Finlay Currie
Acting
Born 1878-01-19
Died 1968-05-09
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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The Saint
Gideon's Way
Ben-Hur
Danger Man
The Prisoner
Cleopatra
The Count of Monte Cristo
Around the World in 80 Days
Man of the World
Quo Vadis
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Great Expectations
Treasure Island
Solomon and Sheba
Ivanhoe
49th Parallel
Kidnapped
Knock on Any Door
Murder at the Gallop
Seven Waves Away
Bunny Lake Is Missing
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Billy Liar
Gay Love
Zarak
Armchair Theatre
Whisky Galore!
General Electric Theater
The Black Rose
Footsteps in the Fog
Kangaroo
Saint Joan
I Know Where I'm Going!
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Joseph and His Brethren
People Will Talk
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Undercover
Captain Lightfoot
Campbell's Kingdom
Francis of Assisi
Tempest
The Bells Go Down
Corridors of Blood
6.5 Special
So Evil My Love
Treasure of the Golden Condor
Little Friend
The Cracksman
The Mudlark
Orders Is Orders
Alice in Wonderland
Stars and Stripes Forever
The Frightened Lady
Rome Express
Trio
Vendetta for The Saint
The Edge of the World
The Inspector
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