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Lorcan Cranitch is a Actor born on 28 august 1959 at Dublin (Irlande)
Lorcan Cranitch (born 28 August 1959) is an Irish actor.
Born in Dublin, Lorcan Cranitch became involved in drama while a student, and in 1980, he moved to London where he trained at RADA. His first major role on British television was as Tim Healy in the 1991 BBC drama series, Parnell and the Englishwoman. It was as the troubled DS Jimmy Beck in Cracker (1993-1995) that he became a familiar face to viewers. When he informed the producers of his intention to leave the show following the second season, his character was killed off in a spectacular suicide scene in October 1995.
Following Cracker, he returned to the BBC in a part specially written for him, as Sean Dillon in Ballykissangel. In 2001, he starred in the short-lived drama series McCready and Daughter, taking on a role originally intended for his former Ballykissangel co-star, Tony Doyle, who died shortly before the series was due to be filmed. He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks. In 2005, he took a villainous role in the HBO/BBC production of Rome, as the underworld baron Erastes Fulmen. In the 2009 BBC drama Best: His Mother's Son, he played Dickie Best, the father of footballer George Best.
Lorcan briefly appeared in Episode 5 of the Sky Atlantic Series, Fortitude.
On film he has appeared in Dancing at Lughnasa with Meryl Streep, The Playboys and Titanic Town.
He has combined this with stage work with The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar West End, and The Abbey and The Gate theatres in Dublin.
He is married to Susan Jackson, a journalist and newsreader with RTÉ. The couple adopted an Ethiopian child in 2011.
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Born in Dublin, Lorcan Cranitch became involved in drama while a student, and in 1980, he moved to London where he trained at RADA. His first major role on British television was as Tim Healy in the 1991 BBC drama series, Parnell and the Englishwoman. It was as the troubled DS Jimmy Beck in Cracker (1993-1995) that he became a familiar face to viewers. When he informed the producers of his intention to leave the show following the second season, his character was killed off in a spectacular suicide scene in October 1995.
Following Cracker, he returned to the BBC in a part specially written for him, as Sean Dillon in Ballykissangel. In 2001, he starred in the short-lived drama series McCready and Daughter, taking on a role originally intended for his former Ballykissangel co-star, Tony Doyle, who died shortly before the series was due to be filmed. He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks. In 2005, he took a villainous role in the HBO/BBC production of Rome, as the underworld baron Erastes Fulmen. In the 2009 BBC drama Best: His Mother's Son, he played Dickie Best, the father of footballer George Best.
Lorcan briefly appeared in Episode 5 of the Sky Atlantic Series, Fortitude.
On film he has appeared in Dancing at Lughnasa with Meryl Streep, The Playboys and Titanic Town.
He has combined this with stage work with The Royal National Theatre, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar West End, and The Abbey and The Gate theatres in Dublin.
He is married to Susan Jackson, a journalist and newsreader with RTÉ. The couple adopted an Ethiopian child in 2011.
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Love, Rosie (2014)
, 1h42Directed by Christian Ditter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lily Collins, Sam Claflin, Peter Gallagher, Tamsin Egerton, Jaime Winstone, Suki Waterhouse
Roles Dennis Dunne
Rating71%
Alex and Rosie have been best friends for almost as long as they can remember. After depicting their time together as children, the movie jumps to Rosie making a speech at what appears to be a wedding, while staring at Alex, implying it may be his wedding but not hers. The movie switches to 12 years earlier, where Rosie is upset because of getting drunk during her 18th birthday. Alex comes over to discuss the previous night's events but pauses when Rosie tells him how she wished it never happened. The pair later go to the beach together to attend a party where 'the fittest guy in [their]grade' asks Rosie to the school dance, which she rejects saying she is going with Alex. Alex later tells her that an attractive and 'out of his league' girl named Bethany wants to go with him. After a fight between the two, Alex and Bethany go to the dance along with Greg and Rosie. After some dancing, Bethany and Alex share a passionate kiss and Greg and Rosie get a private room. The two then have sex but due to Greg's inexperience, the condom comes off and gets stuck inside Rosie. She immediately calls Alex who gets her to a hospital then takes her home.
Best: His Mother's Son (2009)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Tom Payne, Michelle Fairley, Luke de Woolfson, Lorcan Cranitch, Laura Donnelly, Richard Dormer
Roles Dickie Best
Rating70%
God on Trial (2008)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Antony Sher, Rupert Graves, Jack Shepherd, Josef Altin, Dominic Cooper, Lorcan Cranitch
Roles Blockaltester
Rating75%
Summer of the Flying Saucer (2008)
Directed by Martin Duffy
Genres Science fiction
Actors Robert Sheehan, Lorcan Cranitch, Hugh O'Conor
Roles Ciaran
Rating51%
Omagh (2005)
, 1h46Directed by Pete Travis
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films, Conflit nord-irlandais
Actors Gerard McSorley, Brenda Fricker, Stuart Graham, Brendan Coyle, Fiona Glascott, Stanley Townsend
Roles Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
Rating71%
Samedi 15 août 1998, ville d'Omagh en Irlande du Nord. A 15h10, lorsque la bombe de 250 kg explose dans le quartier commerçant de Market Street, elle tue 29 personnes et en blesse plus de 250 autres. Cet attentat, le plus meurtrier du conflit nord-irlandais, est revendiqué par le Real IRA, groupe dissident de l'Armée Républicaine Irlandaise. Un mois plus tard, en dépit des engagements solennels de Londres et de Dublin, les responsables de l'attentat continuent à échapper aux policiers des deux Irlandes. Certaines sources affirment que la police connaît l'identité des coupables, mais ne les attrapera jamais, faute d'éléments à charge. En colère, les habitants d'Omagh décident de constituer une association d'aide aux victimes. Un homme, Michael Gallagher, dont le fils, Aiden, est mort lors de cet attentat, devient le porte-parole des familles.
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)
Directed by Colin Nutley
Genres Drama
Actors Helena Bergström, Lorcan Cranitch, Lindsay Duncan, Tim Dutton, Rolf Holger Lassgård, Natasha Little
Roles Harold Bradley
Rating53%
Shackleton (TV serial) (2002)
, 3h26Directed by Charles Sturridge
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kenneth Branagh, Kevin McNally, John Grillo, Eve Best, Lorcan Cranitch, Embeth Davidtz
Roles Frank Wild
Rating76%
The films tells the true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) and his 1914 Antarctic expedition on the ship Endurance. The story begins with him planning the expedition and finding sponsors, particularly Sir James Caird. Shackleton's goal is to drive dog sled teams from one side of Antarctica to the other, which would make Britain the first nation to undertake such a trans-continental journey.
Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
, 1h35Directed by Pat O'Connor
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Michael Gambon, Catherine McCormack, Kathy Burke, Sophie Thompson, Bríd Brennan
Roles Danny Bradley
Rating62%
1936. Cinq sœurs vivant ensemble dans le comté de Donegal élèvent le fils illégitime de l'une d'elles, Michael. Leur vie va être bouleversée par le retour de leur grand frère, Jack, qui vient de passer 25 ans comme missionnaire en Afrique, puis par celui de Gerry, le père volage de Michael, aventurier en route pour l'Espagne.
Night Train (1998)
, 1h32Directed by John Lynch
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Hurt, Brenda Blethyn, Rynagh O'Grady, Peter Caffrey, Lorcan Cranitch, John Lynch
Roles Billy
Rating62%
Titanic Town (1998)
, 1h40Directed by Roger Michell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Julie Walters, Ciarán Hinds, Ciarán McMenamin, Oliver Ford Davies, Nicholas Woodeson, Lorcan Cranitch
Roles Tony
Rating63%
Macbeth (1998)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Sean Pertwee, Greta Scacchi, Richard Coyle, Michael Maloney, Jack Davenport, Lorcan Cranitch
Roles Macduff
Rating59%
Food of Love (1997)
, 1h45Directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Richard E. Grant, Rupert Penry-Jones, Nathalie Baye, Joe McGann, Sylvia Syms, Nicola Duffett
Roles Luke
Rating49%
The Playboys (1992)
, 1h50Directed by Gillies MacKinnon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Albert Finney, Aidan Quinn, Robin Wright, Ian McElhinney, Milo O'Shea, Niamh Cusack
Roles Ryan / John Joe
Rating61%
In a small Irish village in 1957, Tara Maguire, a young resolute woman, is the talk of the town because she is having a baby out of wedlock, and refuses to name the father. During Sunday mass she goes into labour giving birth to a baby boy. The town's constable, Brendan Hegarty, and Mick, a local landowner vie for Tara's hand in marriage, but she refuses them both.
You, Me & Marley (1992)
, 1h24Genres Comedy
Actors Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Gregory, Tony Doyle, Lorcan Cranitch, James Greene, Ian McElhinney
Roles Father Tom
Rating72%
Filmed in Hattersley and Sholver, Oldham, Greater Manchester but set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during 'The Troubles,' You, Me & Marley centres around the lives of five Catholic friends as they go about stealing cars and joyriding much to the distaste of the rest of the community.
Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991)
, 1h35Directed by Anthony Page
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Historical
Themes Environmental films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about nuclear technology, Documentary films about technology
Actors Jon Voight, Jason Robards, Sammi Davis, Annette Crosbie, Ian McDiarmid, Vincent Riotta
Roles Chernov
Rating61%
Based on a true account of events, the plot interweaves the stories of a fireman at the nuclear power plant, his pregnant wife, the government officials whose policies helped and hindered rescue efforts and America's Dr. Robert Gale (Jon Voight), who led the international medical team that helped treat survivors of the disaster. Robert Gale published the original account of his experiences under the same title in 1988 with Thomas Hauser; it was adapted by Ernest Kinoy for the screenplay.