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.

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Finlay Currie

Filmografia

Ben-Hur

Assassinio al galoppatoio

Bunny Lake è scomparsa

Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni

Prima dell'anestesia

La gente mormora

L'isola del tesoro

Quo Vadis

My Old Dutch

Billy il bugiardo

Ivanhoe

The Improper Duchess

Me and Marlborough

Grandi speranze

Salomone e la regina di Saba

Il ragazzo rapito

Le avventure di Huck Finn

Stars and Stripes Forever

Ai confini del mondo

I perversi

6.5 Special

The Brothers

La caduta dell'impero romano

Amarti è la mia dannazione

The History of Mr. Polly

School for Secrets

So dove vado

Walk East on Beacon

Rob Roy il bandito di Scozia

Thunder Rock

Francesco d'Assisi

La settima onda

Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli

Santa Giovanna

Third Party Risk

Un monello alla corte d'Inghilterra

Il ribelle d'Irlanda

Mia figlia Joy

La capannina

Rome Express

La sposa bella

L'ispettore

Kangarù

The Bells Go Down

Accadde un'estate

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

Il tesoro dei condor

Undercover

Make Me an Offer!

Carlo di Scozia

Hand in Hand

In the Zone

Mister Cinders

Sleeping Car to Trieste

Princess Charming

Clue of the Silver Key

Who Was Maddox?

Little Friend

Warn That Man

The Good Companions

Gli invasori - 49° parallelo

Heat Wave

My Brother Jonathan

L'amante del re

No Funny Business

Excess Baggage

The Monkey's Paw

La tempesta

All'ombra della ghigliottina

Glamorous Night

The Day Will Dawn

La rosa nera

Zarak

Gay Love

The Big Splash