Frank Finlay

Acting · 1.2 popularity

Age

100

Movies

Born: August 6, 1926 – January 30, 2016
From: Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
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Biography

Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement. His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.

Works

93 films

The Pianist

20028.4

The Voyeur

19946.4

The Key

19836.0

The Longest Day

19627.6

Lifeforce

19856.2

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

19627.2

The Three Musketeers

19736.7

The Wild Geese

19786.8

Inspector Clouseau

19685.1

A Christmas Carol

19847.5

The Four Musketeers

19746.5

Robbery

19676.6

The Return of the Musketeers

19896.2

Murder by Decree

19796.3

Fifty Shades of Erotica

20157.0

The Molly Maguires

19706.3

Dear Brutus

1981

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

19675.4

Cromwell

19706.6

Virgin Mary

19954.4

Twisted Nerve

19686.8

The Statement

20035.7

Casanova

19874.1

The Shoes of the Fisherman

19686.8

Shaft in Africa

19736.1

Enigma

19825.6

Nothing Like a Dame

20186.8

The Deadly Bees

19664.4

Stalin

19925.3

A Study in Terror

19656.2

Othello

19656.4

Hot Enough for June

19645.7

Count Dracula

19777.0

Julius Caesar

19697.5

Sparrow

19947.4

Ring of Darkness

19794.8

Assault

19715.5

Royal Variety Performance 1984

1984

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

19996.4

The Thief of Baghdad

19785.5

King of the Wind

19907.0

Mountain of Diamonds

19916.2

The Return of the Soldier

19836.3

Sitting Target

19726.1

Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)

19976.0

Mona

1982

The Jokers

19676.3

The Ploughman's Lunch

19835.1

Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter

197410.0

Betzi

19788.0

Limited Edition

19977.0

Arch of Triumph

19845.2

Much Ado About Nothing

19676.3

Eroica

20037.5

Stiff Upper Lips

19985.6

The Death of Adolf Hitler

19736.6

The Martins

20015.4

Danny Jones

19726.0

Olivier Talks About Othello

1965

The Waiting Room

20075.4

Doctor in Distress

19636.3

The Lie

19706.5

Life for Ruth

19627.0

Sakharov

19847.5

The Sandwich Man

19666.5

Van der Valk and the Rich

19738.0

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

197310.0

The Informers

19636.8

The Merchant of Venice

19728.5

Nineteen Nineteen

19854.5

The Comedy Man

19647.1

Cthulhu Mansion

19924.6

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

19725.5

Gumshoe

19716.2

84 Charing Cross Road

19757.0

Station Jim

20017.5

Private Potter

19625.5

The Body

19704.6

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

1981

The Other Side

1992

A Mind to Murder

19956.3

In the Secret State

19857.0

The Wild Affair

19655.3

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

19787.0

For My Baby

20003.8

The Making Of Lifeforce

1985

Blood of the Lamb

19697.0

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

197510.0

This Happy Breed

1969

Lighthouse Hill

20049.5

The Hard Knock

1962

The Spare Tyres

19678.0

The Piano Tuner

1969