Lorcan Cranitch
Biography
Lorcan Cranitch is an Irish actor born in Dublin on 28 August 1959. He is known for playing DS Jimmy Beck in the television series Cracker.
Known For
All Movies (47)
- National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World2026 · as Michael Flaherty
- The Three Urns2026 · as Liam
- A Greyhound of a Girl2023 · as Male Judge (voice)
- Tarrac2023 · as Bear
- Ghosts2023 · as Jacob Engstrand
- Lakelands2023
- LOLA2023 · as Major. General Norbury
- Aisha2022 · as Peter Flood
- Róise & Frank2022 · as Donncha
- Burn It All2022 · as M. Barrett
- Christmas at Castle Hart2021 · as Patrick
- Herself2020 · as Michael
- Drifting2020 · as Diarmuid
- The Dig2019 · as Sean McKenna
- Take Me Swimming2017 · as Interviewer
- My Life for Ireland2016 · as Pump man
- The Legend of Longwood2014 · as Lance Wicklow
- Love, Rosie2014 · as Dennis Dunne
- The Food Guide to Love2013 · as Eddie
- Flying Blind2013 · as Duncan Morehouse
- Best: His Mother's Son2009 · as Dickie Best
- God on Trial2008 · as Blockaltester
- Summer of the Flying Saucer2008 · as Ciaran
- The Dead Peasants Society2007 · as Patrick Cunningham
- The 50 Greatest Television Dramas2007 · as Self
- Omagh2005 · as Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
- The Queen of Sheba's Pearls2004 · as Harold Bradley
- Hornblower: Duty2003 · as Wolfe
- Hornblower: Loyalty2003 · as Wolfe
- My Fragile Heart2000 · as Bernard Cleve
- Dancing at Lughnasa1998 · as Danny Bradley
- Titanic Town1998 · as Tony
- Macbeth1998 · as Macduff
- Night Train1998 · as Billy
- Food of Love1997 · as Luke
- The Heart Surgeon1997 · as Larry Duggan
- Deacon Brodie1997 · as George Smith
- Dah Dit Dah1996
- Life After Life1995 · as Leo Doyle
- Family1994 · as Tutorial Teacher
- You, Me & Marley1992 · as Father Tom
- The Playboys1992 · as Ryan / John Joe
- Chernobyl: The Final Warning1991 · as Chernov
- The Magic Toyshop1987 · as Francie
- The Venus de Milo Instead1987 · as Mr. Scott
- Empire State1987 · as Richard
- Yield— · as Eve's Dad
All TV Shows (39)
- Cooper & Fry2025 · as DI Paul Hitchens
- Trespasses2025 · as Sergeant Reid
- Leonard and Hungry Paul2025 · as Peter
- Bloodlands2021 · as DCS Jackie Twomey
- Les Misérables2018 · as Chief Inspector
- Les Misérables2018 · as Prefect of Police
- Rig 452018 · as Adam
- Acceptable Risk2017 · as CS James Nulty
- The Crown2016 · as Commissioner Stevens
- The Last Kingdom2015 · as Father Selbix
- Code of a Killer2015 · as DI Alan Madden
- Fortitude2015 · as DI Littlejohn
- The Crimson Field2014 · as Sergeant Aloysius McCafferty
- Moonfleet2013
- 1916 Seachtar Dearmadta2013 · as James Connolly
- Atlantis2013 · as Cilix
- Death in Paradise2011 · as Tosh Walker
- Vera2011 · as Roy Brewer
- Paradox2009 · as Simon Manning
- Law & Order: UK2009
- The Palace2008 · as Jonty Roberts
- Lewis2007 · as Liam Cullen
- The Play's the Thing2006
- Rome2005 · as Erastes Fulmen
- Spooks2002 · as Patrick McCann
- Shackleton2002 · as Frank Wild
- Waking the Dead2001 · as Victor Coleridge
- Rebel Heart2001 · as Inspector Nelson
- McCready and Daughter2000
- Rebus2000 · as Thomas Steele
- Hornblower1998 · as Wolfe
- Close Relations1998 · as Stephen
- The Heart Surgeon1997 · as Larry Duggan
- Silent Witness1996 · as Colin McGrath
- Ballykissangel1996 · as Sean Dillon
- Cracker1993 · as DS Jimmy Beck
- Screen Two1985 · as Leo Doyle
- The Bill1984
- Kelly—