Finlay Currie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 19, 1878
- Died
- May 9, 1968
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Vendetta for The Saint 1969
as Don Pasquale
Alice in Wonderland 1966
as Dodo
Brigadoon 1966
as Mr. Lundie
Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965
as Doll Maker
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 1965
as Emcee
Who Was Maddox? 1964
as Alex Campbell
The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964
as Senator
The Three Lives of Thomasina 1963
as Grandpa Stirling
West 11 1963
as Gash
Billy Liar 1963
as Duxbury
Cleopatra 1963
as Titus (uncredited)
Murder at the Gallop 1963
as Old Enderby
The Cracksman 1963
as Feathers
The Amorous Prawn 1962
as Lochaye
The Inspector 1962
as De Kool
Go to Blazes 1962
as Judge
Joseph and His Brethren 1961
as Jacob
Clue of the Silver Key 1961
as Harvey Lane
Francis of Assisi 1961
as The Pope
Hand in Hand 1961
as Mr. Pritchard
Five Golden Hours 1961
as Father Superior
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1960
as Captain Sellers
The Angel Wore Red 1960
as Bishop
Kidnapped 1960
as Cluny MacPherson
Ben-Hur 1959
as Balthasar
Solomon and Sheba 1959
as David
Tempest 1958
as Count Grinov
Corridors of Blood 1958
as Supt. Charles Matheson
Rockets Galore 1958
as Narrator (uncredited)
6.5 Special 1958
as Himself
The Naked Earth 1958
as Father Verity
Dangerous Exile 1957
as Mr. Patient
Campbell's Kingdom 1957
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
Saint Joan 1957
as Archbishop of Rheims
The Little Hut 1957
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Seven Waves Away 1957
as Mr. Wheaton
Zarak 1956
as The Mullah
Around the World in 80 Days 1956
as Whist Partner
Footsteps in the Fog 1955
as Inspector Peters
King's Rhapsody 1955
as King Paul
Captain Lightfoot 1955
as Callahan
Make Me an Offer! 1954
as Abe Sparta
Third Party Risk 1954
as Mr. Darius
The End of the Road 1954
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue 1953
as Hamish MacPherson
Treasure of the Golden Condor 1953
as MacDougal
Stars and Stripes Forever 1952
as Col. Randolph
Ivanhoe 1952
as Cedric
Walk East on Beacon 1952
as Professor Albert Kafer
Kangaroo 1952
as Michael McGuire
Quo Vadis 1951
as Peter
People Will Talk 1951
as Shunderson
Trio 1950
as Mr. McLeod
The Mudlark 1950
as John Brown
The Black Rose 1950
as Alfgar
My Daughter Joy 1950
as Sir Thomas McTavish
Treasure Island 1950
as Capt. Billy Bones
Whisky Galore! 1949
as Narrator
The History of Mr. Polly 1949
as Uncle Jim
Bonnie Prince Charlie 1948
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
Sleeping Car to Trieste 1948
as Alastair McBain
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill 1948
as Sir Joshua Varley
So Evil My Love 1948
as Dr. Krylie
The Monkey's Paw 1948
as Sergeant-Major Morris
My Brother Jonathan 1948
as Dr. Hammond
The Brothers 1947
as Hector Macrae
Woman to Woman 1947
as Theatre Manager
Great Expectations 1946
as Abel Magwitch
Spring Song 1946
as Cobb
School for Secrets 1946
as Sir Duncan Wills
- The Trojan Brothers
The Trojan Brothers 1946
as W.H. Maxwell
- In the Zone
In the Zone 1946
Actor
I Know Where I'm Going! 1945
as Ruairidh Mhór
- Don Chicago
Don Chicago 1945
as Bugs Mulligan
The Shipbuilders 1943
as McWain
They Met in the Dark 1943
as Merchant Captain
Theatre Royal 1943
as Clement J. Earle
Undercover 1943
as Priest (uncredited)
Warn That Man 1943
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
The Bells Go Down 1943
as District Officer McFarlane
Thunder Rock 1942
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
The Day Will Dawn 1942
as Capt. Alstad
49th Parallel 1941
as The Factor
Crook's Tour 1940
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
- The Claydon Treasure Mystery
The Claydon Treasure Mystery 1938
as Rubin
Paradise for Two 1937
as Creditor
The Edge of the World 1937
as James Gray
Wanted! 1937
as Uncle Mart
Command Performance 1937
as Al, Arthur's Manager
- Catch as Catch Can
Catch as Catch Can 1937
as Al Parson
Glamorous Night 1937
as Angus MacKintosh
- The Gay Adventure
The Gay Adventure 1936
as Porter
The Improper Duchess 1936
as Milton Lee
Me and Marlborough 1935
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
Heat Wave 1935
as Captain
Mister Cinders 1935
as Henry Kemp
- The Big Splash
The Big Splash 1935
as Hartley Bassett
Little Friend 1934
as Grove
My Old Dutch 1934
as Mo
Gay Love 1934
as Highams
- It's a Boy
It's a Boy 1934
as Publisher
Princess Charming 1934
as Baron Seegman
Orders Is Orders 1933
as Dave
No Funny Business 1933
as Mr Potterton
- Excess Baggage
Excess Baggage 1933
as inspector Toucan
The Good Companions 1933
as Monte Mortimer
Rome Express 1932
as Sam, Publicist
The Frightened Lady 1932
as Brooks
The Old Man 1931
as Rennett
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