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Frank Finlay
Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
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…
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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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2018
Nothing Like a Dame
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Fifty Shades of Erotica
Movie (archive footage)
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2008
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
TV show Alexander 'Alex' Combe
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2008
Merlin
TV show Anhora
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2007
The Waiting Room
Movie Roger
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2006
Johnny and the Bomb
TV show Tom Maxwell
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2004
Lighthouse Hill
Movie Alfred
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2004
Life Begins
TV show Eric Thornhill
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2003
The Statement
Movie Commissaire Vionnet
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2003
Eroica
Movie Josef Haydn
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2003
The Lost Prince
TV show Asquith
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2002
The Pianist
Movie Father
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2001
Station Jim
Movie Riorden Snr
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2001
The Martins
Movie Mr Heath
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2000
The Sins
TV show Uncle Irwin Green
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2000
For My Baby
Movie Rudi Wittfogel
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2000
Longitude
TV show Admiral Wagner
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1999
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
TV show General Bulstrode
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1999
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Movie Father
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1998
Stiff Upper Lips
Movie Hudson Junior
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1998
How Do You Want Me?
TV show
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1997
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Movie Mike's Dad
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1997
The Grand
TV show Edward Lawrence
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1997
Limited Edition
Movie John Rathbone
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1995
The Miracle of Medjugorje
Movie Monsignor
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1995
A Mind to Murder
Movie Professor Etherege
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1994
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
TV show Professor Coram / Sergius
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1994
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
TV show Alcuin
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1994
Sparrow
Movie Father Nunzio
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1994
The Voyeur
Movie Nino Rolfe
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1993
An Exchange of Fire
TV show Pavel Rhele
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1992
Stalin
Movie Sergei
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1992
The Other Side
Movie Arthur Conan Doyle
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1992
Heartbeat
TV show Howard Franklin
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1992
Cthulhu Mansion
Movie Chandu
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1991
Mountain of Diamonds
Movie Garrick
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1991
Mountain of Diamonds
TV show Garrick
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1991
Prime Suspect
TV show Arnold Tennison
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1991
The Burning Shore
TV show Garrick
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1990
King of the Wind
Movie Edward Coke
