Frank Finlay
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Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement. His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.
Known for
Credits
The Pianist (2002)
as Father
The Voyeur (1994)
as Nino Rolfe
The Key (1983)
as Nino Rolfe
Lifeforce (1985)
as Dr. Hans Fallada
The Longest Day (1962)
as Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
as Porthos / O'Reilly
The Wild Geese (1978)
as Fr. Geoghagen
The Miracle of Medjugorje (1995)
as Monsignor
Casanova (1987)
as Razetta
A Christmas Carol (1984)
as Jacob Marley
The Four Musketeers (1974)
as Porthos
Dear Brutus (1981)
as Dearth
Julius Caesar (1969)
as Brutus
The Molly Maguires (1970)
as Davies
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
as Supt. Weaver
Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)
as (archive footage)
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
as Porthos
A Study in Terror (1965)
as Inspector Lestrade
Murder by Decree (1979)
as Inspector Lestrade
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?) (1997)
as Mike's Dad
The Merchant of Venice (1972)
as Shylock
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
as Igor Bounin
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
as Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Cromwell (1970)
as John Carter
Robbery (1967)
as Robinson
Twisted Nerve (1968)
as Henry Durnley
The Statement (2003)
as Commissaire Vionnet
Stalin (1992)
as Sergei
Shaft in Africa (1973)
as Vincent Amafi
Limited Edition (1997)
as John Rathbone
Danny Jones (1972)
Actor
Mona (1982)
as Captain Manson
Enigma (1982)
as Canarsky
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
as Dogberry
Betzi (1978)
as Napoleon
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
as Abu Bakar
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
as William Grey
Arch of Triumph (1984)
as Col. Boris Morosov
Hot Enough for June (1964)
as British Embassy Porter
The Deadly Bees (1966)
as H.W. Manfred
Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
as Garrick
Ring of Darkness (1979)
as Paul
Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
as Hudson Junior
Count Dracula (1977)
as Abraham van Helsing
This Happy Breed (1969)
as Frank Gibbons
Assault (1971)
as Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
Royal Variety Performance 1984 (1984)
Actor
Gumshoe (1971)
as William Ginley
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
as Father
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)
as George Dabernon
Sitting Target (1972)
as Marty Gold
The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
as Matthew Fox
The Waiting Room (2007)
as Roger
Othello (1965)
as Iago
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
as Chaplain
Sparrow (1994)
as Father Nunzio
The Making Of Lifeforce (1985)
as Self
Sakharov (1984)
as Kravtsov
The Informers (1963)
as Leon Sale
Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
as Chandu
The Jokers (1967)
as Harrassed Man
The Sandwich Man (1966)
as Second Fish Porter
Doctor in Distress (1963)
as Corsetiere
King of the Wind (1990)
as Edward Coke
Station Jim (2001)
as Riorden Snr
The Martins (2001)
as Mr Heath
Eroica (2003)
as Josef Haydn
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat (1975)
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)
as Adolf Hitler
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter (1974)
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Lighthouse Hill (2004)
as Alfred
Life for Ruth (1962)
as Teddy's Father
The Lie (1970)
as Andrew Firth
The Body (1970)
as Narrator
84 Charing Cross Road (1975)
as Frank Doel
Van der Valk and the Rich (1973)
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Private Potter (1962)
as Capt. Patterson
The Wild Affair (1965)
as Drunk
Blood of the Lamb (1969)
as Albert
A Mind to Murder (1995)
as Professor Etherege
For My Baby (2000)
as Rudi Wittfogel
The Adventures Of Don Quixote (1973)
as Sancho Panza
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1981)
as Shahriar
In the Secret State (1985)
as Frank Strange
Nineteen Nineteen (1985)
as Sigmund Freud (voice)
The Comedy Man (1964)
as Prout
Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978)
as Peppino
The Hard Knock (1962)
as Franco Angelo
The Other Side (1992)
as Arthur Conan Doyle
The Spare Tyres (1967)
as Council foreman
The Piano Tuner (1969)
as Wilfred Tilley