Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884–1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Wise Men, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator; He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. In one of his very last performances, Currie plays a dying mafioso boss in the two part "Vendetta For The Saint" (1968) starring Roger Moore. Later in life he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals. He had been a long time collector of the works of Robert Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Finlay Currie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Acted Movies
Director: Otto Preminger
Writers: Penelope Mortimer,
Cast: Adrienne Corri, Anna Massey, Carol Lynley, Clive Revill, Finlay Currie, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Mannheim, Martita Hunt, Noël Coward,
Director: John Schlesinger
Writers: Willis Hall,
Cast: Ethel Griffies, Finlay Currie, Gwendolyn Watts, Helen Fraser, Julie Christie, Leonard Rossiter, Mona Washbourne, Rodney Bewes, Tom Courtenay, Wilfred Pickles,
Director: William Wyler
Writers: Karl Tunberg,
Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Charlton Heston, Finlay Currie, Frank Thring, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Martha Scott, Sam Jaffe, Stephen Boyd,
Director: Richard Thorpe
Writers: Marguerite Roberts,
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Emlyn Williams, Felix Aylmer, Finlay Currie, Francis de Wolff, George Sanders, Joan Fontaine, Norman Wooland, Robert Douglas, Robert Taylor,
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Writers: John Lee Mahin,
Cast: Abraham Sofaer, Buddy Baer, Deborah Kerr, Felix Aylmer, Finlay Currie, Leo Genn, Marina Berti, Patricia Laffan, Peter Ustinov, Robert Taylor,
Director: Byron Haskin
Writers: Lawrence Edward Watkin,
Cast: Basil Sydney, Bobby Driscoll, Denis O'Dea, Finlay Currie, Geoffrey Keen, Geoffrey Wilkinson, John Laurie, Ralph Truman, Robert Newton, Walter Fitzgerald,
Director: David Lean
Writers: David Lean,
Cast: Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Ivor Barnard, Jean Simmons, John Mills, Martita Hunt, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson,
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Writers: Emeric Pressburger,
Cast: Catherine Lacey, Finlay Currie, George Carney, Jean Cadell, John Laurie, Nancy Price, Pamela Brown, Roger Livesey, Valentine Dyall, Wendy Hiller,