Finlay Currie
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.
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Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1878-01-19
Place of birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Images
Cast
Ben-Hur
1959
7.88
Murder at the Gallop
1963
6.99
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
7.20
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
6.60
Corridors of Blood
1958
6.10
People Will Talk
1951
7.15
Treasure Island
1950
6.58
Quo Vadis
1951
7.10
My Old Dutch
1934
0.00
Billy Liar
1963
6.88
Ivanhoe
1952
6.80
The Improper Duchess
1936
0.00
Me and Marlborough
1935
4.50
Great Expectations
1946
7.30
Solomon and Sheba
1959
6.40
Kidnapped
1960
6.40
Stars and Stripes Forever
1952
6.90
The Edge of the World
1937
7.20
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
7.00
6.5 Special
1958
0.00
The Brothers
1947
5.20
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
6.50
So Evil My Love
1948
6.30
The History of Mr. Polly
1949
7.44
School for Secrets
1946
7.00
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
7.10
Walk East on Beacon
1952
5.10
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
5.10
Thunder Rock
1942
6.10
Francis of Assisi
1961
7.60
Abandon Ship
1957
7.40
Joseph and His Brethren
1961
5.80
Saint Joan
1957
6.50
Third Party Risk
1954
4.60
The Mudlark
1950
6.50
Captain Lightfoot
1955
6.26
My Daughter Joy
1950
0.00
The Little Hut
1957
6.50
Rome Express
1932
6.20
The Angel Wore Red
1960
5.30
The Inspector
1962
6.70
Kangaroo
1952
5.20
The Bells Go Down
1943
6.80
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
4.80
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
7.70
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
6.20
Undercover
1943
5.80
Make Me an Offer!
1954
6.70
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
4.70
Hand in Hand
1961
7.22
In the Zone
1946
0.00
Mister Cinders
1934
0.00
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948
6.70
Princess Charming
1934
7.00
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
7.00
Who Was Maddox?
1964
8.50
Little Friend
1934
3.50
Warn That Man
1943
5.30
The Good Companions
1933
5.80
49th Parallel
1941
7.00
Heat Wave
1935
0.00
My Brother Jonathan
1948
6.60
King's Rhapsody
1955
3.00
Excess Baggage
1933
0.00
No Funny Business
1933
0.00
The Monkey's Paw
1948
0.00
Tempest
1958
6.00
Dangerous Exile
1957
6.20
Glamorous Night
1937
6.00
The Day Will Dawn
1942
5.60
The Black Rose
1950
6.50
Zarak
1956
4.70
Gay Love
1934
0.00
The Big Splash
1935
0.00
Brigadoon
1966
7.00
Paradise for Two
1937
5.00
Alice in Wonderland
1966
7.30
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
1938
0.00
Crook's Tour
1940
5.68
Command Performance
1937
6.50
The Old Man
1931
0.00
The Frightened Lady
1932
0.00
Trio
1950
6.30
West 11
1963
6.92
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963
6.80
The Naked Earth
1958
0.00
Campbell's Kingdom
1957
5.60
Orders Is Orders
1933
0.00
The Cracksman
1963
6.30
The End of the Road
1954
6.00
The Shipbuilders
1943
6.00
The Amorous Prawn
1962
6.30
Go to Blazes
1962
6.30
Cleopatra
1963
7.04
Wanted!
1937
0.00
The Trojan Brothers
1946
5.00
They Met in the Dark
1943
6.30
Catch as Catch Can
1937
0.00
Spring Song
1946
6.00
Don Chicago
1945
4.00
Theatre Royal
1943
3.50
Rockets Galore
1958
6.00
Five Golden Hours
1961
6.00
It's a Boy
1934
0.00
Vendetta for The Saint
1969
6.70