Frank Finlay

Acting

Born Aug 06, 1926

From Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK

Died Jan 30, 2016

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.

Frank Finlay

Known For

The Key

The Pianist

The Voyeur

Lifeforce

The Longest Day

The Three Musketeers

The Wild Geese

Fifty Shades of Erotica

The Four Musketeers

A Christmas Carol

Filmography — Acting

The Key

The Pianist

The Voyeur

Lifeforce

The Longest Day

The Three Musketeers

The Wild Geese

Fifty Shades of Erotica

The Four Musketeers

A Christmas Carol

Cromwell

Stalin

The Statement

A Study in Terror

Robbery

The Return of the Musketeers

Inspector Clouseau

Murder by Decree

Mountain of Diamonds

Enigma

The Return of the Soldier

Twisted Nerve

Shaft in Africa

The Jokers

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Nothing Like a Dame

Hot Enough for June

Casanova

Othello

The Molly Maguires

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Shoes of the Fisherman

Sakharov

The Martins

A Mind to Murder

The Thief of Baghdad

Eroica

Assault

The Deadly Bees

The Ploughman's Lunch

Gumshoe

Much Ado About Nothing

Virgin Mary

Sparrow

Count Dracula

Ring of Darkness

Sitting Target

Cthulhu Mansion

King of the Wind

The Body

Doctor in Distress

Private Potter

The Comedy Man

The Merchant of Venice

Station Jim

The Sandwich Man

Life for Ruth

Dear Brutus

The Lie

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Lighthouse Hill

Arch of Triumph

The Informers

Stiff Upper Lips

In the Secret State

Royal Variety Performance 1984

The Death of Adolf Hitler