Finlay Currie
Birthday: 1878-01-20 | Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UKFinlay 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.
Known For
Acting
Role
as The Doll Maker
as Duxbury
as Grandpa Stirling
as Supt. Charles Matheson
as The Pope
as Bishop
as Cluny MacPherson
as David
as Count Grinov
as Mr. Patient
as Mr. Wheaton
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
as The Mullah
as Whist Partner
as Callahan
as Hamish MacPherson
as Mr. Darius
as MacDougal
as Cedric
as Michael McGuire
as Peter
as Shunderson
as Alfgar
as Capt. Billy Bones
as Alastair McBain
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
as Ruairidh Mhór
as Abel Magwitch
as Sir Duncan Wills
