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