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.

Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie

Biography

Ben-Hur

Cleopatra

Around the World in 80 Days

Quo Vadis

Great Expectations

Solomon and Sheba

Treasure Island

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Gay Love

Ivanhoe

Seven Waves Away

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Kangaroo

I Know Where I'm Going!

Murder at the Gallop

Undercover

Joseph and His Brethren

Whisky Galore!

Kidnapped

Zarak

Captain Lightfoot

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Vendetta for The Saint

Corridors of Blood

Billy Liar

Campbell's Kingdom

The History of Mr. Polly

People Will Talk

The Old Man

Saint Joan

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Frightened Lady

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

Francis of Assisi

The Little Hut

Little Friend

The Big Splash

School for Secrets

Five Golden Hours

No Funny Business

49th Parallel

West 11

6.5 Special

The Angel Wore Red

Alice in Wonderland

Trio

So Evil My Love

The Mudlark

The Black Rose

The Three Lives of Thomasina

The Bells Go Down

Sleeping Car to Trieste

My Brother Jonathan

Bonnie Prince Charlie

The Edge of the World

They Met in the Dark

Stars and Stripes Forever

Third Party Risk

The Monkey's Paw

My Daughter Joy

The Naked Earth

Walk East on Beacon

Catch as Catch Can

The Inspector

Treasure of the Golden Condor

The Day Will Dawn

Tempest

Crook's Tour

Footsteps in the Fog

Thunder Rock

The Good Companions

In the Zone

The Cracksman

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

The Amorous Prawn

Brigadoon

The Brothers