Lorcan Cranitch

Lorcan Cranitch

Nascimento : 1959-08-28, Dublin, Ireland

História

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.

Perfil

Lorcan Cranitch

Filmes

Aisha
Peter Flood
Aisha, a young Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Ireland, is floundering in a maze of social services and bureaucracy. As her situation becomes increasingly dire, Aisha struggles to maintain hope and dignity against the looming threat of deportation.
Róise & Frank
Donncha
Grief stricken Róise lost her husband, Frank, two years ago. Her son, Alan, worries about her but the arrival of a mysterious dog seems to bring happiness to her life once more. Róise soon comes to believe that the dog is, in fact, Frank reincarnated. He has come back to be with her again… and to coach the local sports team…
Tarrac
Bear
Tarrac is a contemporary drama set on the coastlines of Kerry in the tough world of Naomhóg racing.
Lakelands
The film centres on local small-town GAA football "outside the bright lights of Croke Park", following a player who struggles to get back into the sport after an injury.
Christmas at Castle Hart
Patrick
Brooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she’s hired to host his castle’s epic Christmas party.
Herself
Michael
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.
Drifting
Diarmuid
Cian and Pat have been joined at the hip since they were kids and have the run of their small town in the midlands. Cian is content to coast through a life of booze and casual hook-ups while Pat has grown weary of his surroundings.
The Dig
Sean McKenna
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. With no memory of the murder, Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of Sean is to help him dig.
My Life for Ireland
Pump man
Ireland, Easter, 1916. In Dublin, Irish rebel Patrick Pearse leads a revolt to free Ireland from the grips of the British Empire. Owen, a young Irish patriot, wants to join them in their fight for freedom.
A Lenda de Longwood
Mickey Miller é uma menina de 12 anos que vive na cidade de Nova York com sua mãe e irmão. Apaixonada por cavalos, ela se muda para uma vila mística na Irlanda, onde descobre uma inesperada ligação com um feitiço de 300 anos sobre um misterioso cavaleiro negro. Lá, Mickey irá lutar para impedir um plano maligno e salvar uma série de cavalos brancos.
Deixa o Amor Entrar
Dennis Dunne
Os jovens britânicos Rosie e Alex são amigos inseparáveis desde a infância, experimentando juntos as dificuldades amorosas, familiares e escolares. Embora exista uma atração entre eles, os dois mantêm a amizade acima de tudo. Um dia, Alex decide aceitar um convite para estudar medicina em Harvard, nos Estados Unidos. A distância entre eles faz com que nasçam os primeiros segredos, enquanto cada um encontra outros namorados e namoradas. Mas o destino continua atraindo Rosie e Alex um ao outro.
O Guia Culinário do Amor
Eddie
O jornalista Oliver Byrne está fazendo sucesso com sua coluna sobre culinária e amor, mas sua vida amorosa é um completo desastre. No entanto, quando ele conhece uma curadora de arte, sente uma atração fortíssima, apesar de não terem nada em comum. Será que ele finalmente achou a receita do amor?
Flying Blind
Duncan Morehouse
Frankie is in her forties, ambitious and successful. She works in the aerospace industry at Filton, designing surveillance drones for the military. Shes never married, and is completely in control of every part of her life. Her closest relationship is with her father, who worked as an engineer on Concorde. But her life changes forever when she embarks on a passionate affair with Kahil, a French/Algerian aerospace student, twenty years younger than her. One day, she arrives at work and is detained by the security services: Kahil is a person of interest to MI5. Her well-ordered life starts to unravel in a welter of suspicion and prejudice, as Frankie no longer knows whether to follow her passion or listen to the doubts that increasingly overwhelm her.
Best: His Mother's Son
Dickie Best
Best – His Mother’s Son (BBC Two) was a gloomy drama about Ann Best, mother of George, who was strictly teetotal until her mid-40s, when she had her first sip of sherry to celebrate her son’s footballing success. Ten years later, she was dead from alcoholism-related heart disease. The recreation of late-Sixties Belfast was accurate and, thank goodness, intelligently subdued: no comedy Ulster accents and no point-scoring subplot about the Troubles.
Summer of the Flying Saucer
Ciaran
It’s Ireland in 1967, when a flying saucer full of aliens lands on Dan’s farm. Dan falls in love with an alien girl and tries his best to make everybody believe that she and all the other aliens are humans.
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
Self
Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.
Omagh
Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
The movie starts at the 1998 bomb attack by the Real IRA at Omagh, Northern Ireland. The attack killed 31 people. Michael Gallagher one of the relatives of the victims starts an examination to bring the people responsible to court.
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
Harold Bradley
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.
Hornblower: Duty
Wolfe
Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.
Hornblower: Loyalty
Wolfe
Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.
My Fragile Heart
Bernard Cleve
Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was accused of killing Trinas best friend many years ago but was never convicted. Another girl is killed and Bernard is again a suspect. Trina thinks he is innocent but places herself in danger in trying to prove it.
A Dança das Paixões
Danny Bradley
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Titanic Town
Tony
Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally shot dead by the IRA, and her neighbours are constantly raided by the army. In this climate of fear she stands up and condemns the murders. Criticising both factions, her call for a ceasefire is interpreted as an attack against the IRA, and as her peace movement takes momentum, she and her family are placed in the frontline.
Macbeth
Macduff
William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Night Train
Billy
A man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go into hiding from the gangster's men. He moves into a Dublin boarding house run by a woman and her timid daughter. The timid woman immediately takes a shine to the new boarder and to his train sets, which they each use as an escape from reality.
Food of Love
Luke
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
The Heart Surgeon
Larry Duggan
Cardiac surgeon Alex Marsden has an affair with Marcella Duggan, but then finds himself having to operate on her husband Larry, who is also his friend.
Deacon Brodie
George Smith
Drama based on the true story of Deacon Brodie one of Scotland's most notorious criminals. In 1788 Deacon Brodie a master cabinet maker and town councillor is a rogue and a hedonist. He steals money but gives it back. He attempts to steal a fortune from the city's Customs and Excise office but the attempt fails and he is caught. There is a widely-publicised trial and he is sentenced to death to be hanged on the gallows he designed.
Dah Dit Dah
Set in Belfast in the 1970's, the film tells the story of a girl, her dad, his lover and their broken lines of communication.
Life After Life
Leo Doyle
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
Family
Tutorial Teacher
This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie's thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who's initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo's treatment of mum; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she's frightened and Paula's furious.
You, Me & Marley
Father Tom
A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.
Romance Proibido
Ryan / John Joe
A young woman, Tara Maguire (Robin Wright) scandalizes her provincial Irish village in the 1950s by having a baby out of a wedlock, and refusing to name the father. She has a rare beauty and every man in town desires her, especially Sergeant Hegarty (Albert Finney). The arrival of a dramatic troupe stirs things up even more, especially when she falls in love with one f the "Playboys", Tom Casey (Aidan Quinn).
A Tragédia de Chernobyl
Chernov
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl.
The Magic Toyshop
Francie
After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.
The Venus de Milo Instead
Mr. Scott
A group of children and their teachers from a Protestant school in Northern Ireland go on a trip to Paris.
Empire State
Richard
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search for his friend who has disappeared in the entrails of the club.
Yield
Eve's Dad
Eve and her father are tasked with removing a dead sheep from a neighbouring farmer's land.
My Forever Love
Donncha
A recently widowed woman believes her husband has returned to her as a dog. Her son and her village think she is just still grieving for him but then the dog starts to train the under 12 hurling team, just as her husband used to!