Finlay Currie
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1878-01-19
- Décès:
- 1968-05-09
- Lieu de naissance:
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biographie
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.
Connu pour
Filmographie
Vendetta pour le Saint
Les Misérables
Le Prisonnier
Alice in Wonderland
Brigadoon
Bunny Lake a disparu
Knock on Any Door
La Bataille de la Villa Fiorita
Gideon's Way
Who Was Maddox?
La Chute de l'Empire romain
Les Trois Vies de Thomasina
West 11
Billy le menteur
Cléopâtre
Meurtre au galop
The Cracksman
The Amorous Prawn
Le Saint
Man of the World
The Inspector
Go to Blazes
L'Esclave du pharaon
Clue of the Silver Key
Saint-François d'Assise
Hand in Hand
Cinq heures en or
Destination Danger
Les aventuriers du fleuve
L'Ange Pourpre
L'enlèvement de David Balfour
Ben-Hur
Salomon et la reine de Saba
Corridors of Blood
La Tempête
Rockets Galore
6.5 Special
The Naked Earth
Dangerous Exile
La vallée de l'or noir
Sainte Jeanne
La Petite Hutte
Pour que les autres vivent
Zarak le valeureux
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
Armchair Theatre
The Count of Monte Cristo
Des pas dans le brouillard
Rhapsodie royale
Capitaine Mystère
Make Me an Offer!
Third Party Risk
The End of the Road
Échec au Roi
Le Trésor du Guatemala
General Electric Theater
Stars and Stripes Forever
Ivanhoé
Walk East on Beacon
La Loi du fouet
Quo Vadis
On murmure dans la ville
Trio
The Mudlark
La Rose noire
Son Grand amour
L'Île au trésor
Whisky à gogo
History of Mr Polly
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Une âme perdue
The Monkey's Paw
My Brother Jonathan
The Brothers
Woman to Woman
Les Grandes Espérances
Ecole de secrets
Spring Song
The Trojan Brothers
In the Zone
Je sais où je vais
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
49ème parallèle
Crook's Tour
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Paradise for Two
A l'angle du monde
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
Rome Express
The Frightened Lady
The Old Man