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.
Known For
Credits
- 1967 · Les Misérables as
- 1967 · The Prisoner as General
- 1966 · Alice in Wonderland as Dodo
- 1966 · Brigadoon as Mr. Lundie
- 1965 · United! as
- 1965 · Bunny Lake Is Missing as The Doll Maker
- 1965 · The Battle of the Villa Fiorita as Emcee
- 1965 · Gideon's Way as General Sir Hector McGregor
- 1964 · Who Was Maddox? as
- 1964 · The Fall of the Roman Empire as Senator
- 1963 · The Three Lives of Thomasina as Grandpa Stirling
- 1963 · West 11 as Gash
- 1963 · Billy Liar as Duxbury
- 1963 · Murder at the Gallop as Old Enderby
- 1963 · Cleopatra as Titus
- 1963 · The Cracksman as Feathers
- 1962 · The Amorous Prawn as Lochaye
- 1962 · The Saint as Don Pasquale
- 1962 · The Inspector as De Kool
- 1962 · Go to Blazes as Judge
- 1961 · Joseph and His Brethren as Jacob
- 1961 · Clue of the Silver Key as
- 1961 · Francis of Assisi as The Pope
- 1961 · Hand in Hand as Mr. Pritchard
- 1961 · Five Golden Hours as Father Superior
- 1960 · The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as Captain Sellers
- 1960 · The Angel Wore Red as Bishop
- 1960 · Kidnapped as Cluny MacPherson
- 1959 · Solomon and Sheba as David
- 1959 · Ben-Hur as Balthasar
- 1958 · Corridors of Blood as Supt. Charles Matheson
- 1958 · Tempest as Count Grinov
- 1958 · Rockets Galore as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1958 · 6.5 Special as Himself
- 1958 · The Naked Earth as Father Verity
- 1957 · Dangerous Exile as Mr. Patient
- 1957 · Campbell's Kingdom as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
- 1957 · Saint Joan as Archbishop of Rheims
- 1957 · The Little Hut as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
- 1957 · Abandon Ship as Mr. Wheaton
- 1956 · Zarak as The Mullah
- 1956 · Around the World in Eighty Days as Whist Partner
- 1956 · The Count of Monte Cristo as
- 1955 · Footsteps in the Fog as Inspector Peters
- 1955 · King's Rhapsody as King Paul
- 1955 · Captain Lightfoot as Callahan
- 1954 · Make Me an Offer! as Abe Sparta
- 1954 · Third Party Risk as Mr. Darius
- 1954 · The End of the Road as Old 'Mick-Mack'
- 1953 · Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue as Hamish MacPherson
- 1953 · Treasure of the Golden Condor as MacDougal
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as MacMorriss
- 1952 · Stars and Stripes Forever as Col. Randolph
- 1952 · Ivanhoe as Cedric
- 1952 · Walk East on Beacon as Professor Albert Kafer
- 1952 · Kangaroo as Michael McGuire
- 1951 · Quo Vadis as Peter
- 1951 · People Will Talk as Shunderson
- 1950 · Trio as Mr. McLeod
- 1950 · The Mudlark as John Brown
- 1950 · The Black Rose as Alfgar
- 1950 · My Daughter Joy as Sir Thomas McTavish
- 1950 · Treasure Island as Capt. Billy Bones
- 1949 · The History of Mr. Polly as Uncle Jim
- 1948 · Bonnie Prince Charlie as The Marquis of Tullibardine
- 1948 · Sleeping Car to Trieste as Alastair McBain
- 1948 · Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill as Sir Joshua Varley
- 1948 · So Evil My Love as Dr. Krylie
- 1948 · The Monkey's Paw as Sergeant-Major Morris
- 1948 · My Brother Jonathan as Dr. Hammond
- 1947 · The Brothers as Hector Macrae
- 1946 · Great Expectations as Abel Magwitch
- 1946 · School for Secrets as Sir Duncan Wills
- 1946 · Spring Song as Cobb
- 1946 · The Trojan Brothers as W.H. Maxwell
- 1946 · In the Zone as
- 1945 · I Know Where I'm Going! as Ruairidh Mhór
- 1945 · Don Chicago as Bugs Mulligan
- 1943 · The Shipbuilders as McWain
- 1943 · They Met in the Dark as Merchant Captain
- 1943 · Undercover as Priest (uncredited)
- 1943 · Theatre Royal as Clement J. Earle
- 1943 · Warn That Man as Captain Andrew Fletcher
- 1943 · The Bells Go Down as District Officer McFarlane
- 1942 · Thunder Rock as Capt. Joshua Stuart
- 1942 · The Day Will Dawn as Capt. Alstad
- 1941 · 49th Parallel as The Factor
- 1940 · Crook's Tour as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
- 1938 · The Claydon Treasure Mystery as Rubin
- 1937 · Paradise for Two as Creditor
- 1937 · The Edge of the World as James Gray
- 1937 · Wanted! as Uncle Mart
- 1937 · Catch as Catch Can as Al Parson
- 1937 · Glamorous Night as Angus MacKintosh
- 1937 · Command Performance as Al, Arthur's Manager
- 1936 · The Improper Duchess as Milton Lee
- 1935 · Me and Marlborough as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
- 1935 · Heat Wave as Captain
- 1935 · The Big Splash as Hartley Bassett
- 1934 · Little Friend as Grove
- 1934 · My Old Dutch as Mo
- 1934 · Gay Love as Highams
- 1934 · It's a Boy as Publisher
- 1934 · Princess Charming as Baron Seegman
- 1934 · Mister Cinders as Henry Kemp
- 1933 · Orders Is Orders as Dave
- 1933 · No Funny Business as Mr Potterton
- 1933 · Excess Baggage as inspector Toucan
- 1933 · The Good Companions as Monte Mortimer
- 1932 · Rome Express as Sam, Publicist
- 1932 · The Frightened Lady as Brooks
- 1931 · The Old Man as Rennett