Frank Finlay
Acting
Born 1926-08-06
Died 2016-01-30
Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
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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.
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Filmography
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Play for Today
Wogan
Sherlock Holmes
BBC Play of the Month
Merlin
Heartbeat
Tales of the Unexpected
Screen Two
Theatre 625
The Pianist
The Wednesday Play
Prime Suspect
Blackadder
Z-Cars
Sunday Night Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
The Voyeur
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Lovejoy
The Key
The Longest Day
Lifeforce
Drama 61-67
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
NET Playhouse
The Three Musketeers
Studio 4
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
The Wild Geese
The Grand
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Life Begins
The Younger Generation
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Clouseau
A Christmas Carol
Longitude
The Four Musketeers
All for Love
Johnny and the Bomb
The Lost Prince
Murder by Decree
How Do You Want Me?
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Cromwell
The Molly Maguires
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Dear Brutus
The Return of the Musketeers
Robbery
Twisted Nerve
Laurence Olivier Presents
A Study in Terror
Casanova
The Statement
The Deadly Bees
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Sins
Nothing Like a Dame
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