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