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