Affair
2006 · Movie
Rules of Engagement
1989 · TV
Dickens
2002 · TV
Dead Man's Folly
1986 · Movie
Blackball
2003 · Movie
Graffiti Wars
2011 · Movie
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
2006 · Movie
Stealing Heaven
1988 · Movie
Chocolat
1988 · Movie
Women Talking Dirty
2001 · Movie
Bed of Roses
1996 · Movie
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
2005 · Movie
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
2010 · Movie
The Night Watch
2011 · Movie
The Merchant of Venice
1980 · Movie
Vampira
1974 · Movie
Sparkling Cyanide
2003 · Movie
Lady Audley's Secret
2000 · Movie
Trauma
2004 · Movie
The Genius of Mozart
2004 · TV
Two Men Went To War
2002 · Movie
The Party
1988 · Movie
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
2007 · Movie
Prospero's Books
1991 · Movie
The Caretaker
1981 · Movie
Lady Windermere's Fan
1985 · Movie
Fragment of Fear
1970 · Movie
On Dangerous Ground
1996 · Movie
Vigo
1998 · Movie
Pollyanna
2003 · Movie
Born Romantic
2000 · Movie
Joseph Andrews
1977 · Movie
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988 · Movie
The Birthday Party
1987 · Movie
The Sin Bin
1981 · Movie
Flying Blind
2013 · Movie
Butterflies Don't Count
1978 · Movie
Up Pompeii
1971 · Movie
Tale of a Vampire
1993 · Movie
Midnight Man
1997 · Movie
Shiner
2000 · Movie
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
2009 · Movie
RPM
1998 · Movie
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
1999 · Movie
Requiem Apache
1994 · Movie
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
2000 · Movie
The Vision Thing
1993 · Movie
Born a King
2019 · Movie
The Man from Montevideo
2007 · Movie
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
2007 · Movie
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
1980 · Movie
The Changeling
1974 · Movie
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
2000 · Movie
Royal Celebration
1993 · Movie
A Little Bit of Lippy
1992 · Movie
The Voynich Mystery
2002 · Movie
Monkey Boy
1992 · Movie
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
2018 · Movie
Joe Orton Laid Bare
2017 · Movie
Just Another Secret
1989 · Movie
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
2015 · Movie
Death of a Private
1967 · Movie
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
2017 · Movie
All the Way Up
1970 · Movie
The Dumb Waiter
1985 · Movie
Otley
1969 · Movie
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
2011 · Movie
Deep in the Heart
1996 · Movie
Achilles Heel
1973 · Movie
A Master of the Marionettes
1989 · Movie
Sling Your Hook
1969 · Movie
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
2004 · Movie
Normal Service
1988 · Movie
Making Waves
1987 · Movie
Panto!
2012 · Movie
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
1982 · Movie
