Kenneth Cranham

Acting · 1.3 popularity

Age

Movies

101

Born: December 12, 1944
From: Dunfermline - Scotland - UK

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.

Works

101 films

Maleficent

20147.1

Hot Fuzz

20077.6

A Good Year

20066.7

Layer Cake

20046.9

Valkyrie

20087.0

Mr. Jones

20196.7

Under Suspicion

19915.9

Oliver!

19687.0

The Legend of Hercules

20144.8

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

19886.4

Official Secrets

20197.2

The Boxer

19976.7

5 Days of War

20115.7

Closed Circuit

20135.9

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

20176.4

Made in Dagenham

20106.7

Robin and Marian

19766.3

Kevin & Perry Go Large

20005.0

Chocolat

19886.9

Bed of Roses

19965.9

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

19727.0

Gangster No. 1

20006.4

Killing Hitler

20036.5

Suspension of Disbelief

20124.2

Stealing Heaven

19886.2

Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare

20065.6

Blackball

20035.2

Dead Man's Folly

19866.4

Graffiti Wars

20116.0

The Party

1988

The Night Watch

20115.8

Pollyanna

20038.4

Donkeys' Years

1980

Women Talking Dirty

20015.3

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

20108.0

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

20076.3

Mangal Pandey - The Rising

20056.0

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

19996.8

Otley

19696.3

Born Romantic

20006.0

Trauma

20045.2

Vampira

19745.2

The Merchant of Venice

19807.3

Vigo

19985.1

Prospero's Books

19916.8

Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II

20156.4

Shiner

20005.4

Sparkling Cyanide

20035.0

Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires

2018

RPM

19983.3

Fragment of Fear

19705.9

The Sin Bin

1981

The Most Fertile Man in Ireland

20005.7

Up Pompeii

19716.1

Midnight Man

19975.5

Born a King

20197.4

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

20097.3

Joseph Andrews

19775.2

Two Men Went To War

20026.7

Lady Windermere's Fan

19859.0

The Caretaker

1981

Night Flight

20027.5

Lady Audley's Secret

20004.6

The Black and Blue Lamp

1988

The Chatterley Affair

20065.3

The Birthday Party

19876.8

All the Way Up

19707.0

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

19806.0

On Dangerous Ground

19965.1

The Voynich Mystery

2002

The Changeling

19748.5

Flying Blind

20134.8

Man Dancin'

20044.3

Tale of a Vampire

19935.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

20005.5

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon

2007

Joe Orton Laid Bare

2017

Just Another Secret

19899.0

The Last Yellow

19997.5

Panto!

2012

Butterflies Don't Count

197810.0

Sling Your Hook

19698.0

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

20118.5

Requiem Apache

19947.5

Monkey Boy

1992

A Master of the Marionettes

1989

Royal Celebration

19937.5

The Man from Montevideo

2007

Justice in Wonderland

2000

A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton

1982

Achilles Heel

19731.0

A Little Bit of Lippy

19929.0

Making Waves

19876.8

The Lavender List

2006

The Dumb Waiter

19858.0

Death of a Private

19679.0

Deep in the Heart

19968.0

Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer

2017

Normal Service

198810.0

The Vision Thing

1993

Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome

20047.5