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