Finlay Currie

🎂 Data nașterii: 1878-01-19 (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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Finlay Currie

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Ben-Hur

Murder at the Gallop

Bunny Lake Is Missing

În jurul lumii în opt zeci de zile

Corridors of Blood

Oamenii vor vorbi

Insula comorii

Quo Vadis

My Old Dutch

Billy Liar

Ivanhoe

The Improper Duchess

Me and Marlborough

Marile speranțe

Solomon și regina din Saba

Kidnapped

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Stars and Stripes Forever

The Edge of the World

Footsteps in the Fog

Expresul şlagărelor

The Brothers

Căderea imperiului Roman

So Evil My Love

The History of Mr. Polly

School for Secrets

I Know Where I'm Going!

Walk East on Beacon

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Thunder Rock

Francis of Assisi

Seven Waves Away

Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli

Saint Joan

Third Party Risk

The Mudlark

Captain Lightfoot

My Daughter Joy

The Little Hut

Rome Express

The Angel Wore Red

The Inspector

Kangaroo

The Bells Go Down

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

Treasure of the Golden Condor

Undercover

Make Me an Offer!

Bonnie Prince Charlie

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

49th Parallel

Heat Wave

My Brother Jonathan

King's Rhapsody

Excess Baggage

No Funny Business

The Monkey's Paw

La tempesta

Dangerous Exile

Glamorous Night

The Day Will Dawn

The Black Rose

Zarak

Gay Love

The Big Splash

Brigadoon

Paradise for Two

Alice in Wonderland