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Bunny Lake Is Missing

as The Doll Maker

1965
The Three Lives of Thomasina

as Grandpa Stirling

1963
Billy Liar

as Duxbury

1963
Francis of Assisi

as The Pope

1961
Kidnapped

as Cluny MacPherson

1960
The Angel Wore Red

as Bishop

1960
Solomon and Sheba

as David

1959
Corridors of Blood

as Supt. Charles Matheson

1963
Tempest

as Count Grinov

1958
Abandon Ship

as Mr. Wheaton

1957
The Little Hut

as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett

1957
Dangerous Exile

as Mr. Patient

1957
Around the World in Eighty Days

as Whist Partner

1956
Zarak

as The Mullah

1956
Captain Lightfoot

as Callahan

1955
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

as Hamish MacPherson

1954
Third Party Risk

as Mr. Darius

1954
Ivanhoe

as Cedric

1952
Kangaroo

as Michael McGuire

1952
Quo Vadis

as Peter

1951
People Will Talk

as Shunderson

1951
Treasure Island

as Capt. Billy Bones

1950
The Black Rose

as Alfgar

1950
Bonnie Prince Charlie

as The Marquis of Tullibardine

1948
Sleeping Car to Trieste

as Alastair McBain

1948
Great Expectations

as Abel Magwitch

1946
School for Secrets

as Sir Duncan Wills

1946
I Know Where I'm Going!

as Ruairidh Mhór

1947
Finlay Currie Finlay Currie

Birthday

1878-01-20

Place of Birth

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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.
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