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Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a film, television and stage actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who has appeared in Layer Cake
Layer Cake (film)

Layer Cake is a 2004 in film United Kingdom gangster Thriller , directed by Matthew Vaughn. It is based on a Layer Cake by J. J. Connolly....
, Gangster No. 1
Gangster No. 1

Gangster No. 1 is a Cinema of the United Kingdom crime film released in British films of 2000. It stars Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Paul Bettany and was directed by Paul McGuigan ....
, Rome
Rome (TV series)

Rome is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe-nominated and Primetime Emmy Award-winning historical drama film television series co-created by John Milius, William J....
, Oliver!
Oliver! (film)

Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
 and many other films. Amongst his contemporaries, he is renowned for the title role in the popular 1980s sitcom Shine on Harvey Moon
Shine on Harvey Moon

Shine on Harvey Moon is a United Kingdom television series made by Central Television for ITV from 1982 to 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian....
, However, he is probably best known to genre fans as the deranged Dr. Philip Channard and his Cenobitic alter-ego
Channard Cenobite

Dr. Philip Channard is a Cenobite appearing in the movie Hellbound: Hellraiser II as the main human villain and was portrayed by Kenneth Cranham....
 from Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 in film directed by Tony Randel. It draws heavily upon, and was made by much of the same cast and crew as its precursor, Hellraiser....
. His many stage credits include West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane
Entertaining Mr Sloane

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 in literature and transferred to the West End theatre Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964....
, Loot
Loot (play)

Loot is a play by Joe Orton. The play is an extremely Black comedy farce which satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force....
, An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a Play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley premiering in the theatres of Moscow in 1945. Its West End debut was at London's No?l Coward Theatre on 1 October 1946 starring Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole....
, (both transferring to Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
), The Ruffian on the Stair
The Ruffian on the Stair

The Ruffian On the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton and was first performed on BBC radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives....
, The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party (play)

The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays. After its hostile London reception almost ended Pinter's playwriting career, it went on to be considered "a classic"....
 and Gaslight (at the Old Vic
Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road, London. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1951....
).

Cranham was born in Dunfermline
Dunfermline

Dunfermline is a town in Fife which had official City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom#Pretenders until 1970. It is located on high ground five miles from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth on the route of major road and rail crossings across the firth to Edinburgh and the south....
, Fife
Fife

Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, the son of Lochgelly-born Margaret McKay Cranham (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Ferguson) and Ronald Cranham.






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Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a film, television and stage actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who has appeared in Layer Cake
Layer Cake (film)

Layer Cake is a 2004 in film United Kingdom gangster Thriller , directed by Matthew Vaughn. It is based on a Layer Cake by J. J. Connolly....
, Gangster No. 1
Gangster No. 1

Gangster No. 1 is a Cinema of the United Kingdom crime film released in British films of 2000. It stars Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Paul Bettany and was directed by Paul McGuigan ....
, Rome
Rome (TV series)

Rome is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe-nominated and Primetime Emmy Award-winning historical drama film television series co-created by John Milius, William J....
, Oliver!
Oliver! (film)

Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
 and many other films. Amongst his contemporaries, he is renowned for the title role in the popular 1980s sitcom Shine on Harvey Moon
Shine on Harvey Moon

Shine on Harvey Moon is a United Kingdom television series made by Central Television for ITV from 1982 to 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian....
, However, he is probably best known to genre fans as the deranged Dr. Philip Channard and his Cenobitic alter-ego
Channard Cenobite

Dr. Philip Channard is a Cenobite appearing in the movie Hellbound: Hellraiser II as the main human villain and was portrayed by Kenneth Cranham....
 from Hellbound: Hellraiser II
Hellbound: Hellraiser II

Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 in film directed by Tony Randel. It draws heavily upon, and was made by much of the same cast and crew as its precursor, Hellraiser....
. His many stage credits include West End productions of Entertaining Mr Sloane
Entertaining Mr Sloane

Entertaining Mr Sloane is a play by the English playwright Joe Orton. It was first produced in London at the Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 in literature and transferred to the West End theatre Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964....
, Loot
Loot (play)

Loot is a play by Joe Orton. The play is an extremely Black comedy farce which satirises the Roman Catholic Church, social attitudes to death, and the integrity of the police force....
, An Inspector Calls
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a Play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley premiering in the theatres of Moscow in 1945. Its West End debut was at London's No?l Coward Theatre on 1 October 1946 starring Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole....
, (both transferring to Broadway
Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
), The Ruffian on the Stair
The Ruffian on the Stair

The Ruffian On the Stair is a play by British playwright Joe Orton and was first performed on BBC radio in August 1964. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a couple and a mysterious young man who toys with their lives....
, The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party (play)

The Birthday Party is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter and one of Pinter's best-known and most-frequently performed plays. After its hostile London reception almost ended Pinter's playwriting career, it went on to be considered "a classic"....
 and Gaslight (at the Old Vic
Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road, London. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1951....
).

Cranham was born in Dunfermline
Dunfermline

Dunfermline is a town in Fife which had official City_status_in_the_United_Kingdom#Pretenders until 1970. It is located on high ground five miles from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth on the route of major road and rail crossings across the firth to Edinburgh and the south....
, Fife
Fife

Fife is a council area of Scotland, situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire....
, Scotland
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
, the son of Lochgelly-born Margaret McKay Cranham (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Ferguson) and Ronald Cranham. He has two daughters; Nancy Cranham, from a former relationship with Charlotte Cornwell
Charlotte Cornwell

Charlotte Cornwell is an actress and the half-sister of spy novelist John le Carr? . She describes him as "the best brother a girl could have"....
, and Kathleen Cranham from his current relationship with actress Fiona Victory.

Filmography

  • Valkyrie (film)
    Valkyrie (film)

    Valkyrie is a 2008 in film Historical fiction thriller film set in Nazi Germany during World War II. The film depicts the 20 July plot by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country....
  • Hot Fuzz
    Hot Fuzz

    Hot Fuzz is a British films of 2007 Cinema of the United Kingdom action film comedy film written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and starring Pegg and Nick Frost....
  • Hellbound: Hellraiser II
    Hellbound: Hellraiser II

    Hellbound: Hellraiser II is a 1988 in film directed by Tony Randel. It draws heavily upon, and was made by much of the same cast and crew as its precursor, Hellraiser....
     - Dr. Philip Channard/The Channard Cenobite
  • Layer Cake
    Layer Cake (film)

    Layer Cake is a 2004 in film United Kingdom gangster Thriller , directed by Matthew Vaughn. It is based on a Layer Cake by J. J. Connolly....
  • Trauma
    Trauma (2004 film)

    Trauma is a 2004 in film psychological thriller directed by Marc Evans and written by Richard Smith....
  • A Good Year
    A Good Year

    A Good Year is a 2006 in film romantic comedy film, set in London and Provence. It was directed by Ridley Scott, with an international cast including Russell Crowe, Marion Cotillard, Abbie Cornish and Albert Finney....
  • Blackball
    Blackball (film)

    Blackball is a 2003 in film British comedy sports film about Cliff Starkey , a fictional rebellious young bowls player. His dream is to play for his country, but always preferred to play by his own rules, much to the disapproval of the local bowls club....
  • Man Dancin
  • Shiner
    Shiner (film)

    Shiner is a 2004 released film written and directed by Christian Calson....
  • Gangster No. 1
    Gangster No. 1

    Gangster No. 1 is a Cinema of the United Kingdom crime film released in British films of 2000. It stars Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis and Paul Bettany and was directed by Paul McGuigan ....
  • Kevin & Perry Go Large
    Kevin & Perry Go Large

    Kevin & Perry Go Large is a 2000 in film comedy film based upon the Harry Enfield sketch Kevin the Teenager. The film was directed by Ed Bye and was written by Dave Cummings and Harry Enfield....
  • Women Talking Dirty
  • Deep in the Heart
  • RPM
  • The Boxer
    The Boxer (film)

    The Boxer is a 1997 in film film by Ireland Film director Jim Sheridan. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Emily Watson, the film center's on the life of a boxing and former Provisional IRA Volunteer, Danny Flynn, played by Lewis, who has just been released from prison....
  • Chocolat
    Chocolat (1988 film)

    Chocolat is a 1988 movie, directed by Claire Denis, about a French family that lives in colonial Cameroon. Marc and Aim?e Dalens are the parents of France , a young girl who befriends Prot?e , a Cameroon native that is the family's household servant....
  • Under Suspicion
  • Tale of a Vampire
  • Stealing Heaven
  • Robin and Marian
    Robin and Marian

    Robin and Marian is a 1976 in film United Kingdom and United States co-produced romantic adventure period film starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Maid Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard Harris as Richard I of England....
  • Up Pompeii!
    Up Pompeii!

    Up Pompeii! was a United Kingdom television comedy series of the 1970s, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, of the Carry On fame, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin....
  • Oliver!
    Oliver! (film)

    Oliver! is a 1968 in film musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart....
  • Two Men Went to War
    Two Men Went to War

    Two Men Went to War is a 2002 British film based on a true World War II story, from Raymond Foxall's book Amateur Commandos which describes the adventures of two army dentists who sneak off on their own personal invasion of France....


Television credits

  • The Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea
    The Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea

    The Sinking of the Lusitania: Terror at Sea is an English-German Docu-drama produced in 2007. This ninety minute film is a dramatization of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat, SM U-20....
  • Doc Martin
    Doc Martin

    Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama starring Martin Clunes. Created by Dominic Minghella, it is filmed on location in and around the fishing village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, with filming of most interior scenes and production carried out in a converted barn at a local farm....
     Christmas Special
  • The Line of Beauty
    The Line of Beauty

    The Line of Beauty is a 2004 Booker Prize-winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst....
  • The Lavender List
    The Lavender List

    The Lavender List is a docudrama broadcast on BBC Four in March 2006 about the events that led to the drafting of the "Lavender List", the satirical name for Harold Wilson's 1976 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours....
  • Rome
    Rome (TV series)

    Rome is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe-nominated and Primetime Emmy Award-winning historical drama film television series co-created by John Milius, William J....
     as Pompey Magnus (Season 1)
  • The Genius of Mozart
  • Sparkling Cyanide
    Sparkling Cyanide

    Sparkling Cyanide is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1945 in literature under the title of Remembered Death and in UK by the Collins Crime Club in the December of the same year under Christie's original title....
  • Killing Hitler
    Killing Hitler

    Killing Hitler, is a BBC docudrama that examines the Operation Foxley plot to kill Adolf Hitler....
  • Pollyanna
  • Dickens
  • Dalziel and Pascoe
    Dalziel and Pascoe

    Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and Detective Sergeant Peter Pascoe, known together as Dalziel and Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill and a Dalziel and Pascoe ....
    : Home Truths
  • Kavanagh QC
    Kavanagh QC

    Kavanagh QC was a United Kingdom television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. It is still shown on ITV3 and series 1-5 are available on Region 2 dvds....
  • Heartbeat
    Heartbeat (TV series)

    Heartbeat is a long-running United Kingdom TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. It is made by ITV Productions at The Leeds Studios for broadcast on ITV....
  • Lovejoy
    Lovejoy

    Lovejoy is a TV series about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer based in East Anglia whose scruples are not always the highest....
  • NCS: Manhunt
    NCS: Manhunt

    NCS Manhunt was a 2002 BBC crime-drama-mystery-thriller TV series, starring David Suchet, based on the National Crime Squad. It lasted a single season....
  • The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
  • On Dangerous Ground
  • Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985, which she subsequently Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit into a BBC television drama....
  • Royal Celebration
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Dead Man's Folly
    Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in October 1956 in literature and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 5 of the same year....
  • Brideshead Revisited
    Brideshead Revisited

    Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945....
  • The Merchant of Venice
    The Merchant of Venice

    The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a Shakespearean comedies in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedy, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for...
  • Shine on Harvey Moon
    Shine on Harvey Moon

    Shine on Harvey Moon is a United Kingdom television series made by Central Television for ITV from 1982 to 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian....
  • Danger UXB
    Danger UXB

    Danger UXB was a 1979 in television British ITV television series developed by John Hawkesworth about a squad of Royal Engineers assigned the duty of defusing unexploded ordnance in England in World War II, beginning with the Blitz....
  • Casualty
  • Chimera
  • Reilly, Ace of Spies
    Reilly, Ace of Spies

    Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart....


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