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