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