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

Death in Paradise
2016
Silent Witness
2025
The Crown
2023
Vera
2019
The Bill
1996
Rome
2005
Lewis
2011
The Last Kingdom
2015
Screen Two
1995
Spooks
2002
Waking the Dead
2008
Law & Order: UK
2011

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
89
2026
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
as Michael Flaherty
2026
The Three Urns
as Liam
2025
Silent Witness
as Colin McGrath
2025
Trespasses
as Sergeant Reid
2025
Cooper & Fry
as DI Paul Hitchens
2025
Leonard and Hungry Paul
as Peter
2023
Lakelands
2023
Ghosts
as Jacob Engstrand
2023
LOLA
as Major. General Norbury
2023
Tarrac
as Bear
2023
A Greyhound of a Girl
as Male Judge (voice)
2023
The Crown
as Commissioner Stevens
2022
Aisha
as Peter Flood
2022
Róise & Frank
as Donncha
2022
Burn It All
as M. Barrett
2022
Magpie Murders
as Sir Magnus Pye / Max Ryeland
2021
Christmas at Castle Hart
as Patrick
2021
Bloodlands
as DCS Jackie Twomey
2020
Herself
as Michael
2020
Drifting
as Diarmuid
2020
Rig 45
as Adam
2019
The Dig
as Sean McKenna
2019
Vera
as Roy Brewer
2019
Les Misérables
as Chief Inspector
2019
Les Misérables
as Prefect of Police
2017
Take Me Swimming
as Interviewer
2017
Acceptable Risk
as CS James Nulty
2016
My Life for Ireland
as Pump man
2016
Death in Paradise
as Tosh Walker
2015
Fortitude
as DI Littlejohn
2015
Code of a Killer
as DI Alan Madden
2015
The Last Kingdom
as Father Selbix
2014
The Legend of Longwood
as Lance Wicklow
2014
Love, Rosie
as Dennis Dunne
2014
Atlantis
as Cilix
2014
The Crimson Field
as Sergeant Aloysius McCafferty
2013
Flying Blind
as Duncan Morehouse
2013
The Food Guide to Love
as Eddie
2013
Moonfleet
2013
1916 Seachtar Dearmadta
as James Connolly
2011
Law & Order: UK
2011
Lewis
as Liam Cullen
2011
Silent Witness
as D.S. Mansfield
2009
Best: His Mother's Son
as Dickie Best
2009
Paradox
as Simon Manning
2008
God on Trial
as Blockaltester
2008
Summer of the Flying Saucer
as Ciaran
2008
The Palace
as Jonty Roberts
2008
Waking the Dead
as Victor Coleridge
2007
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
as Self
2007
The Dead Peasants Society
as Patrick Cunningham
2007
Rebus
as Thomas Steele
2006
The Play's the Thing
2005
Omagh
as Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan
2005
Rome
as Erastes Fulmen
2004
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
as Harold Bradley
2003
Hornblower: Loyalty
as Wolfe
2003
Hornblower: Duty
as Wolfe
2003
Hornblower
as Wolfe
2002
Spooks
as Patrick McCann
2002
Shackleton
as Frank Wild
2002
Kelly
2001
Rebel Heart
as Inspector Nelson
2001
McCready and Daughter
2000
My Fragile Heart
as Bernard Cleve
1998
Dancing at Lughnasa
as Danny Bradley
1998
Macbeth
as Macduff
1998
Night Train
as Billy
1998
Titanic Town
as Tony
1998
Ballykissangel
as Sean Dillon
1998
Close Relations
as Stephen
1997
The Heart Surgeon
as Larry Duggan
1997
Deacon Brodie
as George Smith
1997
Food of Love
as Luke
1997
The Heart Surgeon
as Larry Duggan
1996
Dah Dit Dah
1996
The Bill
1995
Life After Life
as Leo Doyle
1995
Screen Two
as Leo Doyle
1994
Family
as Tutorial Teacher
1993
Cracker
as DS Jimmy Beck
1992
The Playboys
as Ryan / John Joe
1992
You, Me & Marley
as Father Tom
1991
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
as Chernov
1991
Parnell & the Englishwoman
as Timothy Healy
1987
Empire State
as Richard
1987
The Venus de Milo Instead
as Mr. Scott
1987
The Magic Toyshop
as Francie
Yield
as Eve's Dad