Finlay Currie

Known for ActingBorn 1878-01-19Died 1968-05-09Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

6.5 Special

The Naked Earth

The Claydon Treasure Mystery

Heat Wave

It's a Boy

Excess Baggage

No Funny Business

My Daughter Joy

Wanted!

Catch as Catch Can

The Improper Duchess

The Gay Adventure

The Big Splash

The Frightened Lady

Ben-Hur

The Prisoner

Mister Cinders

Who Was Maddox?

Gay Love

Francis of Assisi

Seven Waves Away

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

The History of Mr. Polly

Command Performance

Danger Man

The Saint

Five Golden Hours

Make Me an Offer!

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Glamorous Night

Man of the World

Spring Song

Hand in Hand

Great Expectations

The Inspector

Murder at the Gallop

Cleopatra

School for Secrets

Brigadoon

The Edge of the World

Gideon's Way

United!

People Will Talk

The Bells Go Down

Quo Vadis

Clue of the Silver Key

Vendetta for The Saint

West 11