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