Lorcan Cranitch

Known for: Acting

Born: 1959-08-28 (age 66)

From: Dublin, Ireland

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.

Filmography (86)

MOVIE
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
2026
as Michael Flaherty
MOVIE
The Three Urns
2026
as Liam
TV★ 7.8
Cooper & Fry
2025
as DI Paul Hitchens
TV★ 6.5
Trespasses
2025
as Sergeant Reid
TV★ 7.1
Leonard and Hungry Paul
2025
as Peter
MOVIE★ 6.7
A Greyhound of a Girl
2023
as Male Judge (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.0
Tarrac
2023
as Bear
MOVIE
Ghosts
2023
as Jacob Engstrand
MOVIE★ 4.6
Lakelands
2023
MOVIE★ 6.4
LOLA
2023
as Major. General Norbury
MOVIE★ 6.1
Aisha
2022
as Peter Flood
MOVIE★ 6.4
Róise & Frank
2022
as Donncha
MOVIE★ 3.0
Burn It All
2022
as M. Barrett
MOVIE★ 6.3
Christmas at Castle Hart
2021
as Patrick
TV★ 6.7
Bloodlands
2021
as DCS Jackie Twomey
MOVIE★ 6.7
Herself
2020
as Michael
MOVIE★ 5.0
Drifting
2020
as Diarmuid
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Dig
2019
as Sean McKenna
TV★ 7.4
Les Misérables
2018
as Chief Inspector
TV★ 5.9
Rig 45
2018
as Adam
MOVIE
Take Me Swimming
2017
as Interviewer
TV★ 6.6
Acceptable Risk
2017
as CS James Nulty
TV★ 8.2
The Crown
2016
as Commissioner Stevens
MOVIE★ 4.0
My Life for Ireland
2016
as Pump man
TV★ 8.3
The Last Kingdom
2015
as Father Selbix
TV★ 7.3
Code of a Killer
2015
as DI Alan Madden
TV★ 6.8
Fortitude
2015
as DI Littlejohn
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Legend of Longwood
2014
as Lance Wicklow
MOVIE★ 7.8
Love, Rosie
2014
as Dennis Dunne
TV★ 7.5
The Crimson Field
2014
as Sergeant Aloysius McCafferty
TV★ 4.0
Moonfleet
2013
MOVIE★ 5.3
The Food Guide to Love
2013
as Eddie
TV★ 2.0
1916 Seachtar Dearmadta
2013
as James Connolly
TV★ 6.4
Atlantis
2013
as Cilix
MOVIE★ 4.8
Flying Blind
2013
as Duncan Morehouse
TV★ 7.5
Death in Paradise
2011
as Tosh Walker
TV★ 7.4
Vera
2011
as Roy Brewer
TV★ 6.8
Paradox
2009
as Simon Manning
MOVIE★ 5.0
Best: His Mother's Son
2009
as Dickie Best
TV★ 7.0
Law & Order: UK
2009
MOVIE★ 6.8
God on Trial
2008
as Blockaltester
MOVIE
Summer of the Flying Saucer
2008
as Ciaran
TV★ 7.0
The Palace
2008
as Jonty Roberts
MOVIE
The Dead Peasants Society
2007
as Patrick Cunningham
TV★ 7.6
Lewis
2007
as Liam Cullen
MOVIE
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
as Self
TV
The Play's the Thing
2006
TV★ 8.2
Rome
2005
as Erastes Fulmen
MOVIE★ 6.6
Omagh
2005
as Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
MOVIE★ 5.7
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
as Harold Bradley
MOVIE★ 7.3
Hornblower: Duty
2003
as Wolfe
MOVIE★ 7.2
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
as Wolfe
TV★ 7.7
Spooks
2002
as Patrick McCann
TV★ 7.2
Shackleton
2002
as Frank Wild
TV★ 7.2
Waking the Dead
2001
as Victor Coleridge
TV★ 7.3
Rebel Heart
2001
as Inspector Nelson
MOVIE★ 8.0
My Fragile Heart
2000
as Bernard Cleve
TV
McCready and Daughter
2000
TV★ 6.9
Rebus
2000
as Thomas Steele
TV★ 7.8
Hornblower
1998
as Wolfe
MOVIE★ 6.0
Dancing at Lughnasa
1998
as Danny Bradley
MOVIE★ 5.3
Titanic Town
1998
as Tony
TV★ 3.3
Close Relations
1998
as Stephen
MOVIE★ 4.8
Macbeth
1998
as Macduff
MOVIE★ 7.0
Night Train
1998
as Billy
MOVIE★ 4.0
Food of Love
1997
as Luke
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Heart Surgeon
1997
as Larry Duggan
TV★ 4.3
The Heart Surgeon
1997
as Larry Duggan
MOVIE★ 9.5
Deacon Brodie
1997
as George Smith
MOVIE★ 10.0
Dah Dit Dah
1996
TV★ 7.6
Silent Witness
1996
as Colin McGrath
TV★ 7.2
Ballykissangel
1996
as Sean Dillon
MOVIE★ 10.0
Life After Life
1995
as Leo Doyle
MOVIE★ 8.0
Family
1994
as Tutorial Teacher
TV★ 6.6
Cracker
1993
as DS Jimmy Beck
MOVIE★ 6.2
You, Me & Marley
1992
as Father Tom
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Playboys
1992
as Ryan / John Joe
MOVIE★ 5.8
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
as Chernov
TV
Parnell & the Englishwoman
1991
as Timothy Healy
MOVIE★ 6.0
The Magic Toyshop
1987
as Francie
MOVIE★ 9.0
The Venus de Milo Instead
1987
as Mr. Scott
MOVIE★ 5.1
Empire State
1987
as Richard
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Leo Doyle
TV★ 6.8
The Bill
1984
MOVIE
Yield
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as Eve's Dad
TV
Kelly
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