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Finlay Currie
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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 Balth…
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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.
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Vendetta for The Saint
as Don Pasquale
Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
Bunny Lake Is Missing
as Doll Maker
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee
Who Was Maddox?
as Alex Campbell
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
West 11
as Gash
Billy Liar
as Duxbury
Cleopatra
as Titus (uncredited)
Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
The Cracksman
as Feathers
The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye
The Inspector
as De Kool
Go to Blazes
as Judge
Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob
Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane
Francis of Assisi
as The Pope
Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
Solomon and Sheba
as David
Tempest
as Count Grinov
Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)
6.5 Special
as Himself
The Naked Earth
as Father Verity
Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Seven Waves Away
as Mr. Wheaton
Zarak
as The Mullah
Around the World in 80 Days
as Whist Partner
Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
King's Rhapsody
as King Paul
Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan
Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta
Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius
The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal
Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer
Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
Quo Vadis
as Peter
People Will Talk
as Shunderson
Trio
as Mr. McLeod
The Mudlark
as John Brown
The Black Rose
as Alfgar
My Daughter Joy
as Sir Thomas McTavish
Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
The History of Mr. Polly
as Uncle Jim
Bonnie Prince Charlie
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Alastair McBain
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Sir Joshua Varley
So Evil My Love
as Dr. Krylie
The Monkey's Paw
as Sergeant-Major Morris
My Brother Jonathan
as Dr. Hammond
The Brothers
as Hector Macrae
Woman to Woman
as Theatre Manager
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
School for Secrets
as Sir Duncan Wills
Spring Song
as Cobb
No Poster
The Trojan Brothers
as W.H. Maxwell
No Poster
In the Zone
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
No Poster
Don Chicago
as Bugs Mulligan
The Shipbuilders
as McWain
They Met in the Dark
as Merchant Captain
Undercover
as Priest (uncredited)
Theatre Royal
as Clement J. Earle
Warn That Man
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
The Bells Go Down
as District Officer McFarlane
Thunder Rock
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
The Day Will Dawn
as Capt. Alstad
49th Parallel
as The Factor
Crook's Tour
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
No Poster
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
as Rubin
Paradise for Two
as Creditor
The Edge of the World
as James Gray
Wanted!
as Uncle Mart
Command Performance
as Al, Arthur's Manager
No Poster
Catch as Catch Can
as Al Parson
Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh
No Poster
The Gay Adventure
as Porter
The Improper Duchess
as Milton Lee
Me and Marlborough
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
Heat Wave
as Captain
Mister Cinders
as Henry Kemp
No Poster
The Big Splash
as Hartley Bassett
Little Friend
as Grove
My Old Dutch
as Mo
Gay Love
as Highams
No Poster
It's a Boy
as Publisher
Princess Charming
as Baron Seegman
Orders Is Orders
as Dave
No Funny Business
as Mr Potterton
No Poster
Excess Baggage
as inspector Toucan
The Good Companions
as Monte Mortimer
Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
The Frightened Lady
as Brooks
The Old Man
as Rennett