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Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie

Birthday: 1878-01-20 | Place of Birth: Edinburgh, 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1965
Bunny Lake Is Missing

as    The Doll Maker

1963
Billy Liar

as    Duxbury

1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina

as    Grandpa Stirling

1963
Corridors of Blood

as    Supt. Charles Matheson

1961
Francis of Assisi

as    The Pope

1960
The Angel Wore Red

as    Bishop

1960
Kidnapped

as    Cluny MacPherson

1959
Solomon and Sheba

as    David

1958
Tempest

as    Count Grinov

1957
Dangerous Exile

as    Mr. Patient

1957
Abandon Ship

as    Mr. Wheaton

1957
The Little Hut

as    The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett

1956
Zarak

as    The Mullah

1956
Around the World in Eighty Days

as    Whist Partner

1955
Captain Lightfoot

as    Callahan

1954
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

as    Hamish MacPherson

1954
Third Party Risk

as    Mr. Darius

1953
Treasure of the Golden Condor

as    MacDougal

1952
Ivanhoe

as    Cedric

1952
Kangaroo

as    Michael McGuire

1951
Quo Vadis

as    Peter

1951
People Will Talk

as    Shunderson

1950
The Black Rose

as    Alfgar

1950
Treasure Island

as    Capt. Billy Bones

1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste

as    Alastair McBain

1948
Bonnie Prince Charlie

as    The Marquis of Tullibardine

1947
I Know Where I'm Going!

as    Ruairidh Mhór

1946
Great Expectations

as    Abel Magwitch

1946
School for Secrets

as    Sir Duncan Wills