Finlay Currie
- Birthday
- Jan 20, 1878
- Birthplace
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Bio: Scottish actor Finlay Currie's pre-theatrical occupations included choirmaster and organist. He entered show business at the turn of the century as a musical performer, billed as "Harry Calvo, the double-voiced vocalist." For ten years, Currie toured Australia as principal comedian in Sir Benjamin Fuller's acting troupe. He returned to the London stage in 1930,… More Bio: Scottish actor Finlay Currie's pre-theatrical occupations included choirmaster and organist. He entered show business at the turn of the century as a musical performer, billed as "Harry Calvo, the double-voiced vocalist." For ten years, Currie toured Australia as principal comedian in Sir Benjamin Fuller's acting troupe. He returned to the London stage in 1930, where over the next three decades he would appear in such hits as The Last Mile and Death of a Salesman. In films from 1932, Currie's most memorable screen role was as the surly convict Magwitch in Great Expectations (1946). He spent much of the early 1950s in Hollywood, playing such forceful character roles as St. Peter in Quo Vadis (1951) and the mysterious Mr. Shunderson in People Will Talk (1951). Still in harness into the mid-1960s, Finlay Currie was at one juncture the oldest working actor in Great Britain. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Finlay Currie Videos
Cleopatra
Ivanhoe
The Fall Of The Roman Empire
Francis Of Assisi
Joseph And His Brethren
Filmography
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Vendetta for the Saint (1968)
- Don Pasquale
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
- Doll-maker
- 90%
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
- Senator
- 100%
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The Three Lives of Thomasina (1963)
- Hughie's grandfather
- 60%
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Murder at the Gallop (1963)
- Old Enderby
- 100%
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