Finlay Currie
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1878-01-19
Day of Death
1968-05-09 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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 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
(1969)
Vendetta for The Saint
as Don Pasquale
(1966)
Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
(1966)
Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
(1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing
as The Doll Maker
(1965)
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee
(1964)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
(1964)
(1963)
Cleopatra
as Titus
(1963)
Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
(1963)
Billy Liar
as Duxbury
(1963)
The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
(1963)
West 11
as Gash
(1963)
The Cracksman
as Feathers
(1962)
The Inspector
as De Kool
(1962)
Go to Blazes
as Judge
(1962)
The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye
(1961)
Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob
(1961)
Francis of Assisi
as The Pope
(1961)
Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
(1961)
Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior
(1961)
Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane
(1960)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
(1960)
Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
(1960)
The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop
(1959)
Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
(1959)
Solomon and Sheba
as David
(1958)
Tempest
as Count Grinov
(1958)
Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
(1958)
6.5 Special
as Himself
(1958)
Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)
(1958)
The Naked Earth
as Father Verity
(1957)
Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
(1957)
Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
(1957)
The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
(1957)
Abandon Ship
as Mr. Wheaton
(1957)
Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
(1956)
Around the World in Eighty Days
as Whist Partner
(1956)
Zarak
as The Mullah
(1955)
Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
(1955)
Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan
(1955)
King's Rhapsody
as King Paul
(1954)
Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius
(1954)
Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta
(1954)
The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
(1953)
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson
(1953)
Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal
(1952)
Ivanhoe
as Cedric
(1952)
Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
(1952)
Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer
(1952)
Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph
(1951)
Quo Vadis
as Peter
(1951)
People Will Talk
as Shunderson
(1950)
Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
(1950)
The Black Rose
as Alfgar
(1950)
The Mudlark
as John Brown
(1950)
Trio
as Mr. McLeod
(1950)
My Daughter Joy
as Sir Thomas McTavish
(1949)
Whisky Galore!
as Narrator
(1949)
The History of Mr. Polly
as Uncle Jim
(1948)
Bonnie Prince Charlie
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
(1948)
My Brother Jonathan
as Dr. Hammond
(1948)
So Evil My Love
as Dr. Krylie
(1948)
Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Alastair McBain
(1948)
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Sir Joshua Varley
(1948)
The Monkey's Paw
as Sergeant-Major Morris
(1947)
The Brothers
as Hector Macrae
(1947)
Woman to Woman
as Theatre Manager
(1946)
Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
(1946)
School for Secrets
as Sir Duncan Wills
(1946)
The Trojan Brothers
as W.H. Maxwell
(1946)
(1946)
Spring Song
as Cobb
(1945)
I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
(1945)
Don Chicago
as Bugs Mulligan
(1943)
Undercover
as Priest (uncredited)
(1943)
The Bells Go Down
as District Officer McFarlane
(1943)
Warn That Man
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
(1943)
They Met in the Dark
as Merchant Captain
(1943)
The Shipbuilders
as McWain
(1943)
Theatre Royal
as Clement J. Earle
(1942)
The Day Will Dawn
as Capt. Alstad
(1942)
Thunder Rock
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
(1941)
49th Parallel
as The Factor
(1940)
Crook's Tour
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
(1938)
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
as Rubin
(1937)
Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh
(1937)
The Edge of the World
as James Gray
(1937)
Paradise for Two
as Creditor
(1937)
Command Performance
as Al, Arthur's Manager
(1937)
Wanted!
as Uncle Mart
(1937)
Catch as Catch Can
as Al Parson
(1936)
The Improper Duchess
as Milton Lee
(1936)
The Gay Adventure
as Porter
(1935)
Me and Marlborough
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
(1935)
Heat Wave
as Captain
(1935)
Mister Cinders
as Henry Kemp
(1935)
The Big Splash
as Hartley Bassett
(1934)
Princess Charming
as Baron Seegman
(1934)
It's a Boy
as Publisher
(1934)
Little Friend
as Grove
(1934)
Gay Love
as Highams
(1934)
My Old Dutch
as Mo
(1933)
Orders Is Orders
as Dave
(1933)
The Good Companions
as Monte Mortimer
(1933)
No Funny Business
as Mr Potterton
(1933)
Excess Baggage
as inspector Toucan
(1932)
Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
(1932)
The Frightened Lady
as Brooks
(1931)
The Old Man
as Rennett