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.
119 acting credits
Acting · 119
The Saint
1962
Danger Man
1960
The Prisoner
1967
United!
1965
Ben-Hur
1959
Gideon's Way
1965
Cleopatra
1963
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
Man of the World
1962
Quo Vadis
1951
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
General Electric Theater
1953
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Armchair Theatre
1956
Treasure Island
1950
Great Expectations
1946
Ivanhoe
1952
Solomon and Sheba
1959
49th Parallel
1941
Murder at the Gallop
1963
Billy Liar
1963
Les Misérables
1967
Saint Joan
1957
The Black Rose
1950
People Will Talk
1951
Kangaroo
1952
Joseph and His Brethren
1961
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
Whisky Galore!
1949
Trio
1950
Captain Lightfoot
1955
Kidnapped
1960
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
Seven Waves Away
1957
The Little Hut
1957
Alice in Wonderland
1966
The Inspector
1962
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
So Evil My Love
1948
Campbell's Kingdom
1957
The Angel Wore Red
1960
School for Secrets
1946
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963
Five Golden Hours
1961
Thunder Rock
1942
The Edge of the World
1937
The Amorous Prawn
1962
Undercover
1943
Tempest
1958
King's Rhapsody
1955
The Brothers
1947
They Met in the Dark
1943
Stars and Stripes Forever
1952
West 11
1963
Rockets Galore
1958
Walk East on Beacon
1952
Brigadoon
1966
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
Corridors of Blood
1958
My Daughter Joy
1950
Francis of Assisi
1961
Zarak
1956
Vendetta for The Saint
1969
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
1938
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
The History of Mr. Polly
1949
Dangerous Exile
1957
The Cracksman
1963
Spring Song
1946
The Improper Duchess
1936
The Day Will Dawn
1942
Don Chicago
1945
6.5 Special
1958
The Good Companions
1933
The Mudlark
1950
Crook's Tour
1940
The End of the Road
1954
The Shipbuilders
1943
Rome Express
1932
Hand in Hand
1961
The Frightened Lady
1932
Me and Marlborough
1935
Go to Blazes
1962
My Brother Jonathan
1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948
Heat Wave
1935
Warn That Man
1943
Little Friend
1934
Wanted!
1937
The Bells Go Down
1943
The Trojan Brothers
1946
Paradise for Two
1937
The Naked Earth
1958
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
Glamorous Night
1937
Gay Love
1934
It's a Boy
1934
Third Party Risk
1954
Make Me an Offer!
1954
Woman to Woman
1947
Catch as Catch Can
1937
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
Orders Is Orders
1933
Who Was Maddox?
1964
My Old Dutch
1934
Mister Cinders
1935
The Monkey's Paw
1948
Theatre Royal
1943
Princess Charming
1934
The Old Man
1931
Command Performance
1937
No Funny Business
1933
The Gay Adventure
1936
Excess Baggage
1933
The Big Splash
1935
In the Zone
1946