Finlay Currie

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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Ben-Hur

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Cleopatra

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Around the World in Eighty Days

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Quo Vadis

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Great Expectations

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Treasure Island

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The Fall of the Roman Empire

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Bunny Lake Is Missing

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The Prisoner

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Ivanhoe

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Murder at the Gallop

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I Know Where I'm Going!

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The Saint

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Billy Liar

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49th Parallel

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Solomon and Sheba

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People Will Talk

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Corridors of Blood

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The Three Lives of Thomasina

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Footsteps in the Fog

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The Edge of the World

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Francis of Assisi

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Kidnapped

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Alice in Wonderland

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So Evil My Love

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Abandon Ship

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Saint Joan

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The Black Rose

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Rome Express

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Walk East on Beacon

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Thunder Rock

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Captain Lightfoot

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Campbell's Kingdom

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Crook's Tour

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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

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They Met in the Dark

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The Little Hut

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Trio

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West 11

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Stars and Stripes Forever

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The History of Mr. Polly

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Joseph and His Brethren

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The Angel Wore Red

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Sleeping Car to Trieste

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Go to Blazes

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The Brothers

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The Mudlark

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The Inspector

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Kangaroo

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The Bells Go Down

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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

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Hand in Hand

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Third Party Risk

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Tempest

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Treasure of the Golden Condor

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Undercover

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Warn That Man

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Zarak

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Rockets Galore

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Vendetta for the Saint

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

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My Brother Jonathan

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Dangerous Exile

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The Day Will Dawn

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The Cracksman

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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

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The Good Companions

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Brigadoon

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Gideon's Way

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The Count of Monte Cristo

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School for Secrets

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Make Me an Offer!

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The Amorous Prawn

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General Electric Theater

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Les Misérables

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Me and Marlborough

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Princess Charming

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Who Was Maddox?

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Little Friend

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King's Rhapsody

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Command Performance

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Spring Song

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Theatre Royal

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Clue of the Silver Key

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Glamorous Night

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Paradise for Two

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The End of the Road

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The Shipbuilders

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The Trojan Brothers

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Don Chicago

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Five Golden Hours

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My Old Dutch

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The Improper Duchess

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6.5 Special

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My Daughter Joy

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In the Zone

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Mister Cinders

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Heat Wave

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No Funny Business

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Excess Baggage

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The Monkey's Paw

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Gay Love

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The Big Splash

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The Claydon Treasure Mystery

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The Old Man

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The Frightened Lady

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The Naked Earth

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Orders Is Orders

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Wanted!

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Catch as Catch Can

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It's a Boy

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United!

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