Finlay Currie

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

148

Movies

109

Born: January 19, 1878 – May 9, 1968
From: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Biography

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.

Works

109 films

Ben-Hur

19597.9

Cleopatra

19637.0

Around the World in 80 Days

19566.7

Quo Vadis

19517.1

The Fall of the Roman Empire

19646.5

Great Expectations

19467.3

Treasure Island

19506.5

Solomon and Sheba

19596.4

Ivanhoe

19526.8

49th Parallel

19417.0

Kidnapped

19606.6

Murder at the Gallop

19637.1

Seven Waves Away

19577.5

Bunny Lake Is Missing

19657.2

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

19605.9

Billy Liar

19636.8

Gay Love

19348.0

Zarak

19565.4

Whisky Galore!

19496.8

The Black Rose

19506.5

Footsteps in the Fog

19557.0

Kangaroo

19525.7

Saint Joan

19576.5

I Know Where I'm Going!

19457.1

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

19535.2

The Three Lives of Thomasina

19636.8

Joseph and His Brethren

19616.2

People Will Talk

19517.1

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

19654.4

Undercover

19436.1

Captain Lightfoot

19556.4

Campbell's Kingdom

19576.0

Francis of Assisi

19617.7

Tempest

19586.5

The Bells Go Down

19437.2

Corridors of Blood

19586.2

6.5 Special

195810.0

So Evil My Love

19486.4

Treasure of the Golden Condor

19536.3

Little Friend

19345.0

The Cracksman

19636.6

The Mudlark

19506.6

Orders Is Orders

1933

Alice in Wonderland

19666.0

Stars and Stripes Forever

19527.0

The Frightened Lady

19329.0

Rome Express

19326.1

Trio

19506.4

Vendetta for The Saint

19696.9

The Edge of the World

19377.1

The Inspector

19627.1

Go to Blazes

19626.3

The Naked Earth

195810.0

The Angel Wore Red

19605.0

Five Golden Hours

19617.3

The Big Splash

19359.0

No Funny Business

193310.0

Dangerous Exile

19576.3

Woman to Woman

19476.5

West 11

19636.9

Walk East on Beacon

19525.3

Crook's Tour

19406.0

The Little Hut

19576.4

Third Party Risk

19544.7

King's Rhapsody

19555.3

My Brother Jonathan

19486.8

Command Performance

19377.7

Clue of the Silver Key

19617.0

School for Secrets

19467.2

The History of Mr. Polly

19497.5

Rockets Galore

19586.4

Glamorous Night

19377.5

Mister Cinders

19358.0

The Day Will Dawn

19426.0

In the Zone

1946

The Trojan Brothers

19466.5

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

19487.6

Sleeping Car to Trieste

19486.8

The Old Man

19317.0

Make Me an Offer!

19547.4

The Monkey's Paw

1948

Bonnie Prince Charlie

19485.5

Catch as Catch Can

19379.0

The Shipbuilders

19436.5

Hand in Hand

19617.2

The Brothers

19475.4

My Daughter Joy

19509.0

The End of the Road

19546.5

Thunder Rock

19426.3

The Good Companions

19336.4

It's a Boy

193410.0

They Met in the Dark

19436.3

Princess Charming

19346.8

Don Chicago

19456.5

Brigadoon

19667.0

The Amorous Prawn

19626.5

My Old Dutch

19344.0

Excess Baggage

193310.0

Theatre Royal

19434.7

Warn That Man

19435.6

Who Was Maddox?

19647.7

The Claydon Treasure Mystery

193810.0

Wanted!

19379.0

The Gay Adventure

19369.0

Me and Marlborough

19355.6

Heat Wave

193510.0

Paradise for Two

19377.0

Spring Song

19467.3

The Improper Duchess

19369.0