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