Cast
Finlay Currie
Acting
Cast
Finlay Currie
Known for
Acting
Born
1878-01-19
From
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Died
1968-05-09
Also known as William Finlay Currie
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.
★7.9
MOVIE1959
Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Cleopatra
as Titus (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1946
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
★6.7
MOVIE1956
Around the World in 80 Days
as Whist Partner
★7.1
MOVIE1951
Quo Vadis
as Peter
★8.0
MOVIE1934
Gay Love
as Highams
★6.4
MOVIE1959
Solomon and Sheba
as David
★5.7
MOVIE1952
Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
★7.5
MOVIE1957
Seven Waves Away
as Mr. Wheaton
★5.4
MOVIE1956
Zarak
as The Mullah
★6.6
MOVIE1950
Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
★6.5
MOVIE1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
★7.1
MOVIE1945
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
★6.8
MOVIE1952
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
★6.1
MOVIE1943
Undercover
as Priest (uncredited)
★9.0
MOVIE1932
The Frightened Lady
as Brooks
★6.2
MOVIE1961
Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob
★7.7
MOVIE1961
Francis of Assisi
as The Pope
★7.0
MOVIE1941
49th Parallel
as The Factor
★6.4
MOVIE1957
The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
★7.2
MOVIE1965
Bunny Lake Is Missing
as Doll Maker
★6.5
MOVIE1950
The Black Rose
as Alfgar
★9.0
MOVIE1935
The Big Splash
as Hartley Bassett
MOVIE1948
The Monkey's Paw
as Sergeant-Major Morris
★5.9
MOVIE1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
★4.4
MOVIE1965
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee
★6.0
MOVIE1957
Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
★7.1
MOVIE1963
Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
★5.0
MOVIE1934
Little Friend
as Grove
★10.0
MOVIE1933
No Funny Business
as Mr Potterton
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
★7.1
MOVIE1937
The Edge of the World
as James Gray
★6.2
MOVIE1958
Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
★7.2
MOVIE1946
School for Secrets
as Sir Duncan Wills
★5.0
MOVIE1960
The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop
★5.9
MOVIE1966
Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
★6.0
MOVIE1942
The Day Will Dawn
as Capt. Alstad
★6.4
MOVIE1955
Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan
★7.1
MOVIE1951
People Will Talk
as Shunderson
★7.5
MOVIE1949
The History of Mr. Polly
as Uncle Jim
★6.8
MOVIE1948
My Brother Jonathan
as Dr. Hammond
★6.4
MOVIE1933
The Good Companions
as Monte Mortimer
★6.8
MOVIE1963
Billy Liar
as Duxbury
★6.8
MOVIE1949
Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
★10.0
MOVIE1958
The Naked Earth
as Father Verity
★6.6
MOVIE1950
The Mudlark
as John Brown
★10.0
MOVIE1958
6.5 Special
as Himself
★7.0
MOVIE1931
The Old Man
as Rennett
★6.8
MOVIE1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
★4.7
MOVIE1954
Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Thunder Rock
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
★7.1
MOVIE1962
The Inspector
as De Kool
★7.6
MOVIE1948
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Sir Joshua Varley
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Alastair McBain
★7.3
MOVIE1961
Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior
★6.4
MOVIE1943
They Met in the Dark
as Merchant Captain
★7.0
MOVIE1937
Paradise for Two
as Creditor
★6.9
MOVIE1969
Vendetta for The Saint
as Don Pasquale
★7.0
MOVIE1966
Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
MOVIE1946
In the Zone
★6.9
MOVIE1963
West 11
as Gash
★6.6
MOVIE1963
The Cracksman
as Feathers
★7.5
MOVIE1937
Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh
★6.5
MOVIE1962
The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye
★6.4
MOVIE1948
So Evil My Love
as Dr. Krylie
MOVIE1933
Orders Is Orders
as Dave
★5.3
MOVIE1952
Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer
★9.0
MOVIE1950
My Daughter Joy
as Sir Thomas McTavish
★6.6
MOVIE1960
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
★9.0
MOVIE1936
The Improper Duchess
as Milton Lee
★6.4
MOVIE1950
Trio
as Mr. McLeod
★7.0
MOVIE1952
Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph
★5.2
MOVIE1953
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson
★6.3
MOVIE1962
Go to Blazes
as Judge
★7.4
MOVIE1954
Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta
★5.5
MOVIE1948
Bonnie Prince Charlie
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
★6.5
MOVIE1947
Woman to Woman
as Theatre Manager
★6.5
MOVIE1958
Tempest
as Count Grinov
★6.1
MOVIE1932
Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
★6.3
MOVIE1953
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Catch as Catch Can
as Al Parson
★7.2
MOVIE1943
The Bells Go Down
as District Officer McFarlane
★6.0
MOVIE1940
Crook's Tour
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1943
The Shipbuilders
as McWain
★6.4
MOVIE1958
Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)
★7.7
MOVIE1937
Command Performance
as Al, Arthur's Manager
★5.4
MOVIE1947
The Brothers
as Hector Macrae
★10.0
MOVIE1938
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
as Rubin
★4.0
MOVIE1934
My Old Dutch
as Mo
★6.3
MOVIE1957
Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
★7.2
MOVIE1961
Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
★7.7
MOVIE1964
Who Was Maddox?
as Alex Campbell
★5.6
MOVIE1943
Warn That Man
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane
★9.0
MOVIE1936
The Gay Adventure
as Porter
★5.6
MOVIE1935
Me and Marlborough
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE1945
Don Chicago
as Bugs Mulligan
★10.0
MOVIE1935
Heat Wave
as Captain
★6.8
MOVIE1934
Princess Charming
as Baron Seegman
★9.0
MOVIE1937
Wanted!
as Uncle Mart
★6.5
MOVIE1954
The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
★10.0
MOVIE1934
It's a Boy
as Publisher
★5.3
MOVIE1955
King's Rhapsody
as King Paul
★6.5
MOVIE1946
The Trojan Brothers
as W.H. Maxwell
★8.0
MOVIE1935
Mister Cinders
as Henry Kemp
★4.7
MOVIE1943
Theatre Royal
as Clement J. Earle
★10.0
MOVIE1933
Excess Baggage
as inspector Toucan
★7.3
MOVIE1946
Spring Song
as Cobb