5: The iconic roles
Kenneth Cranham tells fellow actor Neil Dudgeon about his life in theatre, TV and film. In this final episode they talk about his iconic roles, and the companies he's worked with.
Actor Kenneth Cranham expounds entertainingly on a life in acting in conversation with friend and colleague Neil Dudgeon. From an early performance in the 1968 film Oliver to winning an Olivier award for the title role in the hit play The Father in the West End, Cranham has worked with an amazing array of writers directors and actors over his sixty-year career.
Kenneth Cranham's career is a privileged lens on the recent history of British theatre and screen. A friend of playwrights Orton, Pinter, and Bond, he was at the epicentre of the radical shift in theatre in the sixties and seventies.
In this final episode, Cranham talks about how the lead role in Shine on Harvey Moon on ITV - the story of an East End family rebuilding itself in post-war Britain - brought him public recognition and a place at a different table, and about the acclaim, more recently, for leading stage roles like the title characters in An Inspector Calls and The Father.
A fluent and passionate speaker, Cranham’s account of his life and work offers a thrilling perspective on the last sixty years of British drama.
An Actor's Life: Kenneth Cranham is a Hooley Production supported by Pimmyompim Productions Limited.
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