Birthday
1944/12/12 (80 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
Also know as
Ken Cranham , Кеннет Крэнем
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...Read more
(1972) Brother Sun, Sister Moon
as Paolo
(2000) Gangster No. 1
as Tommy
(2004) Layer Cake
as Jimmy Price
(1996) Bed of Roses
as Simon
(1991) Prospero's Books
as Sebastian
(1988) Chocolat
as Boothby
(1986) Dead Man's Folly
as Insp. Bland
(1988) Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
(2006) A Good Year
as Sir Nigel
(1991) Under Suspicion
as Frank Vance
(1977) Joseph Andrews
as The Wicked Squire
(1993) Tale of a Vampire
as Edgar
(2007) Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
as Captain Turner
(1993) The Vision Thing
as Dick Naughton
(1993) Royal Celebration
as Douglas
(1969) Sling Your Hook
as Roland
(1967) Death of a Private
as Young intellectual
(2002) Two Men Went To War
as Sgt. Peter King
(1968) Oliver!
as Noah Claypole
(1989) A Master of the Marionettes
as Teddy
(1996) On Dangerous Ground
as Brigadier Charles Ferguson
(1997) Midnight Man
as Brig. Charles Ferguson
(2003) Killing Hitler
as Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
(2003) Pollyanna
as Mr. Pendleton
(2014) Maleficent
as King Henry
(2001) Women Talking Dirty
as George
(1988) Stealing Heaven
as Vice Chancellor Suger
(2013) Closed Circuit
as Cameron Fischer
(2013) Flying Blind
as Victor
(2014) The Legend of Hercules
as Lucius
(1988) Normal Service
as Peter
(1992) A Little Bit of Lippy
as Reggie Titherington
(2006) Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
as Narrator
(1987) Making Waves
as Joe Nash
(1989) Just Another Secret
as Brosch
(2006) The Lavender List
as Harold Wilson
(1970) All the Way Up
as Tom Midway
(2011) Graffiti Wars
as Narrator (Voice)
(2011) The Night Watch
as Horace Mundy
(1992) Monkey Boy
as Hennessey
(2000) Born Romantic
as Barney
(2004) Trauma
as DC Jackson
(2012) Panto!
as Jerry
(1980) Donkeys' Years
as Bill Taylor
(2015) Leviathan: The Story of Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II
as Self
(1988) The Black and Blue Lamp
as ---
(1974) Vampira
as Paddy
(2007) Hot Fuzz
as James Reaper
(1998) RPM
as Biggerman
(1985) Lady Windermere's Fan
as Lord Darlington
(2004) Man Dancin'
as D.I. Walter 'Pancho' Villers
(2004) Hannibal: The Man Who Hated Rome
as Narrator
(2008) Valkyrie
as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel
(1974) The Changeling
as Antonio
(2003) Sparkling Cyanide
as George Barton
(2009) Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen
as MJ O'Loughlin
(1994) Requiem Apache
as Tony
(2010) Made in Dagenham
as Monty Taylor
(2010) Harold Pinter: A Celebration
as Self
(2011) National Theatre Live: The Cherry Orchard
as Firs
(1996) Deep in the Heart
as Robert Flaherty
(2017) Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
as Joe Turner
(1980) 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
as Giovanni
(1970) Fragment of Fear
as Joe
(1969) Otley
as Kid
(2000) Shiner
as Gibson
(2000) Lady Audley's Secret
as Sir Michael Audley
(2019) Official Secrets
as Judge Hyam
(2003) Blackball
as Chairman Collins
(1999) The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
as Michael Mansfield QC
(2002) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades
as Colonel Schmidt
(2002) Night Flight
as Ted Atwell
(1976) Robin and Marian
as Jack's Apprentice
(1998) Vigo
as The Producer
(1981) The Caretaker
as Aston
(1997) The Boxer
as Matt MaGuire
(1981) The Sin Bin
as Alan Grieves
(2018) Egon Schiele: Dangerous Desires
as Leopold Czihaczek
(2017) Dark Ditties Presents: The Offer
as The Host
(2000) Kevin & Perry Go Large
as Vicar
(1987) The Birthday Party
as Stanley Webber
(2019) Mr. Jones
as Lloyd George
(2017) Joe Orton Laid Bare
as Himself
(1980) The Merchant of Venice
as Gratiano
(1973) Achilles Heel
as Gordon
(2012) Suspension of Disbelief
as Bullock
(1985) The Dumb Waiter
as Gus
(1978) Butterflies Don't Count
as Tom
(2000) The Most Fertile Man in Ireland
as Da
(1999) The Last Yellow
as Len
(2007) Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
as General Carteaux
(1988) The Party
as Joe Shawcross
(2019) Born a King
as Lord Curzon
(2002) The Voynich Mystery
as Narrator
(1971) Up Pompeii
as Christian
(1991) Murder Most Horrid
as Inspector Salford
(2002) Believe Nothing
as DI Aldiss
(1971) Budgie
as Inky Ballantine
(2005) Rome
as Gnaeus Pompey Magnus
(1992) The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
as Colonel Schmidt
(2021) Finding Alice
as Gerry
(2004) Hustle
as Francis Owen
(1992) Heartbeat
as Charlie Wallace
(1996) Dalziel & Pascoe
as Tommy Collingwood
(1987) Inspector Morse
as Cedric Downes
(2003) Murder Investigation Team
as Ray Morgan
(1992) Between the Lines
as ---
(1986) Lovejoy
as Litvak
(1981) Brideshead Revisited
as Sergeant Block
(1982) Shine on Harvey Moon
as ---
(1972) Van der Valk
as Dirk Boutsen
(2004) New Tricks
as ---
(1986) A Sort of Innocence
as ---
(1991) Chimera
as Hennessey
(1983) Natural World
as ---
(1970) From a Bird's Eye View
as Tim O'Donovan
(1978) The BBC Television Shakespeare
as ---
(1996) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
as Reverend Millward
(2009) Moving On
as Mike
(2000) Without Motive
as DCS Derek Henderson
(2016) War and Peace
as Uncle Mikhail
(1972) Crown Court
as John Tucker
(2014) 37 Days
as John Burns
(2007) Lilies
as ---
(1989) Rules of Engagement
as Martin Goodman
(2000) Sins
as Gilbert
(2013) In the Flesh
as Vicar Oddie
(1982) The Bell
as Nick Fawley
(2002) Dickens
as ---
(1986) Casualty
as James Lawrence
(1979) Minder
as Walter
(1978) Enemy at the Door
as Jack Foster
(1995) Kavanagh Q.C.
as Roy Lawrence
(2016) Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories
as ---
(2006) The Line of Beauty
as Sir Maurice Tipper
(2007) Lilies
as Health Inspector
(2004) The Genius of Mozart
as Leopold Mozart
(1998) Our Mutual Friend
as ---
(2017) The White Princess
as John Morton
(1980) Therese Raquin
as Camille Raquin
(2017) Bancroft
as Charlie Haverstock
(2007) Heroes and Villains
as ---
(2008) Merlin
as Aulfric
(2009) The Addictions of Sin: WH Auden in His Own Words
as W H Auden
(1981) Bergerac
as Gascoigne
(1990) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
as Pastor Finch
(2019) Hatton Garden
as Brian Reader
(1997) Midsomer Murders
as Jude Langham
(2014) Inside No. 9
as Rupert
(2011) Death in Paradise
as Father John
(1979) Danger UXB
as Sapper Salt
(1979) Danger UXB
as L / Corporal Salt
(1970) Play for Today
as Alan Grieves
(1988) The Play on One
as Joe Shawcross
(1988) The Play on One
as Peter
(2008) Tess of the D'Urbervilles
as Mr Clare
(1983) Reilly: Ace of Spies
as Lenin
(2019) The Spanish Princess
as John Morton
(2017) Strike
as Dennis Creed
(1985) Theatre Night
as Stanley
(2004) Agatha Christie's Marple
as Rex Fortescue
(2020) Trying
as Barry