Finlay Currie
Gender: Male
Born: 20th January 1878
Died: 9th May 1968
Nationality: Scotland
TV programs: United!
Movies: Great Expectations, I Know Where I'm Going!, People Will Talk, Quo Vadis, The Edge of the World, The Mudlark, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Ivanhoe, Saint Joan, Corridors of Blood, The Brothers, Forty-Ninth Parallel, Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue, Treasure Island, King's Rhapsody, The History of Mr. Polly, The Story of Joseph and His Brethren, Billy Liar, Solomon and Sheba, Stars and Stripes Forever, The Inspector, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Three Lives of Thomasina, Around the World in Eighty Days, Ben-Hur, Five Golden Hours, Francis of Assisi, Murder at the Gallop, Hand in Hand, Bunny Lake Is Missing, The Black Rose, Vendetta for the Saint, The Angel Wore Red, Dangerous Exile, Don Chicago, The Cracksman, The Shipbuilders, The Big Splash, Third Party Risk, Treasure of the Golden Condor, Alice in Wonderland
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television.
Currie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1878. His 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). 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
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