Kenneth Cranham

Actor Dec 12 (age 81) Dunfermline - Scotland - UK 1960–2021 (61 year career)

6.2 avg rating

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 He…

Known For

Film

Hot Fuzz

James Reaper

Film

Maleficent

King Henry

Film

Rome

Gnaeus Pompey Magnus

Film

Valkyrie

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

Film

Layer Cake

Jimmy Price

Film

Official Secrets

Judge Hyam

Film

A Good Year

Sir Nigel

Film

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite

Filmography

Acting (168)

Movies (99)

Mr. Jones

as Lloyd George

Official Secrets

as Judge Hyam

Born a King

as Lord Curzon

Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires

2018

as Leopold Czihaczek

Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

2017

as Joe Turner

6.4

Joe Orton Laid Bare

2017

as Himself

Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer

2017

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

5 Days of War

as Michael Stilton

Graffiti Wars

as Narrator (Voice)

The Night Watch

as Horace Mundy

National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard

2011

as Firs

8.5

Harold Pinter: A Celebration

2010

as Self

Made in Dagenham

2010

as Monty Taylor

6.7

Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen

2009

as MJ O'Loughlin

7.3

Valkyrie

2008

as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

7.0

Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

as Captain Turner

Hot Fuzz

as James Reaper

Heroes & Villains: Napoleon

2007

as General Carteaux

The Man from Montevideo

2007

as Gary Solway

The Chatterley Affair

2006

as Older Keith

5.3

Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare

as Narrator

A Good Year

as Sir Nigel

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

2004

as Narrator

7.8

Man Dancin'

2004

as D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers

Blackball

as Chairman Collins

Killing Hitler

as Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies

Sparkling Cyanide

as George Barton

Pollyanna

as Mr. Pendleton

The Voynich Mystery

as Narrator

Two Men Went To War

as Sgt. Peter King

Night Flight

as Ted Atwell

Women Talking Dirty

as George

Gangster No. 1

as Tommy

Shiner

as Gibson

Kevin & Perry Go Large

2000

as Vicar

5.0

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades

as Colonel Schmidt

Born Romantic

as Barney

The Most Fertile Man in Ireland

2000

as Da

5.3

Lady Audley's Secret

2000

as Sir Michael Audley

3.5

The Murder of Stephen Lawrence

1999

as Michael Mansfield QC

The Last Yellow

as Len

RPM

as Biggerman

Vigo

as The Producer

The Boxer

as Matt MaGuire

Midnight Man

as Brigadier Charles Ferguson

4.8

Deep in the Heart

1996

as Robert Flaherty

Bed of Roses

1996

as Simon

5.8

On Dangerous Ground

1996

as Brigadier Charles Ferguson

Requiem Apache

as Tony

The Vision Thing

as Dick Naughton

Tale of a Vampire

as Edgar

Royal Celebration

as Douglas

Monkey Boy

as Hennessey

A Little Bit of Lippy

1992

as Reggie Titherington

Under Suspicion

as Frank Vance

Prospero's Books

as Sebastian

A Master of the Marionettes

1989

as Teddy

Just Another Secret

1989

as Brosch

The Black and Blue Lamp

1988

as Supt. Cherry

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

1988

as Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite

6.4

The Party

1988

as Joe Shawcross

Chocolat

1988

as Jonathan Boothby

6.9

Stealing Heaven

1988

as Vice Chancellor Suger

6.1

Normal Service

1988

as Peter

Making Waves

as Joe Nash

The Birthday Party

as Stanley Webber

Dead Man's Folly

as Insp. Bland

Lady Windermere's Fan

1985

as Lord Darlington

The Dumb Waiter

1985

as Gus

8.0

The Caretaker

1981

as Aston

The Sin Bin

1981

as Alan Grieves

Donkeys' Years

1980

as Bill Taylor

The Merchant of Venice

1980

as Gratiano

7.0

'Tis Pity She's a Whore

1980

as Giovanni

5.0

Butterflies Don't Count

1978

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

Otley

as Kid

Sling Your Hook

as Roland

Oliver!

1968

as Noah Claypole

7.0

Death of a Private

1967

as Young intellectual

Television (69)

Finding Alice

as Gerry

Trying

as Barry

The Spanish Princess

as John Morton

Hatton Garden

as Brian Reader

Strike

as Dennis Creed

The White Princess

as John Morton

Bancroft

as Charlie Haverstock

6.9

War and Peace

2016

as Uncle Mikhail

7.6

Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories

Inside No. 9

as Rupert

37 Days

as John Burns

In the Flesh

as Vicar Oddie

In the Flesh

as Vicar Oddie

Death in Paradise

as Father John

Moving On

as Mike

The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words

2009

as W H Auden

Merlin

2008

as Aulfric

7.8

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

as Mr Clare

Lilies

as Health Inspector

Lilies

Heroes and Villains

The Line of Beauty

as Sir Maurice Tipper

6.3

Rome

2005

as Gnaeus Pompey Magnus

8.2

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Rex Fortescue

New Tricks

Hustle

as Francis Owen

The Genius of Mozart

as Leopold Mozart

Murder Investigation Team

as Ray Morgan

Believe Nothing

as DI Aldiss

Dickens

as John Forster

Sins

2000

as Gilbert

0.5

Without Motive

2000

as DCS Derek Henderson

Our Mutual Friend

as Silas Wegg

Midsomer Murders

as Jude Langham

Dalziel & Pascoe

as Tommy Collingwood

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1996

as Reverend Michael Millward

Kavanagh Q.C.

as Roy Lawrence

Heartbeat

as Charlie Wallace

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

as Colonel Schmidt

Between the Lines

Murder Most Horrid

as Inspector Salford

Chimera

as Hennessey

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

as Pastor Finch

Rules of Engagement

as Martin Goodman

The Play on One

as Peter

Inspector Morse

as Cedric Downes

Casualty

as James Lawrence

Lovejoy

as Litvak

A Sort of Innocence

Theatre Night

as Stanley

Natural World

Reilly: Ace of Spies

as Lenin

Shine on Harvey Moon

as Harvey Moon

The Bell

as Nick Fawley

Bergerac

as Gascoigne

Brideshead Revisited

as Sergeant Block

Cribb

as Francis Mostyn-Smith

Therese Raquin

as Camille Raquin

Minder

as Walter

Danger UXB

as Sapper Salt

Enemy at the Door

as Jack Foster

Strangers

as Willie Bruce

Crown Court

as John Tucker

Van der Valk

as Dirk Boutsen

Budgie

as Inky Ballantine

Play for Today

as Tom

From a Bird's Eye View

1970

as Tim O'Donovan

5.5

BBC Play of the Month

as Antonio

Coronation Street

as Roy