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Kenneth Cranham
Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
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 promi…
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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.
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2021
Finding Alice
TV show Gerry Walsh
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2020
Trying
TV show Barry
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2019
Mr. Jones
Movie Lloyd George
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2019
Official Secrets
Movie Judge Hyam
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2019
Hatton Garden
TV show Brian Reader
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2019
The Spanish Princess
TV show John Morton
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2019
Born a King
Movie Lord Curzon
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2018
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
Movie Leopold Czihaczek
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2017
Bancroft
TV show Charlie Haverstock
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2017
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Movie Himself
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2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Movie Joe Turner
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2017
Strike
TV show Dennis Creed
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2017
Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
Movie The Host
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2017
The White Princess
TV show John Morton
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2016
Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
TV show Dean Smith
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2016
War and Peace
TV show Uncle Mikhail
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2014
Maleficent
Movie King Henry
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2014
37 Days
TV show John Burns
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2014
Inside No. 9
TV show Rupert
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2014
The Legend of Hercules
Movie Lucius
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2013
Closed Circuit
Movie Cameron Fischer
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2013
Flying Blind
Movie Victor
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2013
In the Flesh
TV show Vicar Oddie
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2012
Panto!
Movie Jerry
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2012
Suspension of Disbelief
Movie Bullock
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2011
Death in Paradise
TV show Father John
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2011
Graffiti Wars
Movie Narrator (Voice)
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2011
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Movie Firs
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2011
5 Days of War
Movie Michael Stilton
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2011
The Night Watch
Movie Horace Mundy
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2010
Upstairs Downstairs
TV show Sgt Ashworth
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2010
Made in Dagenham
Movie Monty Taylor
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2010
Harold Pinter: A Celebration
Movie Self
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2009
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Movie MJ O'Loughlin
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2009
Moving On
TV show Mike
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2009
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
TV show W H Auden
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2008
Valkyrie
Movie Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
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2008
Merlin
TV show Aulfric
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2008
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
TV show Mr Clare
