Jon Finch

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Jon Finch

Acting March 2, 1941

Caterham, Surrey, England

John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's f…

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Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

7.1 2005 Movie
Frenzy

Frenzy

7.1 1972 Movie
Death on the Nile

Death on the Nile

7.2 1978 Movie
Casualty

Casualty

6.2 1986 TV Show
The Bill

The Bill

6.8 1984 TV Show
Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

8.2 1984 TV Show
BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

5.2 1965 TV Show
The BBC Television Shakespeare

The BBC Television Shakespeare

6.0 1978 TV Show
Macbeth

Macbeth

7.1 1971 Movie
The Vampire Lovers

The Vampire Lovers

6.4 1970 Movie
ITV Saturday Night Theatre

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

7.0 1969 TV Show
The New Avengers

The New Avengers

7.2 1976 TV Show

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John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971). Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2014
    Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  2. 2005
    Kingdom of Heaven

    Movie Patriarch of Jerusalem

  3. 2004
    Tomb of Terror

    Movie Bennett

  4. 2001
    The Story of 'Frenzy'

    Movie Self

  5. 1998
    Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

    Movie Derek Jarvis

  6. 1996
    Darklands

    Movie David Keller

  7. 1996
    White Men Are Cracking Up

    Movie Detective Margrave

  8. 1994
    The World of Hammer

    TV show Self (archive footage)

  9. 1994
    Lurking Fear

    Movie Bennett

  10. 1994
    The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

    TV show Count Sylvius

  11. 1992
    Beautiful Lies

    Movie George Orwell

  12. 1992
    Love at First Sight

    TV show George

  13. 1992
    Maigret

    TV show

  14. 1991
    Merlin of the Crystal Cave

    TV show Vortigern

  15. 1989
    La più bella del reame

    Movie Jeremy

  16. 1989
    Streets of Yesterday

    Movie

More credits
  1. 1989
    The Voice

    Movie Miller

  2. 1989
    Unexplained Laughter

    Movie Finn

  3. 1988
    South of the Border

    TV show Trevor

  4. 1988
    The Play on One

    TV show Finn

  5. 1987
    Make and Break

    Movie Peter Davis

  6. 1986
    Casualty

    TV show Graham Lester

  7. 1984
    Much Ado About Nothing

    Movie Don Pedro

  8. 1984
    The Bill

    TV show

  9. 1984
    Pop Pirates

    Movie Coastguard

  10. 1984
    Sherlock Holmes

    TV show Count Sylvius

  11. 1984
    The Odd Job Man

    TV show George Griffin

  12. 1983
    Power Game

    Movie

  13. 1982
    Giro City

    Movie O'Mally

  14. 1982
    Doctor Faustus

    Movie Adrian Leverkühn

  15. 1981
    Peter and Paul

    TV show Luke

  16. 1980
    Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

    Movie

  17. 1980
    Breaking Glass

    Movie Woods

  18. 1980
    Hammer House of Horror

    TV show David

  19. 1980
    The Martian Chronicles

    TV show Christ

  20. 1979
    Henry IV Part 2

    Movie King Henry IV

  21. 1979
    Henry IV Part 1

    Movie King Henry IV

  22. 1979
    La Sabina

    Movie Michael

  23. 1978
    Richard II

    Movie Henry Bolingbroke

  24. 1978
    The BBC Television Shakespeare

    TV show Henry Bolingbroke