Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

Birthday: 1944-12-12

Place of birth: Dunfermline - Scotland - UK

Also known as: Ken Cranham , Кеннет Крэнем

imdb_id: nm0186469

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.

Played in movies:

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

Score: 10.0

Pollyanna

Score: 8.4

The Dumb Waiter

Score: 8.0

Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome

Score: 7.8

Born a King

Score: 7.6

Hot Fuzz

Score: 7.6

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

Score: 7.3

Official Secrets

Score: 7.2

Maleficent

Score: 7.1

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Score: 7.0

Oliver!

Score: 7.0

The Merchant of Venice

Score: 7.0

Requiem Apache

Score: 7.0

The Changeling

Score: 7.0

Valkyrie

Score: 6.9

Layer Cake

Score: 6.9

Chocolat

Score: 6.9

Prospero's Books

Score: 6.8

Mr. Jones

Score: 6.8

The Boxer

Score: 6.7

The Birthday Party

Score: 6.7

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

Score: 6.7

A Good Year

Score: 6.7

Made in Dagenham

Score: 6.7

Making Waves

Score: 6.5

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Score: 6.4

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

Score: 6.4

Stealing Heaven

Score: 6.4

Gangster No. 1

Score: 6.4

Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Score: 6.4

Two Men Went To War

Score: 6.3

Robin and Marian

Score: 6.3

Up Pompeii

Score: 6.2

Otley

Score: 6.2

Dead Man's Folly

Score: 6.1

Born Romantic

Score: 6.1

The Last Yellow

Score: 6.0

Night Flight

Score: 6.0

Graffiti Wars

Score: 6.0

All the Way Up

Score: 6.0

Royal Celebration

Score: 6.0

Closed Circuit

Score: 5.9

Fragment of Fear

Score: 5.9

The Night Watch

Score: 5.9

Under Suspicion

Score: 5.9

Killing Hitler

Score: 5.8

Bed of Roses

Score: 5.8

The Most Fertile Man in Ireland

Score: 5.7

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

Score: 5.7

Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare

Score: 5.7

Shiner

Score: 5.6

Tale of a Vampire

Score: 5.4

Blackball

Score: 5.3

Trauma

Score: 5.2

Vampira

Score: 5.2

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

Score: 5.1

Kevin & Perry Go Large

Score: 5.0

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

Score: 5.0

Flying Blind

Score: 5.0

Women Talking Dirty

Score: 5.0

Vigo

Score: 4.8

Midnight Man

Score: 4.8

On Dangerous Ground

Score: 4.8

The Legend of Hercules

Score: 4.8

Joseph Andrews

Score: 4.7

Sparkling Cyanide

Score: 4.6

Suspension of Disbelief

Score: 4.3

Lady Audley's Secret

Score: 3.5

RPM

Score: 3.0

Man Dancin'

Score: 1.5

Achilles Heel

Score: 1.0

The Voynich Mystery

Score: 0.0

The Party

Score: 0.0

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon

Score: 0.0

Butterflies Don't Count

Score: 0.0

Joe Orton Laid Bare

Score: 0.0

Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer

Score: 0.0

Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires

Score: 0.0

The Sin Bin

Score: 0.0

The Caretaker

Score: 0.0

Deep in the Heart

Score: 0.0

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

Score: 0.0

Lady Windermere's Fan

Score: 0.0

The Black and Blue Lamp

Score: 0.0

Donkeys' Years

Score: 0.0

Panto!

Score: 0.0

Monkey Boy

Score: 0.0

The Lavender List

Score: 0.0

Just Another Secret

Score: 0.0

A Little Bit of Lippy

Score: 0.0

Normal Service

Score: 0.0

A Master of the Marionettes

Score: 0.0

Death of a Private

Score: 0.0

Sling Your Hook

Score: 0.0

The Vision Thing

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Rome

Score: 8.3

Inside No. 9

Score: 8.0

Danger UXB

Score: 8.0

Danger UXB

Score: 8.0

Brideshead Revisited

Score: 8.0

Merlin

Score: 7.8

The White Princess

Score: 7.8

Inspector Morse

Score: 7.8

Enemy at the Door

Score: 7.8

Our Mutual Friend

Score: 7.7

Trying

Score: 7.7

Agatha Christie's Marple

Score: 7.7

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Score: 7.6

Hustle

Score: 7.6

War and Peace

Score: 7.6

Shine on Harvey Moon

Score: 7.6

The Spanish Princess

Score: 7.6

Midsomer Murders

Score: 7.5

Death in Paradise

Score: 7.5

Lilies

Score: 7.5

Lilies

Score: 7.5

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Score: 7.4

37 Days

Score: 7.3

New Tricks

Score: 7.3

Lovejoy

Score: 7.3

In the Flesh

Score: 7.2

Strike

Score: 7.1

Moving On

Score: 7.1

Natural World

Score: 7.1

Reilly: Ace of Spies

Score: 7.0

Heroes and Villains

Score: 7.0

Kavanagh Q.C.

Score: 7.0

Heartbeat

Score: 7.0

Budgie

Score: 7.0

Minder

Score: 6.8

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Score: 6.7

Believe Nothing

Score: 6.7

Bancroft

Score: 6.7

Bergerac

Score: 6.6

Murder Most Horrid

Score: 6.6

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

Score: 6.5

The Line of Beauty

Score: 6.4

Dalziel & Pascoe

Score: 6.4

Play for Today

Score: 6.3

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

Score: 6.2

The Play on One

Score: 6.0

The Play on One

Score: 6.0

Casualty

Score: 6.0

Without Motive

Score: 6.0

Chimera

Score: 6.0

Therese Raquin

Score: 5.9

Van der Valk

Score: 5.8

Hatton Garden

Score: 5.7

Between the Lines

Score: 5.6

From a Bird's Eye View

Score: 5.5

Murder Investigation Team

Score: 5.5

Finding Alice

Score: 5.5

Crown Court

Score: 5.4

The BBC Television Shakespeare

Score: 5.2

Rules of Engagement

Score: 2.0

The Bell

Score: 1.0

Sins

Score: 0.5

Theatre Night

Score: 0.0

The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words

Score: 0.0

The Genius of Mozart

Score: 0.0

Dickens

Score: 0.0

A Sort of Innocence

Score: 0.0