🎬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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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	Alice in Wonderland (1966)	Dodo		6
2	Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)	Doll Maker	-	-
3	The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)	Senator		5
4	Murder at the Gallop (1963)	Old Enderby		7.5
5	West 11 (1963)	Gash	-	-
6	Cleopatra (1963)	Titus (uncredited)		7.8
7	Billy Liar (1963)	Duxbury		7
8	The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)	Grandpa Stirling		8
9	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)	Captain Sellers	-	-
10	Ben-Hur (1959)	Balthasar		7.7
11	Corridors of Blood (1958)	Supt. Charles Matheson		3
12	Saint Joan (1957)	Archbishop of Rheims	-	-
13	Around the World in 80 Days (1956)	Whist Partner		7.4
14	Footsteps in the Fog (1955)	Inspector Peters		3
15	Ivanhoe (1952)	Cedric		7.5
16	Walk East on Beacon (1952)	Professor Albert Kafer		2
17	Quo Vadis (1951)	Peter		4
18	People Will Talk (1951)	Shunderson		7.5
19	Treasure Island (1950)	Capt. Billy Bones		8.5
20	Whisky Galore! (1949)	Narrator		5.5
21	So Evil My Love (1948)	Dr. Krylie		3
22	Great Expectations (1946)	Abel Magwitch		6
23	I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)	Ruairidh Mhór		4
24	Thunder Rock (1942)	Capt. Joshua Stuart		4
25	49th Parallel (1941)	The Factor		4
26	Rome Express (1932)	Sam, Publicist		7