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
The Longest Day (1962)
as Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
Lifeforce (1985)
as Dr. Hans Fallada
The Three Musketeers (1973)
as Porthos / O'Reilly
The Wild Geese (1978)
as Fr. Geoghagen
The Four Musketeers (1974)
as Porthos
A Christmas Carol (1984)
as Jacob Marley
Inspector Clouseau (1968)
as Supt. Weaver
Shaft in Africa (1973)
as Vincent Amafi
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
as Porthos
The Molly Maguires (1970)
as Davies
Murder by Decree (1979)
as Inspector Lestrade
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
as Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Twisted Nerve (1968)
as Henry Durnley
Cromwell (1970)
as John Carter
Robbery (1967)
as Robinson
The Statement (2003)
as Commissaire Vionnet
Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)
as (archive footage)
The Thief of Baghdad (1978)
as Abu Bakar
Julius Caesar (1969)
as Brutus
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
as Igor Bounin
Casanova (1987)
as Razetta
Nothing Like a Dame (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Stalin (1992)
as Sergei
A Study in Terror (1965)
as Inspector Lestrade
Enigma (1982)
as Canarsky
Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
as Garrick
The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
as Matthew Fox
Hot Enough for June (1964)
as British Embassy Porter
Sparrow (1994)
as Father Nunzio
The Jokers (1967)
as Harrassed Man
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
as Father
The Martins (2001)
as Mr Heath
Danny Jones (1972)
Actor
Sitting Target (1972)
as Marty Gold
Dear Brutus (1981)
as Dearth
The Informers (1963)
as Leon Sale
The Deadly Bees (1966)
as H.W. Manfred
The Return of the Soldier (1983)
as William Grey
I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
as Chaplain
For My Baby (2000)
as Rudi Wittfogel
Count Dracula (1977)
as Abraham van Helsing
Doctor in Distress (1963)
as Corsetiere
Arch of Triumph (1984)
as Col. Boris Morosov
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?) (1997)
as Mike's Dad
Othello (1965)
as Iago
Much Ado About Nothing (1967)
as Dogberry
Station Jim (2001)
as Riorden Snr
Ring of Darkness (1979)
as Paul
King of the Wind (1990)
as Edward Coke
Limited Edition (1997)
as John Rathbone
Betzi (1978)
as Napoleon
Virgin Mary (1995)
as Monsignor
Stiff Upper Lips (1998)
as Hudson Junior
Sakharov (1984)
as Kravtsov
Gumshoe (1971)
as William Ginley
The Body (1970)
as Narrator
Eroica (2003)
as Josef Haydn
The Comedy Man (1964)
as Prout
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)
as George Dabernon
Life for Ruth (1962)
as Teddy's Father
This Happy Breed (1969)
as Frank Gibbons
Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
as Chandu
The Waiting Room (2007)
as Roger
The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)
as Adolf Hitler
The Sandwich Man (1966)
as Second Fish Porter
A Mind to Murder (1995)
as Professor Etherege
The Merchant of Venice (1972)
as Shylock
The Making Of Lifeforce (1985)
as Self
Lighthouse Hill (2004)
as Alfred
Mona (1982)
as Captain Manson
Royal Variety Performance 1984 (1984)
Actor
The Wild Affair (1965)
as Drunk
The Lie (1970)
as Andrew Firth
Saturday, Sunday, Monday (1978)
as Peppino
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter (1974)
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Adventures Of Don Quixote (1973)
as Sancho Panza
Nineteen Nineteen (1985)
as Sigmund Freud (voice)
In the Secret State (1985)
as Frank Strange
Van der Valk and the Rich (1973)
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Assault (1971)
as Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat (1975)
as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Other Side (1992)
as Arthur Conan Doyle
Private Potter (1962)
as Capt. Patterson
84 Charing Cross Road (1975)
as Frank Doel
Blood of the Lamb (1969)
as Albert
The Hard Knock (1962)
as Franco Angelo
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (1981)
as Shahriar
The Spare Tyres (1967)
as Council foreman
The Piano Tuner (1969)
as Wilfred Tilley