Frank Finlay

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-08-06 (90 years old)

Deathday

2016-01-30

Place of Birth

Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK

Frank Finlay

Biography

Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; B...

Acting

2002

The Pianist

as Father

1973

Shaft in Africa

as Vincent Amafi

1979

1973

The Three Musketeers

as Porthos / O'Reilly

1982

Enigma

as Canarsky

1968

Inspector Clouseau

as Supt. Weaver

1978

The Wild Geese

as Fr. Geoghagen

1985

Lifeforce

as Dr. Hans Fallada

1970

Cromwell

as John Carter

2007

1979

Murder by Decree

as Inspector Lestrade

1971

Gumshoe

as William Ginley

1983

The Key

as Nino Rolfe

1992

2003

The Statement

as Commissaire Vionnet

1970

1981

Dear Brutus

as Dearth

1965

1972

1965

Othello

as Iago

1994

Sparrow

as Father Nunzio

1969

1985

In the Secret State

as Frank Strange

1982

Mona

as Captain Manson

1966

The Deadly Bees

as H.W. Manfred

1972

Sitting Target

as Marty Gold

1967

Robbery

as Robinson

1968

Twisted Nerve

as Henry Durnley

1967

The Jokers

as Harrassed Man

1971

Assault

as Det. Chief Supt. Velyan

1998

Stiff Upper Lips

as Hudson Junior

1984

Arch of Triumph

as Col. Boris Morosov

1997

Limited Edition

as John Rathbone

1995

A Mind to Murder

as Professor Etherege

1978

1990

King of the Wind

as Edward Coke

1983

The Ploughman's Lunch

as Matthew Fox

2000

For My Baby

as Rudi Wittfogel

1975

1977

Count Dracula

as Abraham van Helsing

2004

1984

Sakharov

as Kravtsov

1992

The Other Side

as Arthur Conan Doyle

1983

1967

1962

The Longest Day

as Pvt. Coke (uncredited)

1966

The Sandwich Man

as Second Fish Porter

1991

1970

The Lie

as Andrew Firth

1973

Van der Valk and the Rich

as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk

1987

Casanova

as Razetta

1962

The Hard Knock

as Franco Angelo

1968

1984

A Christmas Carol

as Jacob Marley

1973

1963

Doctor in Distress

as Corsetiere

1969

The Piano Tuner

as Wilfred Tilley

2003

Eroica

as Josef Haydn

1969

Julius Caesar

as Brutus

1994

The Voyeur

as Nino Rolfe

1978

Betzi

as Napoleon

1974

2001

Station Jim

as Riorden Snr

1983

1967

The Spare Tyres

as Council foreman

1970

The Body

as Narrator

1985

Nineteen Nineteen

as Sigmund Freud (voice)

1992

Stalin

as Sergei

2001

The Martins

as Mr Heath

1995

Virgin Mary

as Monsignor

1962

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

as Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)

1964

Hot Enough for June

as British Embassy Porter

1964

1962

Life for Ruth

as Teddy's Father

1962

Private Potter

as Capt. Patterson

1965

A Study in Terror

as Inspector Lestrade

1993

An Exchange of Fire

as Pavel Rhele

1965

Olivier Talks About Othello

as (archive footage)

2018

Nothing Like a Dame

as Self (archive footage)

1963

The Informers

as Leon Sale

1974

Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter

as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk

1975

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk

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