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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 19, 1878
Died
May 9, 1968
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also Known As
- William Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie
0.7 Popularity
Biography
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
6.9
Don Pasquale
Vendetta for The Saint
1969
4.0
Les Misérables
1967
7.7
General
The Prisoner
1967
5.9
Dodo
Alice in Wonderland
1966
7.0
Mr. Lundie
Brigadoon
1966
🎬
0.0
United!
1965
7.2
The Doll Maker
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
4.0
Emcee
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
6.8
General Sir Hector McGregor
Gideon's Way
1965
7.7
Alex Campbell
Who Was Maddox?
1964
Credits
Vendetta for The Saint
as Don Pasquale
1969
6.9
Les Misérables
1967
4.0
The Prisoner
as General
1967
7.7
Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
1966
5.9
Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
1966
7.0
🎬
United!
1965
0.0
Bunny Lake Is Missing
as The Doll Maker
1965
7.2
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee
1965
4.0
Gideon's Way
as General Sir Hector McGregor
1965
6.8
Who Was Maddox?
as Alex Campbell
1964
7.7
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
1964
6.5
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
1963
6.8
West 11
as Gash
1963
6.9
Billy Liar
as Duxbury
1963
6.8
Cleopatra
as Titus
1963
7.0
Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
1963
6.2
Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
1963
7.0
The Cracksman
as Feathers
1963
6.3
The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye
1962
6.3
The Saint
as Don Pasquale
1962
7.4
Man of the World
as Donald
1962
7.0
The Inspector
as De Kool
1962
7.0
Go to Blazes
as Judge
1962
6.3
Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob
1961
5.8
Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane
1961
7.0
Francis of Assisi
as The Pope
1961
7.6
Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
1961
7.2
Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior
1961
6.0
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
1960
5.8
The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop
1960
4.8
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
1960
6.6
Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
1959
7.9
Solomon and Sheba
as David
1959
6.4
Tempest
as Count Grinov
1958
6.0
Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)
1958
6.0
6.5 Special
as Himself
1958
0.0
The Naked Earth
as Father Verity
1958
0.0
Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
1957
6.2
Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
1957
5.9
Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
1957
6.4
The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
1957
6.5
Abandon Ship
as Mr. Wheaton
1957
7.4
Zarak Khan
as The Mullah
1956
4.7
Around the World in 80 Days
as Whist Partner
1956
6.6
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
4.4
Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
1955
7.0
King's Rhapsody
as King Paul
1955
3.0
Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan
1955
6.2
Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta
1954
6.8
Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius
1954
4.7
The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
1954
6.0
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson
1953
4.9
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal
1953
6.2
General Electric Theater
as MacMorriss
1953
6.4
Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph
1952
6.9
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
1952
6.8
Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer
1952
5.2
Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
1952
5.2
Quo Vadis
as Peter
1951
7.1
People Will Talk
as Shunderson
1951
7.1
Trio
as Mr. McLeod
1950
6.3
The Mudlark
as John Brown
1950
6.5
The Black Rose
as Alfgar
1950
6.6
My Daughter Joy
as Sir Thomas McTavish
1950
0.0
Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
1950
6.6
Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
1949
6.8
The History of Mr. Polly
as Uncle Jim
1949
7.4
Bonnie Prince Charlie
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
1948
4.7
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Alastair McBain
1948
6.7
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Sir Joshua Varley
1948
7.7
So Evil My Love
as Dr. Krylie
1948
6.3
The Monkey's Paw
as Sergeant-Major Morris
1948
0.0
My Brother Jonathan
as Dr. Hammond
1948
6.6
The Brothers
as Hector Macrae
1947
5.2
🎬
Woman to Woman
as Theatre Manager
1947
0.0
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
1946
7.3
School for Secrets
as Sir Duncan Wills
1946
7.0
Spring Song
as Cobb
1946
6.0
🎬
The Trojan Brothers
as W.H. Maxwell
1946
5.0
🎬
In the Zone
1946
0.0
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
1945
7.0
🎬
Don Chicago
as Bugs Mulligan
1945
4.0
The Shipbuilders
as McWain
1943
6.0
They Met in the Dark
as Merchant Captain
1943
6.3
Undercover
as Priest (uncredited)
1943
5.8
Theatre Royal
as Clement J. Earle
1943
3.5
Warn That Man
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
1943
5.3
The Bells Go Down
as District Officer McFarlane
1943
7.1
Thunder Rock
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
1942
6.2
The Day Will Dawn
as Capt. Alstad
1942
5.6
49th Parallel
as The Factor
1941
6.9
Crook's Tour
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
1940
5.7
🎬
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
as Rubin
1938
0.0
Paradise for Two
as Creditor
1937
5.0
The Edge of the World
as James Gray
1937
7.2
Wanted!
as Uncle Mart
1937
0.0
Command Performance
as Al, Arthur's Manager
1937
6.5
🎬
Catch as Catch Can
as Al Parson
1937
0.0
Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh
1937
6.0
🎬
The Gay Adventure
as Porter
1936
0.0
The Improper Duchess
as Milton Lee
1936
0.0
Me and Marlborough
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
1935
5.0
Heat Wave
as Captain
1935
0.0
Mister Cinders
as Henry Kemp
1935
0.0
🎬
The Big Splash
as Hartley Bassett
1935
0.0
Little Friend
as Grove
1934
3.5
My Old Dutch
as Mo
1934
4.0
Gay Love
as Highams
1934
0.0
🎬
It's a Boy
as Publisher
1934
0.0
Princess Charming
as Baron Seegman
1934
7.0
Orders Is Orders
as Dave
1933
0.0
No Funny Business
as Mr Potterton
1933
0.0
🎬
Excess Baggage
as inspector Toucan
1933
0.0
The Good Companions
as Monte Mortimer
1933
5.8
Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
1932
6.0
The Frightened Lady
as Brooks
1932
0.0
The Old Man
as Rennett
1931
0.0