FrameThrower · Actors · Kenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham
5 films · 318 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1988–2014
Born 12 December 1944 · Dunfermline - Scotland - UK
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 Hellraiser II. In more recent years he has starred in the HBO series Rome, as well as the films Hot Fuzz, Layer Cake, Valkyrie, Made in Dagenham, Maleficent and Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 318 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Kenneth takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 44% of their frames are night, 46% low key — the look of the work Kenneth takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 318 frames from Kenneth Cranham's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.