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