Kenneth Cranham
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.
Mr. Jones
Lloyd George
Official Secrets
Judge Hyam
Born a King
Lord Curzon
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Leopold Czihaczek
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Himself
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Joe Turner
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
The Host
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Self
Maleficent
King Henry
The Legend of Hercules
Lucius
Closed Circuit
Cameron Fischer
Flying Blind
Victor
Panto!
Jerry
Suspension of Disbelief
Bullock
Graffiti Wars
Narrator (Voice)
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Firs
5 Days of War
Michael Stilton
The Night Watch
Horace Mundy
Made in Dagenham
Monty Taylor
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Self
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
MJ O'Loughlin
Valkyrie
Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
General Carteaux
The Man from Montevideo
Gary Solway
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
Captain Turner
Hot Fuzz
James Reaper
A Good Year
Sir Nigel
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Narrator
The Chatterley Affair
Older Keith
The Lavender List
Harold Wilson
Mangal Pandey - The Rising
Mr. Kent
Layer Cake
Jimmy Price
Trauma
DC Jackson
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
Narrator
Man Dancin'
D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
Sparkling Cyanide
George Barton
Blackball
Chairman Collins
Killing Hitler
Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
Pollyanna
Mr. Pendleton
Two Men Went To War
Sgt. Peter King
Night Flight
Ted Atwell
The Voynich Mystery
Narrator
Women Talking Dirty
George
Shiner
Gibson
Born Romantic
Barney
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Colonel Schmidt
Gangster No. 1
Tommy
The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Da
Lady Audley's Secret
Sir Michael Audley
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Vicar
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Michael Mansfield QC
The Last Yellow
Len
Vigo
The Producer
RPM
Biggerman
The Boxer
Matt MaGuire
Midnight Man
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Deep in the Heart
Robert Flaherty
On Dangerous Ground
Brigadier Charles Ferguson
Bed of Roses
Simon
Requiem Apache
Tony
The Vision Thing
Dick Naughton
Royal Celebration
Douglas
Tale of a Vampire
Edgar
Monkey Boy
Hennessey
A Little Bit of Lippy
Reggie Titherington
Under Suspicion
Frank Vance
Prospero's Books
Sebastian
A Master of the Marionettes
Teddy
Just Another Secret
Brosch
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
The Black and Blue Lamp
Supt. Cherry
Stealing Heaven
Vice Chancellor Suger
Chocolat
Jonathan Boothby
The Party
Joe Shawcross
Normal Service
Peter
The Birthday Party
Stanley Webber
Making Waves
Joe Nash
Dead Man's Folly
Insp. Bland
Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington
The Dumb Waiter
Gus
The Caretaker
Aston
The Sin Bin
Alan Grieves
The Merchant of Venice
Gratiano
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Giovanni
Donkeys' Years
Bill Taylor
Butterflies Don't Count
Tom
Joseph Andrews
The Wicked Squire
Robin and Marian
Jack's Apprentice
Vampira
Paddy
The Changeling
Antonio
Achilles Heel
Gordon
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Paolo
Up Pompeii
Christian
Fragment of Fear
Joe
All the Way Up
Tom Midway
Sling Your Hook
Roland
Otley
Kid
Oliver!
Noah Claypole
Death of a Private
Young intellectual