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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2007The 50 Greatest Television Dramas — Self