Finlay Currie

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1878-01-19

Died: 1968-05-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1931	The Old Man	Rennett	0
2	1932	The Frightened Lady	Brooks	0
3	1932	Rome Express	Sam, Publicist	62
4	1933	The Good Companions	Monte Mortimer	58
5	1933	Excess Baggage	inspector Toucan	0
6	1933	No Funny Business	Mr Potterton	0
7	1933	Orders Is Orders	Dave	0
8	1934	Princess Charming	Baron Seegman	70
9	1934	It's a Boy	Publisher	0
10	1934	Gay Love	Highams	0
11	1934	My Old Dutch	Mo	0
12	1934	Little Friend	Grove	35
13	1935	The Big Splash	Hartley Bassett	0
14	1935	Mister Cinders	Henry Kemp	0
15	1935	Heat Wave	Captain	0
16	1935	Me and Marlborough	Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)	53
17	1936	The Improper Duchess	Milton Lee	0
18	1936	The Gay Adventure	Porter	0
19	1937	Glamorous Night	Angus MacKintosh	60
20	1937	Catch as Catch Can	Al Parson	0
21	1937	Command Performance	Al, Arthur's Manager	65
22	1937	Wanted!	Uncle Mart	0
23	1937	The Edge of the World	James Gray	72
24	1937	Paradise for Two	Creditor	50
25	1938	The Claydon Treasure Mystery	Rubin	0
26	1940	Crook's Tour	Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)	57
27	1941	49th Parallel	The Factor	69
28	1942	The Day Will Dawn	Capt. Alstad	56
29	1942	Thunder Rock	Capt. Joshua Stuart	63
30	1943	The Bells Go Down	District Officer McFarlane	72
31	1943	Warn That Man	Captain Andrew Fletcher	53
32	1943	Undercover	Priest (uncredited)	58
33	1943	Theatre Royal	Clement J. Earle	35
34	1943	They Met in the Dark	Merchant Captain	63
35	1943	The Shipbuilders	McWain	60
36	1945	Don Chicago	Bugs Mulligan	40
37	1945	I Know Where I'm Going!	Ruairidh Mhór	71
38	1946	In the Zone		0
39	1946	The Trojan Brothers	W.H. Maxwell	50
40	1946	School for Secrets	Sir Duncan Wills	70
41	1946	Spring Song	Cobb	60
42	1946	Great Expectations	Abel Magwitch	73
43	1947	Woman to Woman	Theatre Manager	0
44	1947	The Brothers	Hector Macrae	52
45	1948	My Brother Jonathan	Dr. Hammond	66
46	1948	The Monkey's Paw	Sergeant-Major Morris	0
47	1948	So Evil My Love	Dr. Krylie	63
48	1948	Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill	Sir Joshua Varley	77
49	1948	Sleeping Car to Trieste	Alastair McBain	67
50	1948	Bonnie Prince Charlie	The Marquis of Tullibardine	47
51	1949	The History of Mr. Polly	Uncle Jim	74
52	1949	Whisky Galore!	Narrator	69
53	1950	Treasure Island	Capt. Billy Bones	66
54	1950	My Daughter Joy	Sir Thomas McTavish	0
55	1950	The Black Rose	Alfgar	65
56	1950	The Mudlark	John Brown	65
57	1950	Trio	Mr. McLeod	63
58	1951	People Will Talk	Shunderson	71
59	1951	Quo Vadis	Peter	71
60	1952	Kangaroo	Michael McGuire	52
61	1952	Walk East on Beacon	Professor Albert Kafer	52
62	1952	Ivanhoe	Cedric	68
63	1952	Stars and Stripes Forever	Col. Randolph	69
64	1953	Treasure of the Golden Condor	MacDougal	62
65	1953	Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue	Hamish MacPherson	50
66	1954	The End of the Road	Old 'Mick-Mack'	60
67	1954	Third Party Risk	Mr. Darius	46
68	1954	Make Me an Offer!	Abe Sparta	67
69	1955	Captain Lightfoot	Callahan	63
70	1955	King's Rhapsody	King Paul	30
71	1955	Footsteps in the Fog	Inspector Peters	70
72	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Whist Partner	66
73	1956	Zarak	The Mullah	47
74	1957	Abandon Ship	Mr. Wheaton	74
75	1957	The Little Hut	The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett	65
76	1957	Saint Joan	Archbishop of Rheims	65
77	1957	Campbell's Kingdom	Hyper-religious Old Barfly	56
78	1957	Dangerous Exile	Mr. Patient	62
79	1958	The Naked Earth	Father Verity	0
80	1958	6.5 Special	Himself	0
81	1958	Rockets Galore	Narrator (uncredited)	60
82	1958	Corridors of Blood	Supt. Charles Matheson	61
83	1958	Tempest	Count Grinov	60
84	1959	Ben-Hur	Balthasar	79
85	1959	Solomon and Sheba	David	64
86	1960	Kidnapped	Cluny MacPherson	64
87	1960	The Angel Wore Red	Bishop	53
88	1960	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Captain Sellers	58
89	1961	Five Golden Hours	Father Superior	60
90	1961	Hand in Hand	Mr. Pritchard	72
91	1961	Francis of Assisi	The Pope	76
92	1961	Clue of the Silver Key	Harvey Lane	70
93	1961	Joseph and His Brethren	Jacob	58
94	1962	Go to Blazes	Judge	63
95	1962	The Inspector	De Kool	67
96	1962	The Amorous Prawn	Lochaye	63
97	1963	The Cracksman	Feathers	63
98	1963	Cleopatra	Titus	70
99	1963	Murder at the Gallop	Old Enderby	70
100	1963	Billy Liar	Duxbury	69
101	1963	West 11	Gash	69
102	1963	The Three Lives of Thomasina	Grandpa Stirling	68
103	1964	The Fall of the Roman Empire	Senator	65
104	1964	Who Was Maddox?		85
105	1965	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita	Emcee	48
106	1965	Bunny Lake Is Missing	The Doll Maker	72
107	1966	Brigadoon	Mr. Lundie	70
108	1966	Alice in Wonderland	Dodo	58
109	1969	Vendetta for The Saint	Don Pasquale	67

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	General Electric Theater	MacMorriss	63
2	1956	The Count of Monte Cristo		44
3	1962	The Saint	Don Pasquale	73
4	1965	Gideon's Way	General Sir Hector McGregor	68
5	1965	United!		0
6	1967	The Prisoner	General	77
7	1967	Les Misérables		40

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