Lorcan Cranitch

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Lorcan Cranitch

Lorcan Cranitch (born 28 August 1959) is an Irish actor.

Born in Dublin, Cranitch's first major role on UK television was as Tim Healy in the 1991 BBC drama series, Parnell and the Englishwoman. However, it was as the corrupt DS Beck in Cracker that he became a familiar face to viewers. After being killed off as Beck, he returned to BBC in a part specially written for him, as Sean Dillon in Ballykissangel. Cranitch has appeared in several other UK television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (opposite Billy Connolly), Shackleton (opposite Kenneth Branagh) and Hornblower (opposite Ioan Gruffudd), and in the film, Dancing at Lughnasa. He has appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, notably as John Hall in The Herbal Bed, and has played George Bernard Shaw on BBC radio.

In 2005, he again took a villainous role in the HBO/BBC production of Rome, as the underworld baron Erastes Fulmen, and starred in several episodes of the ITV police soap, The Bill.

He has just completed a film in Galway - "Summer of the Flying Saucers" and a new series for RTÉ due for transmission in Jan 2007.

Cranitch is married to Susan Jackson, a journalist and newsreader with RTÉ.