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