Kenneth Cranham
Birthday: 1944-12-12
Place of Birth: 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.
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days...
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Gangster No. 1
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood...
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Layer Cake
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn...
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Bed of Roses
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a s...
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Prospero's Books
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and ...
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Chocolat
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French wo...
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Dead Man's Folly
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a r...
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Now confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty insists her supposedly dead father is actually stuck...
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A Good Year
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many chil...
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Under Suspicion
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Haze...
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Joseph Andrews
Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye...
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Tale of a Vampire
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampir...
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Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
The story of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915 after she was torpedoed off the Irish coast. The s...
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The Vision Thing
In the run-up to a General Election, the British Prime Minister thinks he is receiving messages from...
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Royal Celebration
A bittersweet drama about a street party held in a suburban London square to mark the 1981 Royal Wed...
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Sling Your Hook
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool....
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Death of a Private
An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man....
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Two Men Went To War
Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, ...
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Oliver!
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from ...
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A Master of the Marionettes
Teddy Rose's passion is security - selling alarm systems to prosperous yet fearful suburban homes, o...
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On Dangerous Ground
Vusi Madlazi returns to the South African village he left as a young boy (he was organizing against ...
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Midnight Man
British soldiers force a recently captured IRA terrorist to cooperate with them and then assign him ...
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Killing Hitler
A drama-documentary about Operation Foxley, a 1944 British plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler....
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Pollyanna
Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her fathe...
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Maleficent
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable fore...
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Women Talking Dirty
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist....
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Stealing Heaven
Abelard, a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, falls in love with on...
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Closed Circuit
A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testin...
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Flying Blind
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, ...
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The Legend of Hercules
In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthro...
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Normal Service
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. To...
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A Little Bit of Lippy
When working-class Liverpudlian Rick Fairley reveals his long-standing interest in cross-dressing to...
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She ...
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Making Waves
A group of elderly women go on vacation to the seaside. One of them takes her son along and constant...
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Just Another Secret
An American intelligence agent uncovers a plot to assassinate Soviet Premier Gorbachev just at the t...
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The Lavender List
A political drama about the last days of Harold Wilson's Labour government in the 1970s and his curi...
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All the Way Up
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can ga...
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The Night Watch
Four Londoners are inseparably linked by their wartime experiences. In a time when the barriers of s...
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Monkey Boy
Half man, half monkey, Chad was born in a lab and kept hidden from the world. A journalist, investig...
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Born Romantic
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (O...
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Trauma
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well ...
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Panto!
Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittin...
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Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a feature length documentary unco...
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The Black and Blue Lamp
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police forc...
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Vampira
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from sever...
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Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the slee...
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RPM
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar....
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Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But ...
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Man Dancin'
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his crim...
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Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
No shortlist of the greatest generals in history would be complete with out the name of Hannibal. Th...
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Valkyrie
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native German...
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The Changeling
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautifu...
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Sparkling Cyanide
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated t...
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Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
Drama illuminating Dr James Niven's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanis...
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Requiem Apache
Alan Bleasdale's comic crime caper for Channel 4 about a former getaway driver desperate to leave hi...
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Made in Dagenham
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out i...
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Harold Pinter: A Celebration
In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration ...
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National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...
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Deep in the Heart
Two British filmmakers attempt to make a documentary about Austin, Texas, and encounter strange and ...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Aca...
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'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Lord Sorenzo marries the beautiful young Annabella, but unbeknownst to him, she is pregnant as a res...
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Fragment of Fear
Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is m...
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Lady Audley's Secret
When Lucy Graham weds the much older Sir Michael Audley, his nephew Robert is suspicious of the love...
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Official Secrets
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasi...
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Blackball
Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptio...
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The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought t...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
Posing as a dancer for the Ballets Russes in Barcelona, Indy meets old friend Pablo Picasso, and nar...
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Night Flight
Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II ...
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Robin and Marian
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Maria...
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Vigo
Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with s...
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The Caretaker
The story of two brothers and a tramp. Harold Pinter's first major success as a dramatist....
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The Boxer
Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leave...
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The Sin Bin
TV play set in an experimental self-rehabilitations unit at a British Prison, where six lifers parti...
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Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
The dramatic story of Egon Schiele in his own words, celebrating his remarkable artistic achievement...
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Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
Seven strangers are invited to a house to be offered a large inheritance, instead they find themselv...
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Kevin & Perry Go Large
When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party is...
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The Birthday Party
It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production ...
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Mr. Jones
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a fam...
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Joe Orton Laid Bare
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who...
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The Merchant of Venice
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to te...
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Achilles Heel
A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career....
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Suspension of Disbelief
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in ...
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The Dumb Waiter
In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them mess...
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Butterflies Don't Count
A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer....
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The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
Unimpressive, 24-year-old virgin, Eamonn (Kris Marshall) lives in Belfast with his mother, during th...
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The Last Yellow
Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their liv...
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Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
Twenty Four year-old Corsican refugee Napoleon Bonaparte is a lowly artillery captain in the French ...
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The Party
10 May 1968. In Paris the barricades are about to burst into flames as students and police clash. In...
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Born a King
A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from th...
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The Voynich Mystery
This documentary explores the authenticity of the Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book that contain...
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Up Pompeii
A funny thing happens to Lurcio on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious sc...
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5 Days of War
An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airs...
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The Man from Montevideo
DC Davies investigates the murder of a limousine driver who is found in his limo, his neck was slash...
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