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Finlay Currie
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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 stag…
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Finlay Currie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1969
Vendetta for The Saint
Movie Don Pasquale
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1967
Les Misérables
TV show
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1967
The Prisoner
TV show General
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1966
Alice in Wonderland
Movie Dodo
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1966
Brigadoon
Movie Mr. Lundie
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1965
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Movie Doll Maker
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1965
Knock on Any Door
TV show Old Man
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1965
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Movie Emcee
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1965
Gideon's Way
TV show General Sir Hector McGregor
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1964
Who Was Maddox?
Movie Alex Campbell
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1964
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Movie Senator
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1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Movie Grandpa Stirling
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1963
West 11
Movie Gash
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1963
Billy Liar
Movie Duxbury
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1963
Cleopatra
Movie Titus (uncredited)
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1963
Murder at the Gallop
Movie Old Enderby
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1963
The Cracksman
Movie Feathers
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1962
The Amorous Prawn
Movie Lochaye
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1962
The Saint
TV show Don Pasquale
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1962
Man of the World
TV show Donald
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1962
The Inspector
Movie De Kool
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1962
Go to Blazes
Movie Judge
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1961
Joseph and His Brethren
Movie Jacob
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1961
Clue of the Silver Key
Movie Harvey Lane
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1961
Francis of Assisi
Movie The Pope
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1961
Hand in Hand
Movie Mr. Pritchard
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1961
Five Golden Hours
Movie Father Superior
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1960
Danger Man
TV show 'Jock'
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1960
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie Captain Sellers
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1960
The Angel Wore Red
Movie Bishop
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1960
Kidnapped
Movie Cluny MacPherson
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1959
Ben-Hur
Movie Balthasar
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1959
Solomon and Sheba
Movie David
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1958
Corridors of Blood
Movie Supt. Charles Matheson
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1958
Tempest
Movie Count Grinov
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1958
Rockets Galore
Movie Narrator (uncredited)
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1958
6.5 Special
Movie Himself
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1958
The Naked Earth
Movie Father Verity
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1957
Dangerous Exile
Movie Mr. Patient
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1957
Campbell's Kingdom
Movie Hyper-religious Old Barfly
