Finlay Currie
Age: 90 | From: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Person Details
Birthday: 1878-01-20 03:16:08
Death: 1968-05-09 03:16:08
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Movie Involvements: 70
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Most Famous Work
The Saint
(1962) Don Pasquale
The Prisoner
(1967) General
Gideon's Way
(1965) General Sir Hector McGregor
Ben-Hur
(1959) Balthasar
The Fall of the Roman Empire
(1964) Senator
Cleopatra
(1963) Titus
Great Expectations
(1946) Abel Magwitch
Solomon and Sheba
(1959) DavidActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | N/A | |
| General | ||
| 1966 | Dodo | |
| Mr. Lundie | ||
| 1965 | N/A | |
| The Doll Maker | ||
| Emcee | ||
| General Sir Hector McGregor | ||
| 1964 | N/A | |
| Senator | ||
| 1963 | Grandpa Stirling | |
| Gash | ||
| Duxbury | ||
| Old Enderby | ||
| Titus | ||
| Feathers | ||
| 1962 | Lochaye | |
| Don Pasquale | ||
| De Kool | ||
| Judge | ||
| 1961 | Jacob | |
| N/A | ||
| The Pope | ||
| Mr. Pritchard | ||
| Father Superior | ||
| 1960 | Captain Sellers | |
| Bishop | ||
| Cluny MacPherson | ||
| 1959 | David | |
| Balthasar | ||
| 1958 | Count Grinov | |
| Supt. Charles Matheson | ||
| Narrator (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Father Verity | ||
| 1957 | Mr. Patient | |
| Old Man | ||
| Archbishop of Rheims | ||
| The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett | ||
| Mr. Wheaton | ||
| 1956 | The Mullah | |
| Whist Partner | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1955 | Inspector Peters | |
| King Paul | ||
| Callahan | ||
| 1954 | Abe Sparta | |
| Mr. Darius | ||
| Hamish MacPherson | ||
| Old 'Mick-Mack' | ||
| 1953 | MacDougal | |
| MacMorriss | ||
| 1952 | Col. Randolph | |
| Cedric | ||
| Professor Albert Kafer | ||
| Michael McGuire | ||
| 1951 | Peter | |
| Shunderson | ||
| 1950 | Mr. McLeod | |
| John Brown | ||
| Alfgar | ||
| Sir Thomas McTavish | ||
| Capt. Billy Bones | ||
| 1949 | Uncle Jim | |
| 1948 | The Marquis of Tullibardine | |
| Alastair McBain | ||
| Sir Joshua Varley | ||
| Dr. Krylie | ||
| Dr. Hammond | ||
| 1947 | Hector Macrae | |
| 1946 | Abel Magwitch | |
| Cobb | ||
| Sir Duncan Wills | ||
| W.H. Maxwell | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1945 | Ruairidh Mhór | |
| Bugs Mulligan | ||
| 1943 | McWain | |
| Merchant Captain | ||
| Clement J. Earle | ||
| Priest (uncredited) | ||
| Captain Andrew Fletcher | ||
| District Officer McFarlane | ||
| 1942 | Capt. Joshua Stuart | |
| Capt. Alstad | ||
| 1941 | The Factor | |
| 1940 | Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited) | |
| 1938 | Rubin | |
| 1937 | Creditor | |
| James Gray | ||
| Uncle Mart | ||
| Al Parson | ||
| Angus MacKintosh | ||
| Al, Arthur's Manager | ||
| 1936 | Milton Lee | |
| 1935 | Marriage Celebrant (uncredited) | |
| Captain | ||
| Hartley Bassett | ||
| 1934 | Grove | |
| Mo | ||
| Highams | ||
| Baron Seegman | ||
| Henry Kemp | ||
| 1933 | Dave | |
| Mr Potterton | ||
| inspector Toucan | ||
| Monte Mortimer | ||
| 1932 | Sam, Publicist | |
| Brooks | ||
| 1931 | Rennett | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
