Kenneth Cranham
Acting
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.
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
Age 44 (now 81)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joe Turner
Age 72 (now 81)
Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
as Leopold Czihaczek
Age 73 (now 81)
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joe Turner
Age 72 (now 81)
Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Self
Age 70 (now 81)
National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
as Firs
Age 66 (now 81)
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as MJ O'Loughlin
Age 64 (now 81)
Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
as Captain Turner
Age 62 (now 81)
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
as Narrator
Age 61 (now 81)
Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
as Narrator
Age 59 (now 81)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Colonel Schmidt
Age 55 (now 81)
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
as Michael Mansfield QC
Age 54 (now 81)
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
Age 44 (now 81)
A Genius Like Us: A Portrait of Joe Orton
as Self
Age 37 (now 81)
The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
as W H Auden
Age 64 (now 81)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Reverend Michael Millward
Age 51 (now 81)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Colonel Schmidt
Age 47 (now 81)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as Pastor Finch
Age 45 (now 81)
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Also Known As
Ken Cranham , Кеннет Крэнем
IMDB
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