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