Finlay Currie
108 movies · 10 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 19, 1878
- Died
- May 9, 1968 (age 90)
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as
- William 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.
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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
Finlay Currie: movies and TV shows
Acting (118)
- 1969 Vendetta for The Saint
as Don Pasquale
- 1967
- 1967
- 1966 Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
- 1966 Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
- 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing
as Doll Maker
- 1965
- 1965 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee
- 1965
- 1964 Who Was Maddox?
as Alex Campbell
- 1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
- 1963 The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
- 1963 West 11
as Gash
- 1963 Billy Liar
as Duxbury
- 1963 Cleopatra
as Titus (uncredited)
- 1963 Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
- 1963 The Cracksman
as Feathers
- 1962 The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 The Inspector
as De Kool
- 1962 Go to Blazes
as Judge
- 1961 Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob
- 1961 Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane
- 1961 Francis of Assisi
as The Pope
- 1961 Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
- 1961 Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior
- 1960
- 1960 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
- 1960 The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop
- 1960 Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
- 1959 Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
- 1959 Solomon and Sheba
as David
- 1958 Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
- 1958 Tempest
as Count Grinov
- 1958 Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)
- 1958 The Naked Earth
as Father Verity
- 1957 Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
- 1957 Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
- 1957 Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
- 1957 The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
- 1957 Seven Waves Away
as Mr. Wheaton
- 1956 Zarak
as The Mullah
- 1956 Around the World in 80 Days
as Whist Partner
- 1956
- 1956
- 1955 Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
- 1955 King's Rhapsody
as King Paul
- 1955 Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan
- 1954 Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta
- 1954 Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius
- 1954 The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
- 1953 Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson
- 1953 Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal
- 1953
- 1952 Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph
- 1952 Ivanhoe
as Cedric
- 1952 Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer
- 1952 Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
- 1951 Quo Vadis
as Peter
- 1951 People Will Talk
as Shunderson
- 1950 Trio
as Mr. McLeod
- 1950 The Mudlark
as John Brown
- 1950 The Black Rose
as Alfgar
- 1950 My Daughter Joy
as Sir Thomas McTavish
- 1950 Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
- 1949 Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
- 1949 The History of Mr. Polly
as Uncle Jim
- 1948 Bonnie Prince Charlie
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
- 1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Alastair McBain
- 1948 Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Sir Joshua Varley
- 1948 So Evil My Love
as Dr. Krylie
- 1948 The Monkey's Paw
as Sergeant-Major Morris
- 1948 My Brother Jonathan
as Dr. Hammond
- 1947 The Brothers
as Hector Macrae
- 1947 Woman to Woman
as Theatre Manager
- 1946 Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
- 1946 School for Secrets
as Sir Duncan Wills
- 1946 Spring Song
as Cobb
- 1946 The Trojan Brothers
as W.H. Maxwell
- 1946
- 1945 I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
- 1945 Don Chicago
as Bugs Mulligan
- 1943 The Shipbuilders
as McWain
- 1943 They Met in the Dark
as Merchant Captain
- 1943 Undercover
as Priest (uncredited)
- 1943 Theatre Royal
as Clement J. Earle
- 1943 Warn That Man
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
- 1943 The Bells Go Down
as District Officer McFarlane
- 1942 Thunder Rock
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
- 1942 The Day Will Dawn
as Capt. Alstad
- 1941 49th Parallel
as The Factor
- 1940 Crook's Tour
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
- 1938 The Claydon Treasure Mystery
as Rubin
- 1937 Paradise for Two
as Creditor
- 1937 The Edge of the World
as James Gray
- 1937 Wanted!
as Uncle Mart
- 1937 Command Performance
as Al, Arthur's Manager
- 1937 Catch as Catch Can
as Al Parson
- 1937 Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh
- 1936 The Gay Adventure
as Porter
- 1936 The Improper Duchess
as Milton Lee
- 1935 Me and Marlborough
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
- 1935 Heat Wave
as Captain
- 1935 Mister Cinders
as Henry Kemp
- 1935 The Big Splash
as Hartley Bassett
- 1934 Little Friend
as Grove
- 1934 My Old Dutch
as Mo
- 1934 Gay Love
as Highams
- 1934 It's a Boy
as Publisher
- 1934 Princess Charming
as Baron Seegman
- 1933 Orders Is Orders
as Dave
- 1933 No Funny Business
as Mr Potterton
- 1933 Excess Baggage
as inspector Toucan
- 1933 The Good Companions
as Monte Mortimer
- 1932 Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
- 1932 The Frightened Lady
as Brooks
- 1931 The Old Man
as Rennett
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1958