Finlay Currie
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1878-01-19 (90 years old)
Deathday
1968-05-09
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also known As
William Finlay Currie
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 Pete...
Acting
1959
as Balthasar
1963
as Old Enderby
1965
as The Doll Maker
1956
as Whist Partner
1958
as Supt. Charles Matheson
1951
as Shunderson
1950
as Capt. Billy Bones
1951
as Peter
1934
as Mo
1963
as Duxbury
1952
as Cedric
1936
as Milton Lee
1935
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
1946
as Abel Magwitch
1959
as David
1960
as Captain Sellers
1960
as Cluny MacPherson
1952
as Col. Randolph
1937
as James Gray
1955
as Inspector Peters
1958
as Himself
1947
as Hector Macrae
1964
as Senator
1948
as Dr. Krylie
1949
as Uncle Jim
1946
as Sir Duncan Wills
1945
as Ruairidh Mhór
1952
as Professor Albert Kafer
1953
as Hamish MacPherson
1942
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
1961
as The Pope
1957
as Mr. Wheaton
1961
as Jacob
1957
as Archbishop of Rheims
1954
as Mr. Darius
1950
as John Brown
1955
as Callahan
1950
as Sir Thomas McTavish
1957
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
1932
as Sam, Publicist
1960
as Bishop
1962
as De Kool
1952
as Michael McGuire
1943
as District Officer McFarlane
1965
as Emcee
1948
as Sir Joshua Varley
1953
as MacDougal
1943
as Priest (uncredited)
1954
as Abe Sparta
1948
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
1961
as Mr. Pritchard
1946
1935
as Henry Kemp
1948
as Alastair McBain
1934
as Baron Seegman
1961
as Harvey Lane
1964
1934
as Grove
1943
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
1933
as Monte Mortimer
1941
as The Factor
1935
as Captain
1948
as Dr. Hammond
1955
as King Paul
1933
as inspector Toucan
1933
as Mr Potterton
1948
as Sergeant-Major Morris
1958
as Count Grinov
1957
as Mr. Patient
1937
as Angus MacKintosh
1942
as Capt. Alstad
1950
as Alfgar
1956
as The Mullah
1934
as Highams
1935
as Hartley Bassett
1966
as Mr. Lundie
1937
as Creditor
1966
as Dodo
1938
as Rubin
1940
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
1937
as Al, Arthur's Manager
1931
as Rennett
1932
as Brooks
1950
as Mr. McLeod
1963
as Gash
1963
as Grandpa Stirling
1958
as Father Verity
1957
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
1933
as Dave
1963
as Feathers
1954
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
1943
as McWain
1962
as Lochaye
1962
as Judge
1963
as Titus
1937
as Uncle Mart
1946
as W.H. Maxwell
1943
as Merchant Captain
1937
as Al Parson
1946
as Cobb
1945
as Bugs Mulligan
1943
as Clement J. Earle
1958
as Narrator (uncredited)
1961
as Father Superior
1934
as Publisher
1969
as Don Pasquale
1947
as Theatre Manager
1936
as Porter
1949
as Narrator
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