Finlay Currie
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.
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Acting (99 movies)
Ben-Hur
1959
Murder at the Gallop
1963
Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
Around the World in Eighty Days
1956
Corridors of Blood
1958
People Will Talk
1951
Treasure Island
1950
Quo Vadis
1951
My Old Dutch
1934
Billy Liar
1963
Ivanhoe
1952
The Improper Duchess
1936
Me and Marlborough
1935
Great Expectations
1946
Solomon and Sheba
1959
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960
Kidnapped
1960
Stars and Stripes Forever
1952
The Edge of the World
1937
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
6.5 Special
1958
The Brothers
1947
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
So Evil My Love
1948
The History of Mr. Polly
1949
School for Secrets
1946
I Know Where I'm Going!
1945
Walk East on Beacon
1952
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953
Thunder Rock
1942
Francis of Assisi
1961
Abandon Ship
1957
Joseph and His Brethren
1961
Saint Joan
1957
Third Party Risk
1954
The Mudlark
1950
Captain Lightfoot
1955
My Daughter Joy
1950
The Little Hut
1957
Rome Express
1932
The Angel Wore Red
1960
The Inspector
1962
Kangaroo
1952
The Bells Go Down
1943
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948
Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953
Undercover
1943
Make Me an Offer!
1954
Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948
Hand in Hand
1961
Mister Cinders
1935
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948
Princess Charming
1934
Clue of the Silver Key
1961
Who Was Maddox?
1964
Little Friend
1934
Warn That Man
1943
The Good Companions
1933
49th Parallel
1941
Heat Wave
1935
My Brother Jonathan
1948
King's Rhapsody
1955
No Funny Business
1933
The Monkey's Paw
1948
Tempest
1958
Dangerous Exile
1957
Glamorous Night
1937
The Day Will Dawn
1942
The Black Rose
1950
Zarak Khan
1956
Gay Love
1934
Brigadoon
1966
Paradise for Two
1937
Alice in Wonderland
1966
Crook's Tour
1940
Command Performance
1937
The Old Man
1931
The Frightened Lady
1932
Trio
1950
West 11
1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963
The Naked Earth
1958
Campbell's Kingdom
1957
Orders Is Orders
1933
The Cracksman
1963
The End of the Road
1954
The Shipbuilders
1943
The Amorous Prawn
1962
Go to Blazes
1962
Cleopatra
1963
Wanted!
1937
They Met in the Dark
1943
Spring Song
1946
Theatre Royal
1943
Rockets Galore
1958
Five Golden Hours
1961
Vendetta for The Saint
1969
Whisky Galore!
1949
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