
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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