Jon Finch
Acting • Born 1941-03-02 – Died 2012-12-28
Biography
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
55 credits
Frenzy
Movie • 1972
Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
Unexplained Laughter
Movie • 1989
Finn
The Horror of Frankenstein
Movie • 1970
Lt. Henry Becker
Death on the Nile
Movie • 1978
James Ferguson
Macbeth
Movie • 1971
Macbeth
Breaking Glass
Movie • 1980
Woods
The Final Programme
Movie • 1973
Jerry Cornelius
Tomb of Terror
Movie • 2004
Bennett
Lurking Fear
Movie • 1994
Bennett
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Movie • 1971
Scotsman
The Voice
Movie • 1989
Miller
Henry IV Part 2
Movie • 1979
King Henry IV
Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
Movie • 1980
The Big Screen
Movie • 1973
Self
Diagnosis: Murder
Movie • 1974
Lomax
Lady Caroline Lamb
Movie • 1972
William Lamb
Henry IV Part 1
Movie • 1979
King Henry IV
Richard II
Movie • 1978
Henry Bolingbroke
Make and Break
Movie • 1987
Peter Davis
The Standard
Movie • 1977
Charbinsky
Game of Seduction
Movie • 1976
Count Charles de Lapalmmes
Pop Pirates
Movie • 1984
Coastguard
La Sabina
Movie • 1979
Michael
Doctor Faustus
Movie • 1982
Adrian Leverkühn
The Vampire Lovers
Movie • 1970
Carl Ebhardt
Darklands
Movie • 1996
David Keller
La più bella del reame
Movie • 1989
Jeremy
Giro City
Movie • 1982
O'Mally
Polanski Meets Macbeth
Movie • 1972
Self
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Movie • 2001
Self
El segundo poder
Movie • 1976
Juan de Sacramonte
Beautiful Lies
Movie • 1992
George Orwell
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie • 1984
Don Pedro
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Movie • 1998
Derek Jarvis
Kingdom of Heaven
Movie • 2005
Patriarch of Jerusalem
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Power Game
Movie • 1983
Streets of Yesterday
Movie • 1989
White Men Are Cracking Up
Movie • 1996
Detective Margrave
The Bill
TV • 1984
The Martian Chronicles
TV • 1980
Christ
Sherlock Holmes
TV • 1984
Count Sylvius
The New Avengers
TV • 1976
Wallace
Counterstrike
TV • 1969
Maigret
TV • 1992
Hammer House of Horror
TV • 1980
David
Love at First Sight
TV • 1992
George
Casualty
TV • 1986
Graham Lester
Curro Jiménez
TV • 1976
McCallaghan
South Of The Border
TV • 1988
Trevor
Peter and Paul
TV • 1981
Luke
The Play on One
TV • 1988
Finn
BBC Play of the Month
TV • 1965
Sir Edward Mortimer
The World of Hammer
TV • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
TV • 1991
Vortigern