1878-01-20 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Finlay Currie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Brigadoon | Mr. Lundie | 1966-10-15 |
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Alice in Wonderland | Dodo | 1966-12-26 |
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | Emcee | 1965-05-26 |
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Bunny Lake Is Missing | The Doll Maker | 1965-10-03 |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire | Senator | 1964-03-24 |
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Who Was Maddox? | 1964-06-01 | |
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Cleopatra | Titus | 1963-06-12 |
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The Three Lives of Thomasina | Grandpa Stirling | 1963-12-11 |
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West 11 | Gash | 1963-10-08 |
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Billy Liar | Duxbury | 1963-08-15 |
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The Cracksman | Feathers | 1963-01-01 |
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Murder at the Gallop | Old Enderby | 1963-06-24 |
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The Amorous Prawn | Lochaye | 1962-11-26 |
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The Inspector | De Kool | 1962-05-24 |
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Go to Blazes | Judge | 1962-04-18 |
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Clue of the Silver Key | 1961-08-01 | |
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Hand in Hand | Mr. Pritchard | 1961-02-06 |
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Francis of Assisi | The Pope | 1961-07-12 |
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Five Golden Hours | Father Superior | 1961-02-01 |
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Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli | Jacob | 1961-08-23 |
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The Angel Wore Red | Bishop | 1960-04-14 |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Captain Sellers | 1960-07-21 |
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Solomon and Sheba | David | 1959-12-25 |
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Kidnapped | Cluny MacPherson | 1959-12-07 |
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Ben-Hur | Balthasar | 1959-11-18 |
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6.5 Special | 1958-03-01 | |
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Corridors of Blood | Supt. Charles Matheson | 1958-12-01 |
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La tempesta | Count Grinov | 1958-12-01 |
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The Naked Earth | Father Verity | 1958-02-05 |
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Rockets Galore | Narrator (uncredited) | 1958-12-26 |
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Abandon Ship | Mr. Wheaton | 1957-03-12 |
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The Little Hut | The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett | 1957-05-03 |
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Dangerous Exile | Mr. Patient | 1957-12-12 |
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Saint Joan | Archbishop of Rheims | 1957-05-08 |
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Campbell's Kingdom | Old Man | 1957-09-03 |
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Zarak | The Mullah | 1956-12-01 |
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Around the World in Eighty Days | Whist Partner | 1956-10-17 |
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King's Rhapsody | King Paul | 1955-06-07 |
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Footsteps in the Fog | Inspector Peters | 1955-09-14 |
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Captain Lightfoot | Callahan | 1955-03-26 |
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Third Party Risk | Mr. Darius | 1954-10-08 |
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Make Me an Offer! | Abe Sparta | 1954-12-08 |
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The End of the Road | Old 'Mick-Mack' | 1954-01-01 |
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue | Hamish MacPherson | 1954-02-27 |
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Treasure of the Golden Condor | MacDougal | 1953-02-04 |
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Ivanhoe | Cedric | 1952-07-31 |
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Walk East on Beacon! | Professor Albert Kafer | 1952-06-01 |
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Stars and Stripes Forever | Col. Randolph | 1952-01-01 |
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Kangaroo | Michael McGuire | 1952-05-16 |
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Quo Vadis | Peter | 1951-11-08 |
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People Will Talk | Shunderson | 1951-08-29 |
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Trio | Mr. McLeod | 1950-10-10 |
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The Mudlark | John Brown | 1950-10-03 |
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The Black Rose | Alfgar | 1950-09-01 |
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Treasure Island | Capt. Billy Bones | 1950-07-19 |
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My Daughter Joy | Sir Thomas McTavish | 1950-08-21 |
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The History of Mr. Polly | Uncle Jim | 1949-02-08 |
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My Brother Jonathan | Dr. Hammond | 1948-02-05 |
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Bonnie Prince Charlie | Marquis of Tullibardine | 1948-10-25 |
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So Evil My Love | Dr. Krylie | 1948-08-02 |
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Sir Joshua Varley | 1948-09-27 |
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Sleeping Car To Trieste | Alastair McBain | 1948-10-06 |
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The Brothers | Hector Macrae | 1947-05-07 |
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Spring Song | Cobb | 1946-12-23 |
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Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 1946-12-26 |
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School for Secrets | Sir Duncan Wills | 1946-12-23 |
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In the Zone | 1946-01-02 | |
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The Trojan Brothers | W.H. Maxwell | 1946-02-04 |
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Don Chicago | Bugs Mulligan | 1945-08-06 |
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I Know Where I'm Going! | Ruairidh Mhór | 1945-11-16 |
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The Bells Go Down | District Officer McFarlane | 1943-05-16 |
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The Shipbuilders | McWain | 1943-12-15 |
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Theatre Royal | Clement J. Earle | 1943-07-26 |
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They Met in the Dark | Merchant Captain | 1943-08-11 |
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Warn That Man | Captain Andrew Fletcher | 1943-07-13 |
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Thunder Rock | Capt. Joshua Stuart | 1942-12-04 |
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The Day Will Dawn | Capt. Alstad | 1942-06-08 |
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49th Parallel | The Factor | 1941-11-24 |
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Crook's Tour | Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited) | 1940-09-03 |
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery | Rubin | 1938-09-04 |
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Catch as Catch Can | Al Parsons | 1937-07-01 |
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Command Performance | Al, Arthur's Manager | 1937-01-01 |
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Paradise for Two | Creditor | 1937-12-22 |
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Wanted! | Uncle Mart | 1937-08-23 |
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The Edge of the World | James Gray | 1937-09-10 |
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Glamorous Night | Angus MacKintosh | 1937-04-28 |
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The Improper Duchess | Milton Lee | 1936-01-17 |
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Heat Wave | Captain | 1935-05-30 |
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The Big Splash | Hartley Bassett | 1935-01-01 |
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Little Friend | Grove | 1934-11-18 |
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Mister Cinders | Henry Kemp | 1934-01-01 |
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Gay Love | Highams | 1934-09-01 |
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My Old Dutch | Mo | 1934-10-01 |
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Princess Charming | Baron Seegman | 1934-04-24 |
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The Good Companions | Monte Mortimer | 1933-02-28 |
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Orders Is Orders | Dave | 1933-07-18 |
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Rome Express | Sam, Publicist | 1932-10-31 |
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The Frightened Lady | Brooks | 1932-03-01 |
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The Old Man | Rennett | 1931-12-31 |
