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Sam Crane

Actor, Director, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1979 (46 years)
Sam Crane is an English actor. He attended Oxford University and LAMDA, where he won the Nicholas Hytner Award for the best actor of his year. He played Farinelli in Claire van Kampen’s Farinelli and the King opposite Mark Rylance at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and reprised his role when the production transferred first to the Duke of York's Theatre and then to the Belasco Theatre on Broadway. He is also known for playing Winston Smith in Headlong's production of 1984 in the West End, Fred Walters in the BBC's six-part drama series Desperate Romantics and Frederick Abberline in Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Syndicate.. In 2017 he played Patrick Plunket in an episode of the Netflix series The Crown.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Midsomer Murders
  • The Christmas Candle

Known For

  • Grand Theft Hamlet
  • Desperate Romantics
  • It's Raining Women
  • The Deal (2025)

Sam Crane Filmography

2025
The Deal (2025) (TV Series)
2024
Grand Theft Hamlet · as Hamlet
2023
Napoleon · as Jacques-Louis David
2023
Transatlantic (TV Series) · as Michael Bretherton
2022
Sister Boniface Mysteries (TV Series) · as Colin Sweet
2022
Trigger Point (2022) (TV Series) · as Anders Larsson
2020
COBRA (2020) (TV Series) · as Dominic Knight
2020
Van der Valk (2020) (TV Series) · as Freddie Klink
2019
The Trial of Christine Keeler (TV Series) · as Alan
2017
Fearless (2017) (TV Series) · as Luke
2016
The Crown (TV Series) · as Patrick Plunket
2015
Poldark (2015) (TV Series) · as Sir Spencer Percival
2013
The Christmas Candle · as Thomas Haddington
2013
Father Brown (2013) (TV Series) · as William Knight
2012
2012
Call the Midwife (TV Series) · as Godfrey Smith
2012
Endeavour (TV Series) · as Dr. Tancred Howlett
2009
Desperate Romantics (TV Series) · as Fred Walters
2008
2003
New Tricks (TV Series) · as Oliver Lebbon
2000
The Sins (TV Series) · as Jason
2000
Doctors (TV Series) · as David Kinnison
1997
Midsomer Murders (TV Series) · as Daniel Talbot
1989
Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) · as Lieutenant Blanchflower
1986
Casualty (TV Series) · as Jim Prentice

2024
Grand Theft Hamlet · as Executive Producer

1982
Channel 4 News (TV Series) · as Self

2022
It's Raining Women · as Narration Co-Writer

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