Finlay Currie

About

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...

Known for

The SaintSeries • 1962Danger ManSeries • 1960The PrisonerSeries • 1967Ben-HurMovie • 1959Gideon's WaySeries • 1965CleopatraMovie • 1963The Count of Monte CristoSeries • 1956Around the World in 80 DaysMovie • 1956Treasure IslandMovie • 1950Quo VadisMovie • 1951The Fall of the Roman EmpireMovie • 1964Great ExpectationsMovie • 1946Murder at the GallopMovie • 1963IvanhoeMovie • 1952Solomon and ShebaMovie • 1959Bunny Lake Is MissingMovie • 196549th ParallelMovie • 1941The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMovie • 1960Whisky Galore!Movie • 1949Seven Waves AwayMovie • 1957I Know Where I'm Going!Movie • 1945Billy LiarMovie • 1963The Black RoseMovie • 1950Footsteps in the FogMovie • 1955