Lorcan Cranitch
Acting1959Dublin, Ireland
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
Acting History
2026
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
as Michael Flaherty
The Three Urns
as Liam
2025
Trespasses
TVas Sergeant Reid
Silent Witness
TVas Colin McGrath• 2 eps
2022
2021
Christmas at Castle Hart
as Patrick
Bloodlands
TVas DCS Jackie Twomey• 10 eps
2019
The Dig
as Sean McKenna
Vera
TVas Roy Brewer• 1 eps
Les Misérables
TVas Chief Inspector / Prefect of Police• 2 eps
2018
Rig 45
TVas Adam
2017
Take Me Swimming
as Interviewer
Acceptable Risk
TVas CS James Nulty
2016
My Life for Ireland
as Pump man
Death in Paradise
TVas Tosh Walker• 1 eps
2015
The Last Kingdom
TVas Father Selbix
Fortitude
TVas DI Littlejohn• 11 eps
Code of a Killer
TVas DI Alan Madden• 2 eps
2014
Love, Rosie
as Dennis Dunne
The Legend of Longwood
as Lance Wicklow
Atlantis
TVas Cilix• 12 eps
The Crimson Field
TVas Sergeant Aloysius McCafferty
2013
The Food Guide to Love
as Eddie
Flying Blind
as Duncan Morehouse
1916 Seachtar Dearmadta
TVas James Connolly
2011
Lewis
TVas Liam Cullen• 1 eps
2009
Best: His Mother's Son
as Dickie Best
Paradox
TVas Simon Manning• 5 eps
2008
God on Trial
as Blockaltester
Summer of the Flying Saucer
as Ciaran
Waking the Dead
TVas Victor Coleridge• 2 eps
The Palace
TVas Jonty Roberts
2007
The Dead Peasants Society
as Patrick Cunningham
2004
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Harold Bradley
2003
2002
Shackleton
TVas Frank Wild
Spooks
TVas Patrick McCann• 2 eps
2001
Rebel Heart
TVas Inspector Nelson
2000
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa
as Danny Bradley
Night Train
as Billy
Macbeth
as Macduff
Titanic Town
as Tony
Close Relations
TVas Stephen
1997
Deacon Brodie
as George Smith
The Heart Surgeon
as Larry Duggan
Food of Love
as Luke
The Heart Surgeon
TVas Larry Duggan
1996
Ballykissangel
TVas Sean Dillon
1995
Life After Life
as Leo Doyle
Screen Two
TVas Leo Doyle• 1 eps
1994
Family
as Tutorial Teacher
1993
Cracker
TVas DS Jimmy Beck• 19 eps
1992
The Playboys
as Ryan / John Joe
You, Me & Marley
as Father Tom
1991
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Chernov
1987
1984