Finlay Currie

Acting

Born Jan 19, 1878

From Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Died May 09, 1968

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.

Finlay Currie

Known For

Ben-Hur

Cleopatra

Around the World in 80 Days

Quo Vadis

Solomon and Sheba

Ivanhoe

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Great Expectations

Treasure Island

49th Parallel

Filmography — Acting

Ben-Hur

Cleopatra

Around the World in 80 Days

Quo Vadis

Solomon and Sheba

Ivanhoe

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Great Expectations

Treasure Island

49th Parallel

Murder at the Gallop

People Will Talk

The Black Rose

Francis of Assisi

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Billy Liar

Joseph and His Brethren

Footsteps in the Fog

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Captain Lightfoot

School for Secrets

Kidnapped

I Know Where I'm Going!

Kangaroo

Seven Waves Away

Whisky Galore!

Zarak

The Three Lives of Thomasina

Five Golden Hours

Trio

The Edge of the World

Tempest

Saint Joan

West 11

Alice in Wonderland

Corridors of Blood

Brigadoon

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Crook's Tour

Go to Blazes

They Met in the Dark

Vendetta for The Saint

Stars and Stripes Forever

My Daughter Joy

My Brother Jonathan

Heat Wave

The Day Will Dawn

6.5 Special

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Undercover

So Evil My Love

Sleeping Car to Trieste

The Little Hut

The Amorous Prawn

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

The Bells Go Down

Orders Is Orders

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

The Good Companions

Princess Charming

The Frightened Lady

Rome Express

Walk East on Beacon

Treasure of the Golden Condor

The Brothers

The Inspector

The Cracksman