Finlay Currie
Acting
- Born:
- 1878-01-19
- Died:
- 1968-05-09
- Place of birth:
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Vendetta for The Saint
Les Misérables
The Prisoner
Alice in Wonderland
Brigadoon
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Knock on Any Door
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Gideon's Way
Who Was Maddox?
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Three Lives of Thomasina
West 11
Billy Liar
Cleopatra
Murder at the Gallop
The Cracksman
The Amorous Prawn
The Saint
Man of the World
The Inspector
Go to Blazes
Joseph and His Brethren
Clue of the Silver Key
Francis of Assisi
Hand in Hand
Five Golden Hours
Danger Man
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Angel Wore Red
Kidnapped
Ben-Hur
Solomon and Sheba
Corridors of Blood
Tempest
Rockets Galore
6.5 Special
The Naked Earth
Dangerous Exile
Campbell's Kingdom
Saint Joan
The Little Hut
Seven Waves Away
Zarak
Around the World in 80 Days
Armchair Theatre
The Count of Monte Cristo
Footsteps in the Fog
King's Rhapsody
Captain Lightfoot
Make Me an Offer!
Third Party Risk
The End of the Road
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Treasure of the Golden Condor
General Electric Theater
Stars and Stripes Forever
Ivanhoe
Walk East on Beacon
Kangaroo
Quo Vadis
People Will Talk
Trio
The Mudlark
The Black Rose
My Daughter Joy
Treasure Island
Whisky Galore!
The History of Mr. Polly
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
So Evil My Love
The Monkey's Paw
My Brother Jonathan
The Brothers
Woman to Woman
Great Expectations
School for Secrets
Spring Song
The Trojan Brothers
In the Zone
I Know Where I'm Going!
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
49th Parallel
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
Rome Express
The Frightened Lady
The Old Man