Lorcan Cranitch
Acting • AGE 66
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.
Acting
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
Michael Flaherty
2026
The Three Urns
Liam
2026
Cooper & Fry
DI Paul Hitchens
2025
Trespasses
Sergeant Reid
2025
Leonard and Hungry Paul
Peter
2025
A Greyhound of a Girl
Male Judge (voice)
2023
Tarrac
Bear
2023
Ghosts
Jacob Engstrand
2023
Lakelands
2023
LOLA
Major. General Norbury
2023
Aisha
Peter Flood
2022
Róise & Frank
Donncha
2022
Burn It All
M. Barrett
2022
Christmas at Castle Hart
Patrick
2021
Bloodlands
DCS Jackie Twomey
2021
Herself
Michael
2020
Drifting
Diarmuid
2020
The Dig
Sean McKenna
2019
Les Misérables
Chief Inspector
2018
Rig 45
Adam
2018
Take Me Swimming
Interviewer
2017
Acceptable Risk
CS James Nulty
2017
The Crown
Commissioner Stevens
2016
My Life for Ireland
Pump man
2016
The Last Kingdom
Father Selbix
2015
Code of a Killer
DI Alan Madden
2015
Fortitude
DI Littlejohn
2015
The Legend of Longwood
Lance Wicklow
2014
Love, Rosie
Dennis Dunne
2014
The Crimson Field
Sergeant Aloysius McCafferty
2014
Moonfleet
2013
The Food Guide to Love
Eddie
2013
Atlantis
Cilix
2013
Flying Blind
Duncan Morehouse
2013
Death in Paradise
Tosh Walker
2011
Vera
Roy Brewer
2011
Paradox
Simon Manning
2009
Best: His Mother's Son
Dickie Best
2009
Law & Order: UK
2009
God on Trial
Blockaltester
2008
Summer of the Flying Saucer
Ciaran
2008
The Palace
Jonty Roberts
2008
The Dead Peasants Society
Patrick Cunningham
2007
Lewis
Liam Cullen
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
2007
Rome
Erastes Fulmen
2005
Omagh
Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
2005
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Harold Bradley
2004
Hornblower: Duty
Wolfe
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
Wolfe
2003
Spooks
Patrick McCann
2002
Shackleton
Frank Wild
2002
Waking the Dead
Victor Coleridge
2001
Rebel Heart
Inspector Nelson
2001
My Fragile Heart
Bernard Cleve
2000
McCready and Daughter
2000
Rebus
Thomas Steele
2000
Hornblower
Wolfe
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa
Danny Bradley
1998
Titanic Town
Tony
1998
Close Relations
Stephen
1998
Macbeth
Macduff
1998
Night Train
Billy
1998
Food of Love
Luke
1997
The Heart Surgeon
Larry Duggan
1997
The Heart Surgeon
Larry Duggan
1997
Deacon Brodie
George Smith
1997
Silent Witness
Colin McGrath
1996
Ballykissangel
Sean Dillon
1996
Life After Life
Leo Doyle
1995
Family
Tutorial Teacher
1994
Cracker
DS Jimmy Beck
1993
You, Me & Marley
Father Tom
1992
The Playboys
Ryan / John Joe
1992
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
Chernov
1991
Empire State
Richard
1987
Screen Two
Leo Doyle
1985
The Bill
1984
Yield
Eve's Dad