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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World as Michael Flaherty
2025Cooper & Fry as DI Paul Hitchens
2025Trespasses as Sergeant Reid
2025Leonard and Hungry Paul
2023Tarrac as Bear
2023Ghosts as Jacob Engstrand
2023Lakelands
2023LOLA as Major. General Norbury
2022Aisha as Peter Flood
2022Róise & Frank as Donncha
2022Burn It All as M. Barrett
2021Christmas at Castle Hart as Patrick
2021Bloodlands as DCS Jackie Twomey
2020Herself as Michael
2020Drifting as Diarmuid
2019The Dig as Sean McKenna
2018Les Misérables as Chief Inspector
2018Les Misérables as Prefect of Police
2018Rig 45 as Adam
2017Take Me Swimming as Interviewer
2017Acceptable Risk as CS James Nulty
2016The Crown as Commissioner Stevens
2016My Life for Ireland as Pump man
2015Code of a Killer as DI Alan Madden
2015Fortitude as DI Littlejohn
2014The Legend of Longwood as Lance Wicklow
2014Love, Rosie as Dennis Dunne
2013Moonfleet
2013The Food Guide to Love as Eddie
20131916 Seachtar Dearmadta as James Connolly
2013Atlantis as Cilix
2013Flying Blind as Duncan Morehouse
2011Death in Paradise as Tosh Walker
2011Vera as Roy Brewer
2009Paradox as Simon Manning
2009Best: His Mother's Son as Dickie Best
2009Law & Order: UK
2008God on Trial as Blockaltester
2008Summer of the Flying Saucer as Ciaran
2008The Palace as Jonty Roberts
2007The Dead Peasants Society as Patrick Cunningham
2007Lewis as Liam Cullen
2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas as Self
2006The Play's the Thing
2005Rome as Erastes Fulmen
2005Omagh as Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
2004The Queen of Sheba's Pearls as Harold Bradley
2003Hornblower: Duty as Wolfe
2003Hornblower: Loyalty as Wolfe
2002Spooks as Patrick McCann
2002Shackleton as Frank Wild
2001Waking the Dead as Victor Coleridge
2001Rebel Heart as Inspector Nelson
2000My Fragile Heart as Bernard Cleve
2000McCready and Daughter
2000Rebus as Thomas Steele
1998Hornblower as Wolfe
1998Dancing at Lughnasa as Danny Bradley
1998Titanic Town as Tony
1998Close Relations as Stephen
1998Macbeth as Macduff
1998Night Train as Billy
1997Food of Love as Luke
1997The Heart Surgeon as Larry Duggan
1997The Heart Surgeon as Larry Duggan
1997Deacon Brodie as George Smith
1996Dah Dit Dah
1996Silent Witness as Colin McGrath
1996Ballykissangel as Sean Dillon
1995Life After Life as Leo Doyle
1994Family as Tutorial Teacher
1993Cracker as DS Jimmy Beck
1992You, Me & Marley as Father Tom
1992The Playboys as Ryan / John Joe
1991Chernobyl: The Final Warning as Chernov
1987The Magic Toyshop as Francie
1987The Venus de Milo Instead as Mr. Scott
1987Empire State as Richard
1985Screen Two as Leo Doyle
1984The Bill
—Yield as Eve's Dad
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