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Frank Finlay
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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 Ret…
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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.
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BODY OF WORK
Frank Finlay's Filmography
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Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
as (archive footage)
The Waiting Room
as Roger
Lighthouse Hill
as Alfred
The Statement
as Commissaire Vionnet
Eroica
as Josef Haydn
The Pianist
as Father
Station Jim
as Riorden Snr
The Martins
as Mr Heath
For My Baby
as Rudi Wittfogel
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as Father
Stiff Upper Lips
as Hudson Junior
No Poster
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
as Mike's Dad
Limited Edition
as John Rathbone
The Miracle of Medjugorje
as Monsignor
A Mind to Murder
as Professor Etherege
Sparrow
as Father Nunzio
The Voyeur
as Nino Rolfe
Stalin
as Sergei
No Poster
The Other Side
as Arthur Conan Doyle
Cthulhu Mansion
as Chandu
Mountain of Diamonds
as Garrick
King of the Wind
as Edward Coke
The Return of the Musketeers
as Porthos
Casanova
as Razetta
Nineteen Nineteen
as Sigmund Freud (voice)
Lifeforce
as Dr. Hans Fallada
In the Secret State
as Frank Strange
No Poster
The Making Of Lifeforce
as Self
Arch of Triumph
as Col. Boris Morosov
Royal Variety Performance 1984
A Christmas Carol
as Jacob Marley
Sakharov
as Kravtsov
The Key
as Nino Rolfe
The Ploughman's Lunch
as Matthew Fox
The Return of the Soldier
as William Grey
Enigma
as Canarsky
Mona
as Captain Manson
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
as Shahriar
No Poster
Dear Brutus
as Dearth
Ring of Darkness
as Paul
Murder by Decree
as Inspector Lestrade
No Poster
Betzi
as Napoleon
The Wild Geese
as Fr. Geoghagen
The Thief of Baghdad
as Abu Bakar
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
as Peppino
Count Dracula
as Abraham van Helsing
84 Charing Cross Road
as Frank Doel
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Four Musketeers
as Porthos
Van der Valk and the Rich
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Three Musketeers
as Porthos / O'Reilly
Shaft in Africa
as Vincent Amafi
The Death of Adolf Hitler
as Adolf Hitler
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
as Sancho Panza
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
as George Dabernon
Sitting Target
as Marty Gold
No Poster
Danny Jones
The Merchant of Venice
as Shylock
Gumshoe
as William Ginley
Assault
as Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
The Lie
as Andrew Firth
The Body
as Narrator
Cromwell
as John Carter
The Molly Maguires
as Davies
No Poster
Blood of the Lamb
as Albert
Julius Caesar
as Brutus
No Poster
The Piano Tuner
as Wilfred Tilley
No Poster
This Happy Breed
as Frank Gibbons
Twisted Nerve
as Henry Durnley
The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Igor Bounin
Inspector Clouseau
as Supt. Weaver
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as Chaplain
Robbery
as Robinson
The Jokers
as Harrassed Man
Much Ado About Nothing
as Dogberry
No Poster
The Spare Tyres
as Council foreman
The Deadly Bees
as H.W. Manfred
The Sandwich Man
as Second Fish Porter
Othello
as Iago
The Wild Affair
as Drunk
A Study in Terror
as Inspector Lestrade
The Comedy Man
as Prout
Hot Enough for June
as British Embassy Porter
The Informers
as Leon Sale
Doctor in Distress
as Corsetiere
The Longest Day
as Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
as Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Life for Ruth
as Teddy's Father
No Poster
The Hard Knock
as Franco Angelo
Private Potter
as Capt. Patterson