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Kenneth Cranham

Kenneth Cranham

Birthday: 1944-12-12 | Place of Birth: 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 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2019
Hatton Garden

as    Brian Reader

2019
Mr. Jones

as    Lloyd George

2019
Born a King

as    Lord Curzon

2017
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool

as    Joe Turner

2017
The White Princess

as    John Morton

2014
Maleficent

as    King Henry

2014
The Legend of Hercules

as    Lucius

2013
Closed Circuit

as    Cameron Fischer

2011
The Night Watch

as    Horace Mundy

2011
Graffiti Wars

as    Narrator (Voice)

2008
Valkyrie

as    Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

2005
Layer Cake

as    Jimmy Price

2004
Trauma

as    DC Jackson

2004
Two Men Went To War

as    Sgt. Peter King

2003
Killing Hitler

as    Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies

2003
Blackball

as    Chairman Collins

2003
Sparkling Cyanide

as    George Barton

2003
Pollyanna

as    Mr. Pendleton

2001
Born Romantic

as    Barney

2000
Shiner

as    Gibson

2000
Gangster No. 1

as    Tommy

1998
RPM

as    Biggerman