Finlay Currie
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
Movie
Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
1959
Movie
Cleopatra
as Titus (uncredited)
1963
Movie
Around the World in 80 Days
as Whist Partner
1956
Movie
Quo Vadis
as Peter
1951
Movie
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
1946
Movie
Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
1950
Movie
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
1964
Movie
Bunny Lake Is Missing
as Doll Maker
1965
TV
The Prisoner
as General
1967
Movie
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
1952
Movie
Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
1963
Movie
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
1945
Movie
Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
1949
TV
The Saint
as Don Pasquale
1962
Movie
Billy Liar
as Duxbury
1963
Movie
49th Parallel
as The Factor
1941
Movie
Solomon and Sheba
as David
1959
Movie
People Will Talk
as Shunderson
1951
Movie
Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
1958
Movie
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
1963
Movie
Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
1955
Movie
Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
1966
Movie
The Edge of the World
as James Gray
1937
Movie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
1960