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