
Actor
Born March 2, 1941 in Caterham, Surrey, England
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.

Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Self (archive footage)

Kingdom of Heaven
Patriarch of Jerusalem

Tomb of Terror
Bennett

The Story of 'Frenzy'
Self

Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Derek Jarvis

Darklands
David Keller

White Men Are Cracking Up
Detective Margrave

The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)

Lurking Fear
Bennett

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius

Beautiful Lies
George Orwell

Love at First Sight
George

Maigret

Merlin of the Crystal Cave
Vortigern

La più bella del reame
Jeremy

Streets of Yesterday

Unexplained Laughter
Finn

South of the Border
Trevor

The Play on One
Finn

Make and Break
Peter Davis

Casualty
Graham Lester

Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro

The Bill

Pop Pirates
Coastguard

Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius

Power Game

Giro City
O'Mally

Doctor Faustus
Adrian Leverkühn

Peter and Paul
Luke

Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

Breaking Glass
Woods

Hammer House of Horror
David

The Martian Chronicles
Christ

Henry IV Part 2
King Henry IV

Henry IV Part 1
King Henry IV

La Sabina
Michael

Richard II
Henry Bolingbroke

The BBC Television Shakespeare
Henry Bolingbroke

Death on the Nile
James Ferguson

The Standard
Charbinsky

Curro Jiménez
McCallaghan

The New Avengers
Wallace

Game of Seduction
Count Charles de Lapalmmes

El segundo poder
Juan de Sacramonte

Diagnosis: Murder
Lomax

The Final Programme
Jerry Cornelius

The Big Screen
Self

Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb

Frenzy
Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney

Polanski Meets Macbeth
Self

Macbeth
Macbeth

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scotsman

The Horror of Frankenstein
Lt. Henry Becker

The Vampire Lovers
Carl Ebhardt

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Steve

BBC Play of the Month
Sir Edward Mortimer