
Kenneth Cranham
Acting
🎂 1944-12-12
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.
Cast credits(164)

Jude Langham
1997

Father John
2011

Rex Fortescue
2004

Alan Grieves
1970

Aulfric
2008

James Lawrence
1986

Walter
1979

Roy
1960

Charlie Wallace
1992

Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
2005

John Tucker
1972

Antonio
1965

Rupert
2014

1983

Cedric Downes
1987

King Henry
2014

2004

Francis Owen
2004

Barry
2020

Dennis Creed
2017

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
2008

James Reaper
2007

Tommy Collingwood
1996

1992

Uncle Mikhail
2016

Dirk Boutsen
1972

John Morton
2017

John Morton
2019

Joe Turner
2017

Mike
2009

Roy Lawrence
1995

Colonel Schmidt
1992

Litvak
1986

Jimmy Price
2004

Edgar
1993

Ted Atwell
2002

MJ O'Loughlin
2009

Lenin
1983

Lucius
2014

Gary Solway
2007

Inspector Salford
1991

Narrator
2006

Sir Nigel
2006

Brigadier Charles Ferguson
1996

Brigadier Charles Ferguson
1997

Lord Curzon
2019

Sergeant Block
1981

Tommy
2000

Jack's Apprentice
1976

Noah Claypole
1968

Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
1988

Joe Shawcross
1988

Peter
1988

Michael Stilton
2011

Judge Hyam
2019

Sebastian
1991

Inky Ballantine
1971

Matt MaGuire
1997

Paolo
1972

Douglas
1993

Vicar
2000

Narrator (Voice)
2011

Lloyd George
2019

Roland
1969

Aston
1981

Frank Vance
1991

Lord Darlington
1985

Jack Foster
1978

Mr Clare
2008

Cameron Fischer
2013

Chairman Collins
2003

Vice Chancellor Suger
1988

Ray Morgan
2003

The Producer
1998

Harvey Moon
1982

Monty Taylor
2010

Pastor Finch
1990

Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
2003

Leopold Czihaczek
2018

Insp. Bland
1986

Charlie Haverstock
2017

Firs
2011

DC Jackson
2004

Jonathan Boothby
1988

Vicar Oddie
2013

Alan Grieves
1981

Sir Maurice Tipper
2006

Joe Shawcross
1988

General Carteaux
2007

Mr. Pendleton
2003

Gerry
2021

Narrator
2004

Sir Michael Audley
2000

Da
2000

Sgt. Peter King
2002

Brosch
1989

Tony
1994

Sapper Salt
1979

L / Corporal Salt
1979

Himself
2017

Christian
1971

Narrator
2002

Teddy
1989

Captain Turner
2007

1998

The Host
2017

The Wicked Squire
1977

Joe
1970

Peter
1988
D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
2004
Harold Wilson
2006
Stanley
1985
Young intellectual
1967

Gordon
1973

Brian Reader
2019

Self
2010

Antonio
1974

Gilbert
2000

Dick Naughton
1993

Tom Midway
1970

Joe Nash
1987

Michael Mansfield QC
1999

Reggie Titherington
1992

Victor
2013

Paddy
1974

Horace Mundy
2011

Gibson
2000

Reverend Millward
1996

John Burns
2014

Kid
1969

Stanley Webber
1987

Jerry
2012

2007

Hennessey
1992

Tom
1978

2007

Health Inspector
2007

2016
Len
1999

George Barton
2003

Tim O'Donovan
1970

Barney
2000

Bullock
2012

Self
2015

Gus
1985

George
2001

Colonel Schmidt
2000

1988

Simon
1996

Robert Flaherty
1996

Hennessey
1991

Gratiano
1980

Camille Raquin
1980

DI Aldiss
2002
Bill Taylor
1980

Biggerman
1998

DCS Derek Henderson
2000
Martin Goodman
1989

2002
1986

Leopold Mozart
2004
Nick Fawley
1982
W H Auden
2009

Giovanni
1980