Finlay Currie
Acting • Born 1878-01-19 – Died 1968-05-09
Biography
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.
Filmography
118 credits
Ben-Hur
Movie • 1959
Balthasar
Murder at the Gallop
Movie • 1963
Old Enderby
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Movie • 1965
The Doll Maker
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Whist Partner
Corridors of Blood
Movie • 1963
Supt. Charles Matheson
People Will Talk
Movie • 1951
Shunderson
Treasure Island
Movie • 1950
Capt. Billy Bones
Quo Vadis
Movie • 1951
Peter
My Old Dutch
Movie • 1934
Mo
Billy Liar
Movie • 1963
Duxbury
Ivanhoe
Movie • 1952
Cedric
The Improper Duchess
Movie • 1936
Milton Lee
Me and Marlborough
Movie • 1935
Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
Great Expectations
Movie • 1946
Abel Magwitch
Solomon and Sheba
Movie • 1959
David
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1960
Captain Sellers
Kidnapped
Movie • 1960
Cluny MacPherson
Stars and Stripes Forever
Movie • 1952
Col. Randolph
The Edge of the World
Movie • 1937
James Gray
Footsteps in the Fog
Movie • 1955
Inspector Peters
6.5 Special
Movie • 1958
Himself
The Brothers
Movie • 1947
Hector Macrae
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Movie • 1964
Senator
So Evil My Love
Movie • 1948
Dr. Krylie
The History of Mr. Polly
Movie • 1949
Uncle Jim
School for Secrets
Movie • 1946
Sir Duncan Wills
I Know Where I'm Going!
Movie • 1945
Ruairidh Mhór
Walk East on Beacon
Movie • 1952
Professor Albert Kafer
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Movie • 1953
Hamish MacPherson
Thunder Rock
Movie • 1942
Capt. Joshua Stuart
Francis of Assisi
Movie • 1961
The Pope
Seven Waves Away
Movie • 1957
Mr. Wheaton
Joseph and His Brethren
Movie • 1961
Jacob
Saint Joan
Movie • 1957
Archbishop of Rheims
Third Party Risk
Movie • 1954
Mr. Darius
The Mudlark
Movie • 1950
John Brown
Captain Lightfoot
Movie • 1955
Callahan
My Daughter Joy
Movie • 1950
Sir Thomas McTavish
The Little Hut
Movie • 1957
The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Rome Express
Movie • 1932
Sam, Publicist
The Angel Wore Red
Movie • 1960
Bishop
The Inspector
Movie • 1962
De Kool
Kangaroo
Movie • 1952
Michael McGuire
The Bells Go Down
Movie • 1943
District Officer McFarlane
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Movie • 1965
Emcee
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Movie • 1948
Sir Joshua Varley
Treasure of the Golden Condor
Movie • 1953
MacDougal
Undercover
Movie • 1943
Priest (uncredited)
Make Me an Offer!
Movie • 1954
Abe Sparta
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Movie • 1948
The Marquis of Tullibardine
Hand in Hand
Movie • 1961
Mr. Pritchard
In the Zone
Movie • 1946
Mister Cinders
Movie • 1935
Henry Kemp
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Movie • 1948
Alastair McBain
Princess Charming
Movie • 1934
Baron Seegman
Clue of the Silver Key
Movie • 1961
Harvey Lane
Who Was Maddox?
Movie • 1964
Alex Campbell
Little Friend
Movie • 1934
Grove
Warn That Man
Movie • 1943
Captain Andrew Fletcher
The Good Companions
Movie • 1933
Monte Mortimer
49th Parallel
Movie • 1941
The Factor
Heat Wave
Movie • 1935
Captain
My Brother Jonathan
Movie • 1948
Dr. Hammond
King's Rhapsody
Movie • 1955
King Paul
Excess Baggage
Movie • 1933
inspector Toucan
No Funny Business
Movie • 1933
Mr Potterton
The Monkey's Paw
Movie • 1948
Sergeant-Major Morris
Tempest
Movie • 1958
Count Grinov
Dangerous Exile
Movie • 1957
Mr. Patient
Glamorous Night
Movie • 1937
Angus MacKintosh
The Day Will Dawn
Movie • 1942
Capt. Alstad
The Black Rose
Movie • 1950
Alfgar
Zarak
Movie • 1956
The Mullah
Gay Love
Movie • 1934
Highams
The Big Splash
Movie • 1935
Hartley Bassett
Brigadoon
Movie • 1966
Mr. Lundie
Paradise for Two
Movie • 1937
Creditor
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1966
Dodo
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Movie • 1938
Rubin
Crook's Tour
Movie • 1940
Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
Command Performance
Movie • 1937
Al, Arthur's Manager
The Old Man
Movie • 1931
Rennett
The Frightened Lady
Movie • 1932
Brooks
Trio
Movie • 1950
Mr. McLeod
West 11
Movie • 1963
Gash
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Movie • 1963
Grandpa Stirling
The Naked Earth
Movie • 1958
Father Verity
Campbell's Kingdom
Movie • 1957
Hyper-religious Old Barfly
Orders Is Orders
Movie • 1933
Dave
The Cracksman
Movie • 1963
Feathers
The End of the Road
Movie • 1954
Old 'Mick-Mack'
The Shipbuilders
Movie • 1943
McWain
The Amorous Prawn
Movie • 1962
Lochaye
Go to Blazes
Movie • 1962
Judge
Cleopatra
Movie • 1963
Titus (uncredited)
Wanted!
Movie • 1937
Uncle Mart
The Trojan Brothers
Movie • 1946
W.H. Maxwell
They Met in the Dark
Movie • 1943
Merchant Captain
Catch as Catch Can
Movie • 1937
Al Parson
Spring Song
Movie • 1946
Cobb
Don Chicago
Movie • 1945
Bugs Mulligan
Theatre Royal
Movie • 1943
Clement J. Earle
Rockets Galore
Movie • 1958
Narrator (uncredited)
Five Golden Hours
Movie • 1961
Father Superior
It's a Boy
Movie • 1934
Publisher
Vendetta for The Saint
Movie • 1969
Don Pasquale
Woman to Woman
Movie • 1947
Theatre Manager
The Gay Adventure
Movie • 1936
Porter
Whisky Galore!
Movie • 1949
Narrator
The Prisoner
TV • 1967
General
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
General Sir Hector McGregor
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
MacMorriss
The Count of Monte Cristo
TV • 1956
United!
TV • 1965
Les Misérables
TV • 1967
The Saint
TV • 1962
Don Pasquale
Man of the World
TV • 1962
Donald
Danger Man
TV • 1960
'Jock'