Acting
Finlay Currie
Biography
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.
Movies with Finlay Currie
Ben-Hur
1959
Cleopatra
1963
Quo Vadis
1951
Great Expectations
1946
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Ivanhoe
1952
Treasure Island
1950
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Solomon and Sheba
1959
Zarak
1956
Gay Love
1934
Kangaroo
1952
49th Parallel
1941
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
Seven Waves Away
1957
Billy Liar
1963
The Black Rose
1950
School for Secrets
1946
Undercover
1943
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
People Will Talk
1951
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
Murder at the Gallop
1963
The Inspector
1962
Alice in Wonderland
1966
Kidnapped
1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
Whisky Galore!
1949
Francis of Assisi
1961
Captain Lightfoot
1955
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
Corridors of Blood
1958
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963
The Old Man
1931
The Naked Earth
1958
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
Joseph and His Brethren
1961
The Cracksman
1963
Saint Joan
1957
The Little Hut
1957
So Evil My Love
1948
Campbell's Kingdom
1957
My Brother Jonathan
1948
The Big Splash
1935
Little Friend
1934
The Mudlark
1950
Five Golden Hours
1961
Paradise for Two
1937
No Funny Business
1933
Tempest
1958
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
Vendetta for The Saint
1969
Go to Blazes
1962
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
Rockets Galore
1958
Trio
1950
The Angel Wore Red
1960
The History of Mr. Polly
1949
Dangerous Exile
1957
The End of the Road
1954
Thunder Rock
1942
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
The Frightened Lady
1932
West 11
1963
The Good Companions
1933
The Brothers
1947
Rome Express
1932
Stars and Stripes Forever
1952
The Day Will Dawn
1942
Who Was Maddox?
1964
6.5 Special
1958
They Met in the Dark
1943
The Monkey's Paw
1948
The Amorous Prawn
1962
The Edge of the World
1937
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948
Warn That Man
1943
Hand in Hand
1961
Orders Is Orders
1933
Third Party Risk
1954
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
The Bells Go Down
1943
Crook's Tour
1940
Woman to Woman
1947
Brigadoon
1966
Theatre Royal
1943
King's Rhapsody
1955
Make Me an Offer!
1954
Catch as Catch Can
1937
Walk East on Beacon
1952
Don Chicago
1945
The Improper Duchess
1936
My Old Dutch
1934
Command Performance
1937
The Shipbuilders
1943
The Trojan Brothers
1946
Heat Wave
1935
Princess Charming
1934
Me and Marlborough
1935
Glamorous Night
1937
My Daughter Joy
1950
In the Zone
1946
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
1938
Excess Baggage
1933
Mister Cinders
1935
Wanted!
1937
It's a Boy
1934
Spring Song
1946
The Gay Adventure
1936
