Finlay Currie
Known for: Acting
Born: January 19, 1878
Died: May 9, 1968
Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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.
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Filmography
109 movies · 10 TV shows, newest first
6.8
Vendetta for The Saint
1969
5.5
Les Misérables
1967
7.7
The Prisoner
1967
6.0
Alice in Wonderland
1966
7.0
Brigadoon
1966
7.2
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965NR
Knock on Any Door
1965
4.4
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
7.0
Gideon's Way
1965
7.7
Who Was Maddox?
1964
6.5
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
6.8
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963
6.9
West 11
1963
6.8
Billy Liar
1963
7.1
Cleopatra
1963
7.1
Murder at the Gallop
1963
6.6
The Cracksman
1963
6.5
The Amorous Prawn
1962
7.4
The Saint
1962
7.2
Man of the World
1962
7.1
The Inspector
1962
6.3
Go to Blazes
1962
6.2
Joseph and His Brethren
1961
7.0
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
7.7
Francis of Assisi
1961
7.2
Hand in Hand
1961
7.3
Five Golden Hours
1961
7.3
Danger Man
1960
5.9
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
5.0
The Angel Wore Red
1960
6.5
Kidnapped
1960
7.9
Ben-Hur
1959
6.4
Solomon and Sheba
1959
6.2
Corridors of Blood
1958
6.5
Tempest
1958
6.4
Rockets Galore
1958
10.0
6.5 Special
1958
10.0
The Naked Earth
1958
6.3
Dangerous Exile
1957
6.0
Campbell's Kingdom
1957
6.5
Saint Joan
1957
6.4
The Little Hut
1957
7.5
Seven Waves Away
1957
5.4
Zarak
1956
6.7
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
5.6
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
7.0
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
5.3
King's Rhapsody
1955
6.4
Captain Lightfoot
1955
7.4
Make Me an Offer!
1954
4.7
Third Party Risk
1954
6.5
The End of the Road
1954
5.2
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
6.3
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
6.8
Stars and Stripes Forever
1952
6.8
Ivanhoe
1952
5.3
Walk East on Beacon
1952
5.7
Kangaroo
1952
7.1
Quo Vadis
1951
7.1
People Will Talk
1951
6.4
Trio
1950
6.6
The Mudlark
1950
6.5
The Black Rose
1950
9.0
My Daughter Joy
1950
6.6
Treasure Island
1950
6.8
Whisky Galore!
1949
7.5
The History of Mr. Polly
1949
5.5
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
6.8
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948
7.6
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
6.4
So Evil My Love
1948
NR
The Monkey's Paw
1948
6.8
My Brother Jonathan
1948
5.4
The Brothers
1947
6.5
Woman to Woman
1947
7.3
Great Expectations
1946
7.2
School for Secrets
1946
7.3
Spring Song
19466.5
The Trojan Brothers
1946NR
In the Zone
1946
7.1
I Know Where I'm Going!
19456.5
Don Chicago
1945
6.5
The Shipbuilders
1943
6.3
They Met in the Dark
1943
6.1
Undercover
1943
4.7
Theatre Royal
1943
5.6
Warn That Man
1943
7.2
The Bells Go Down
1943
6.2
Thunder Rock
1942
6.0
The Day Will Dawn
1942
7.0
49th Parallel
1941
6.0
Crook's Tour
194010.0
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
1938
7.0
Paradise for Two
1937
7.1
The Edge of the World
1937
9.0
Wanted!
1937
7.7
Command Performance
19379.0
Catch as Catch Can
1937
7.5
Glamorous Night
19379.0
The Gay Adventure
1936
9.0
The Improper Duchess
1936
5.6
Me and Marlborough
1935
10.0
Heat Wave
1935
8.0
Mister Cinders
19359.0
The Big Splash
1935
5.0
Little Friend
1934
4.0
My Old Dutch
1934
8.0
Gay Love
193410.0
It's a Boy
1934
6.8
Princess Charming
1934
NR
Orders Is Orders
1933
10.0
No Funny Business
193310.0
Excess Baggage
1933
6.4
The Good Companions
1933
6.1
Rome Express
1932
9.0
The Frightened Lady
1932
7.0
The Old Man
1931