Peter Finch
Birthday: 1916-09-27 | Place of Birth: South Kensington, London, EnglandFrederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the BAFTA, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Finch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Acting
Role
as Yitzhak Rabin
as Azzolino
as Adm. Lord Horatio Nelson
as Erich Krogh
as Richard Conway
as Dr. Daniel Hirsh
as Umberto Nobile
as Lewis Zarken / Louie Flack
as Aaron Stein
as Paul
as Capt. Harris
as Eugene Gaillard
as Jake Armitage
as Murray Logan
as Alan Breck Stewart
as Jan Smit
as Oscar
as Dr. Fortunati
as Captain Starlight
as Joe Harman
as Comte De Ville
as Gustave Flambeau
as John Wiley
as Sheriff of Nottingham
as Australian in Hospital
as Humffray
as Peter Linton
