Finlay Currie
Acting
- Nacimiento:
- 1878-01-19
- Fallecimiento:
- 1968-05-09
- Lugar de nacimiento:
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biografía
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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Filmografía
La venganza del Santo
Les Misérables
El prisionero
Alicia en el País de las Maravillas
Brigadoon
El rapto de Bunny Lake
Knock on Any Door
Escándalo en Villa Fiorita
Gideon's Way
Who Was Maddox?
La caída del Imperio romano
Las tres vidas de Thomasina
Distrito 11
Billy, el embustero
Cleopatra
Después del funeral
The Cracksman
The Amorous Prawn
El santo
Man of the World
The Inspector
Go to Blazes
Traidores a su sangre
Clue of the Silver Key
Francisco de Asís
Hand in Hand
Cinco horas doradas
Danger Man
Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
El ángel vestido de rojo
Secuestrado
Ben-Hur
Salomón y la reina de Saba
Pasillos de sangre
Tempestad
Rockets Galore
6.5 Special
The Naked Earth
La sombra de la guillotina
La dinastía del petróleo
Santa Juana
La cabaña
El mar no perdona
Zarak
La vuelta al mundo en 80 días
Armchair Theatre
The Count of Monte Cristo
Pasos en la niebla
Rapsodia Real
Orgullo de raza
Make Me an Offer!
Third Party Risk
The End of the Road
Rob Roy, el gran rebelde
El tesoro del Cóndor de Oro
General Electric Theater
Stars and Stripes Forever
Ivanhoe
Cita a las once
La ley del látigo
Quo Vadis
Murmullos en la ciudad
El torbellino de la vida
The Mudlark
La rosa negra
My Daughter Joy
La isla del tesoro
Whisky a gogó
The History of Mr. Polly
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Coche cama a Trieste
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
So Evil My Love
The Monkey's Paw
My Brother Jonathan
The Brothers
Woman to Woman
Cadenas rotas
School for Secrets
Spring Song
The Trojan Brothers
In the Zone
Sé a dónde voy
Don Chicago
The Shipbuilders
They Met in the Dark
Undercover
Theatre Royal
Warn That Man
The Bells Go Down
Thunder Rock
The Day Will Dawn
Los invasores
Crook's Tour
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Paradise for Two
The Edge of the World
Wanted!
Command Performance
Catch as Catch Can
Glamorous Night
The Gay Adventure
The Improper Duchess
Me and Marlborough
Heat Wave
Mister Cinders
The Big Splash
Little Friend
My Old Dutch
Gay Love
It's a Boy
Princess Charming
Orders Is Orders
No Funny Business
Excess Baggage
The Good Companions
El rápido de Roma
The Frightened Lady
The Old Man