Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor. He starred in the title role in the popular 1980s comedy drama Shine on Harvey Moon. He also appeared in Layer Cake, Gangster No. 1, Rome, Oliver! and many other films. He is probably best known to horror genre fans as the deranged Dr. Philip Channard and his Cenobitic alter-ego from Hellbound: Hellraiser II. His many stage credits include 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). Most recently, he has been heard on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series as "DS Max Matthews" in the three-play series The Interrogation by Roy Williams.
Cranham was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the son of Lochgelly-born Margaret McKay Cranham (née Ferguson) and Ronald Cranham, a London-born civil servant. He has two daughters: Nancy Cranham with his first wife, Charlotte Cornwell, and Kathleen Cranham with his second wife, actress Fiona Victory.
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“More than a thousand years it is since she
Was beautiful: she trod the living grass;
She saw the clouds.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)