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Kenneth Cranham is a Actor British born on 12 december 1944 at Dunfermline (United-kingdom)
Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor.
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Kenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor.
Biography
Cranham was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the son of Lochgelly-born Margaret McKay Cranham (née Ferguson) and Ronald Cranham, an English civil servant. 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.Usually with
Filmography of Kenneth Cranham (52 films)
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Vigo (1998)
Directed by Julien Temple
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors James Frain, Romane Bohringer, Anna Bolt, Francine Bergé, Kenneth Cranham, Diana Quick
Roles The Producer
Rating60%
Au début des années 1930, Jean Vigo rencontre dans un sanatorium pour tuberculeux, Lydu qu'il persuade de quitter le sanatorium pour vivre pleinement, malgré la maladie dont ils souffrent. Ils s'installent à Nice pour se soigner, et Jean, hanté par son père, Almereyda, journaliste anarchiste, s'attelle à la réalisation de son premier court métrage, «A propos de Nice», grâce au cadeau de mariage de ses beaux-parents, une caméra. Malgré le très mauvais accueil réservé au film, le refus de la plupart des producteurs et de grandes difficultés pour faire vivre Lydu et sa fille, Jean poursuit son rêve au milieu de ses compagnons dont Boris Kaufman, son opérateur et Marcel.
The Boxer (1997)
, 1h53Directed by Jim Sheridan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Emily Watson, Brian Cox, Lorraine Pilkington, Ken Stott, Gerard McSorley
Roles Matt MaGuire
Rating69%
Former Irish pugilist & Provisional IRA member Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns home to Belfast from a 14-year stint in prison at the age of 32. Weary of the unbroken cycle of violence in Northern Ireland, he attempts to settle down and live in peace. After meeting his drink-sodden old trainer Ike (Ken Stott), Danny starts up a non-sectarian boxing club for boys in an old gymnasium. While fixing up the old building, however, he runs across a cache of Semtex hidden underneath the stage. He throws the cache into the river.
Bed of Roses (1996)
, 1h27Directed by Michael Haley, Michael Goldenberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Christian Slater, Mary Stuart Masterson, Pamela Adlon, Josh Brolin, Debra Monk, Mary Alice
Roles Simon
Rating60%
Lisa Walker (Mary Stuart Masterson) is a business executive who has gotten used to being alone but doesn't like it very much. She was abandoned by her birth parents and then spent most of her childhood being raised by Stanley (S.A. Griffin), a foster father who never really loves Lisa after her adopted mother died.
Under Suspicion (1991)
, 1h39Directed by Simon Moore
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Liam Neeson, Laura San Giacomo, Kenneth Cranham, Maggie O'Neill, Stephen Moore, Richard Graham
Roles Frank Vance
Rating63%
Brighton, 1959. Tony Aaron est un ancien policier reconverti en détective privé dans les affaires de divorce. Il s'est en particulier spécialisé dans la falsification des preuves d'adultère. Il est engagé pour une nouvelle affaire en apparence anodine. Il mêle sa femme à son enquête sur le peintre Carlo Stasio, mais le couple est brutalement assassiné dans une chambre d'hôtel. Frank, ancien partenaire de Tony, est mis sur le coup. Ses deux principaux suspects sont: Angeline, la maîtresse du peintre qui aurait pu vouloir le tuer pour hériter de ses peintures et de sa maison; et Tony lui-même, devenu suspect numéro un du meurtre de sa propre femme.
Chimera (miniseries) (1991)
Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors John Lynch, Kenneth Cranham, Christine Kavanagh, Peter Armitage, George Costigan, Pip Torrens
Roles Hennessey
Rating63%
The story focuses upon Chad, a young half-boy, half-chimp, developed by scientists as part of a top secret government operation. However, Chad becomes aggressive, strong and uncontrollable, with the inability to communicate on a human level, escaping from the lab, brutally killing several nurses and scientists in the process. The hunt is on to find and capture Chad before the public encounters this strange and dangerous creation. During Chad's escape, he wrestles with his natural child tendencies after befriending some local children and trying to control his wild primal inner instincts.
Prospero's Books (1991)
, 2h9Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors John Gielgud, Michel Blanc, Erland Josephson, Isabelle Pasco, Mark Rylance, Tom Bell
Roles Sebastian
Rating67%
The daughter of Prospero, an exiled magician, falls in love with the son of his enemy, while the sorcerer's sprite, Ariel, convinces him to abandon revenge against the traitors from his earlier life. In the film, Prospero stands in for Shakespeare, and is seen writing and speaking the story's action as it unfolds. Prospero's Books is a complex tale based upon William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Chimera (1990)
Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark
Genres Horror
Actors John Lynch, Kenneth Cranham, Peter Armitage, George Costigan, Pip Torrens, David Calder
Roles Hennessey
Rating63%
Le scénario du film est basé sur un roman de science-fiction de Stephen Gallagher, où une race d'humains est créée à partir d'un croisement génétique entre un homme et un grand singe.
Chocolat (1988)
, 1h45Directed by Claire Denis
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, La colonisation française, Histoire de France
Actors François Cluzet, Isaac de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, Jean-Claude Adelin, Mireille Perrier, Jacques Denis
Roles Boothby
Rating72%
The film begins with an adult woman named France, walking down a road toward Douala, Cameroon. While walking, she is picked up by William J. Park (Emmet Judson Williamson), an African American who has moved to Africa and is driving to Limbe with his son. As they ride, France's mind drifts and we see her as a young girl in Northern French Cameroon where her father was a colonial administrator. The story is conducted through the eyes of young France, showing her friendship with the "houseboy", Protée, as well the sexual tension between him and her young and beautiful mother, Aimée. The conflict of the film comes from the discomfort created as France and her mother attempt to move past the established boundaries between themselves and the native Africans. This is brought to a head through Luc Segalen (Jean-Claude Adelin), a Western drifter who stays with the Dalens family after a small aircraft crashes nearby. He makes public the evident sexual attraction between Aimée and Protée, prompting the mother to act on her desire. This results in a fight between Luc and Protée, who consequently loses his in-house job and is moved to work outdoors in the garage as a mechanic.
Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
, 1h37Directed by Tony Randel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about religion
Actors Clare Higgins, Kenneth Cranham, Ashley Laurence, Imogen Boorman, Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince
Roles Dr. Philip Channard / Channard Cenobite
Rating63%
Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Laurence), the protagonist from the previous film, has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, still haunted by visions of the unspeakable horror that destroyed her family. Interviewed by Doctor Channard (Kenneth Cranham), and his assistant, Kyle MacRae (William Hope), she tells her account of the events depicted in the first film, and pleads with them to destroy the bloody mattress her murderous stepmother, Julia Cotton (Clare Higgins) died on. Despite her frantic urging, MacRae is the only one who seems to believe her.
Stealing Heaven (1988)
, 1h55Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Derek de Lint, Denholm Elliott, Kim Thomson, Bernard Hepton, Kenneth Cranham, Rachel Kempson
Roles Vice Chancellor Suger
Rating63%
Abelard is a famous teacher of philosophy at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, and a champion of reason, at a time when academics are required to observe chastity. He falls in love with one of his students, Héloïse d'Argenteuil, a sixteen-year-old gentlewoman raised in a convent, who has both intellectual curiosity and a rebellious view of the low status of women in 12th century Europe. When the relationship is suspected, Heloise's uncle Fulbert, who had other plans for her marriage, works with the bishop of Paris to put a stop to it. Nevertheless, Abelard and Heloise have a child together and later are secretly married. Abelard faces a struggle with himself for acting against the will of God and yet loves Heloise too.
Dead Man's Folly (1986)
, 1h34Directed by Clive Donner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Tim Pigott-Smith, Jonathan Cecil, Kenneth Cranham
Roles Insp. Bland
Rating62%
Durant un jeu de détective organisé par Arianne Oliver dans un club, un véritable meurtre est commis. Présent parmi les joueurs, Hercule Poirot se met à enquêter, aidé par son fidèle ami de toujours, le capitaine Hastings.
Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983)
, 50minutesDirected by Martin Campbell
Actors Sam Neill, Leo McKern, Tom Bell, Peter Egan, Ian Charleson, Kenneth Cranham
Roles Vladimir Lenin
Rating81%
Joseph Andrews (1977)
, 1h44Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale, Peter C. Bull
Roles The Wicked Squire
Rating56%
Lady Booby alias "Belle", the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, yet Sir Thomas really seeks relief for his sick foot, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. On his way back on foot, he falls prey to highwaymen who rob him of everything, even the clothes on his back. He is found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson. Meanwhile the lady consents to her cousin marrying below their station when learning the fiancée is Joseph's sister, Pamela. The parson barely escapes a wicked gentleman's totally unjust, all but gentle justice after being accused of the attempted rape committed by a squire he actually prevented and comes to learn ever more about a relevant child-theft by gypsies, but meanwhile he, Joseph and Fanny fall prey again to the rapist's utter debauchery.
Robin and Marian (1976)
, 1h46Directed by Richard Lester
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Shaw, Richard Harris, Nicol Williamson, Ronnie Barker
Roles Jack's Apprentice
Rating64%
An aging Robin Hood (Connery) is a trusted captain fighting for King Richard the Lionheart (Harris) in France, the Crusades long over. Richard orders him to take a castle that is rumored to hold a gold statue. Discovering that it is defended by a solitary, one-eyed old man (Esmond Knight) who is sheltering harmless women and children, and convinced that there is no statue, Robin and his right-hand man, Little John (Williamson), refuse to attack. King Richard, angry at their insubordination, orders the pair's execution, but before his orders can be carried out, he is mortally wounded by an arrow thrown by the old man. Richard has the helpless residents massacred, with the exception of the old man, because Richard likes his eye. The King asks Robin to pray for mercy for him. When Robin refuses, Richard draws his sword, but lacks the strength to strike him and falls to the floor. Robin helps him, and moved by his loyalty, with his last words, Richard frees Robin and Little John.
The Changeling (1974)
Directed by Anthony Page
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Helen Mirren, Alan Webb, Brian Cox, T.P. McKenna, Stanley Baker, Norman Rossington
Roles Antonio
Rating71%