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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Finlay Currie Biography / Wiki
| Name | Finlay Currie |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1878-01-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 90 |
| Deathday | 1968-05-09 |
Finlay Currie Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The End of the Road | Old ‘Mick-Mack’ | 1954-01-01 | Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family…. |
| Walk East on Beacon! | Professor Albert Kafer | 1952-06-01 | An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston…. |
| Third Party Risk | Mr. Darius | 1954-10-08 | Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. B… |
| In the Zone | 1946-01-02 | Adaptation of the Eugene O’neill play…. | |
| The Big Splash | Hartley Bassett | 1935-01-01 | A millionaire hires a man to play his double…… |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Whist Partner | 1956-10-17 | Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve… |
| People Will Talk | Shunderson | 1951-08-29 | Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius’s unorthodo… |
| 6.5 Special | 1958-03-01 | A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the … | |
| Clue of the Silver Key | 1961-08-01 | The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man…. | |
| Who Was Maddox? | 1964-06-01 | A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher’s wife…. | |
| Warn That Man | Captain Andrew Fletcher | 1943-07-13 | At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a pl… |
| Catch as Catch Can | Al Parsons | 1937-07-01 | On board a luxury liner, young Barbara Standish attempts to smuggle stolen jewels from France to America… |
| Corridors of Blood | Supt. Charles Matheson | 1958-12-01 | An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel o… |
| Make Me an Offer! | Abe Sparta | 1954-12-08 | A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of othe… |
| The Brothers | Hector Macrae | 1947-05-07 | An orphan wrecks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited…. |
| The History of Mr. Polly | Uncle Jim | 1949-02-08 | Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is i… |
| I Know Where I’m Going! | Ruairidh Mhór | 1945-11-16 | Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclemen… |
| Kangaroo | Michael McGuire | 1952-05-16 | In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals … |
| Hand in Hand | Mr. Pritchard | 1961-02-06 | Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends “forever and ever and can’t be par… |
| Princess Charming | Baron Seegman | 1934-04-24 | Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which j… |
| Brigadoon | Mr. Lundie | 1966-10-15 | Every 100 years people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had by … |
| Command Performance | Al, Arthur’s Manager | 1937-01-01 | No overview found…. |
| The Naked Earth | Father Verity | 1958-02-05 | Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested w… |
| Orders Is Orders | Dave | 1933-07-18 | A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn’t… |
| The Shipbuilders | McWain | 1943-12-15 | A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the Briti… |
| Billy Liar | Duxbury | 1963-08-15 | A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him… |
| Stars and Stripes Forever | Col. Randolph | 1952-01-01 | Marine bandmaster John Philip Sousa (Clifton Webb) becomes famous for his marches and inspires the sousaphone…. |
| The Edge of the World | James Gray | 1937-09-10 | A way of life is dying on a Shetland island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland…. |
| Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue | Hamish MacPherson | 1954-02-27 | After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becom… |
| Thunder Rock | Capt. Joshua Stuart | 1942-12-04 | David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn’t cash his payc… |
| The Mudlark | John Brown | 1950-10-03 | It’s 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria…… |
| Captain Lightfoot | Callahan | 1955-03-26 | A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin. In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to s… |
| The Little Hut | The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett | 1957-05-03 | Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipw… |
| Treasure of the Golden Condor | MacDougal | 1953-02-04 | A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala…. |
| King’s Rhapsody | King Paul | 1955-06-07 | Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic fi… |
| Wanted! | Uncle Mart | 1937-08-23 | A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves ar… |
| Don Chicago | Bugs Mulligan | 1945-08-06 | Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangle… |
| Treasure Island | Capt. Billy Bones | 1950-07-19 | Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribb… |
| Quo Vadis | Peter | 1951-11-08 | Set against the back drop of Rome in crisis, General Marcus Vinicius returns to the city from the battle fields and falls in love with a Christian wom… |
| Footsteps in the Fog | Inspector Peters | 1955-09-14 | A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife…. |
| School for Secrets | Sir Duncan Wills | 1946-12-23 | Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of B… |
| My Daughter Joy | Sir Thomas McTavish | 1950-08-21 | A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik…. |
| The Bells Go Down | District Officer McFarlane | 1943-05-16 | Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London … |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | Marquis of Tullibardine | 1948-10-25 | The Pretender lands on Scottish shores and attempts to claim the crown…. |
| My Brother Jonathan | Dr. Hammond | 1948-02-05 | Jonathan Dakers’ early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work a… |
| Dangerous Exile | Mr. Patient | 1957-12-12 | Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Rich… |
| Zarak | The Mullah | 1956-12-01 | A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him…. |
| The Black Rose | Alfgar | 1950-09-01 | In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of … |
| The Improper Duchess | Milton Lee | 1936-01-17 | The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann…. |
| Bunny Lake Is Missing | The Doll Maker | 1965-10-03 | A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed…. |
| Ivanhoe | Cedric | 1952-07-31 | Sir Walter Scott’s classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of Kin… |
| Great Expectations | Abel Magwitch | 1946-12-26 | In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman…. |
| Solomon and Sheba | David | 1959-12-25 | Under the rule of King David, Israel is united and prosperous although surrounded by enemies including Egypt and its allies. The aging King David favo… |
| Kidnapped | Cluny MacPherson | 1959-12-07 | Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, … |
| Francis of Assisi | The Pope | 1961-07-12 | In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his… |
| The Angel Wore Red | Bishop | 1960-04-14 | A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer…. |
| Mister Cinders | Henry Kemp | 1934-01-01 | The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the ‘princess’ – in this case, an oi… |
| The Day Will Dawn | Capt. Alstad | 1942-06-08 | Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat … |
| The Claydon Treasure Mystery | Rubin | 1938-09-04 | “The Claydon Treasure Mystery” stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in inv… |
| West 11 | Gash | 1963-10-08 | Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description… |
| The Amorous Prawn | Lochaye | 1962-11-26 | While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in or… |
| The Trojan Brothers | W.H. Maxwell | 1946-02-04 | Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the ‘head’ dates a society lady while the ‘tail’ is unhappily married…. |
| Theatre Royal | Clement J. Earle | 1943-07-26 | The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will s… |
| Abandon Ship | Mr. Wheaton | 1957-03-12 | After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship’s officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over … |
| Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Sir Joshua Varley | 1948-09-27 | A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole…. |
| Sleeping Car To Trieste | Alastair McBain | 1948-10-06 | Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express…. |
| The Cracksman | Feathers | 1963-01-01 | Ernest Wright’s peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable as… |
| Five Golden Hours | Father Superior | 1961-02-01 | A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely barones… |
| Ben-Hur | Balthasar | 1959-11-18 | In 25 AD,Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of tr… |
| The Inspector | De Kool | 1962-05-24 | At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine…. |
| Gay Love | Highams | 1934-09-01 | Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other’s fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations … |
| The Old Man | Rennett | 1931-12-31 | A mystery film directed by H. Manning Haynes…. |
| The Frightened Lady | Brooks | 1932-03-01 | A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to … |
| The Three Lives of Thomasina | Grandpa Stirling | 1963-12-11 | Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet s… |
| Spring Song | Cobb | 1946-12-23 | The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911…. |
| Joseph and His Brethren | Jacob | 1961-08-23 | A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power – but shows forgiveness and compassion to his… |
| The Battle of the Villa Fiorita | Emcee | 1965-05-26 | Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother’s affair with an Italian concert pianist…. |
| Heat Wave | Captain | 1935-05-30 | Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical Sout… |
| Tempest | Count Grinov | 1958-12-01 | A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he c… |
| Glamorous Night | Angus MacKintosh | 1937-04-28 | Based on Ivor Novello’s hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator…. |
| My Old Dutch | Mo | 1934-10-01 | Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama – wi… |
| Murder at the Gallop | Old Enderby | 1963-06-24 | Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. … |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Captain Sellers | 1960-07-21 | From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi…. |
| The Fall of the Roman Empire | Senator | 1964-03-24 | In the year 180 AD Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has… |
| So Evil My Love | Dr. Krylie | 1948-08-02 | In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several mal… |
| Rome Express | Sam, Publicist | 1932-10-31 | The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome…. |
| 49th Parallel | The Factor | 1941-11-24 | In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada’s Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by com… |
| Paradise for Two | Creditor | 1937-12-22 | A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire’s girlfriend…. |
| Go to Blazes | Judge | 1962-04-18 | A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio… |
| Saint Joan | Archbishop of Rheims | 1957-05-08 | Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battle… |
| Little Friend | Grove | 1934-11-18 | A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents’ scandalous divorce case…. |
| The Good Companions | Monte Mortimer | 1933-02-28 | Film musical taken from JB Priestley’s novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos…. |
| Crook’s Tour | Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited) | 1940-09-03 | Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of G… |
| Campbell’s Kingdom | Old Man | 1957-09-03 | Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits “Campbell’s Kingdom” in the Canadian Rockies on the d… |
| Alice in Wonderland | Dodo | 1966-12-26 | Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, th… |
| They Met in the Dark | Merchant Captain | 1943-08-11 | A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court m… |
| Rockets Galore | Narrator (uncredited) | 1958-12-26 | The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world … |
| Trio | Mr. McLeod | 1950-10-10 | W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles…. |
| Cleopatra | Titus | 1963-06-12 | Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his g… |
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