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Finlay Currie

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Interprétation
Naissance
19 janvier 1878 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Décès
9 mai 1968

Biographie

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Finlay Currie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Connu pour

Affiche de Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur
Film · 1959 · ★ 7,9
Affiche de Cléopâtre
Cléopâtre
Film · 1963 · ★ 7,1
Affiche de Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
Film · 1956 · ★ 6,7
Affiche de Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis
Film · 1951 · ★ 7,1
Affiche de Les Grandes Espérances
Les Grandes Espérances
Film · 1946 · ★ 7,3
Affiche de L'Île au trésor
L'Île au trésor
Film · 1950 · ★ 6,5
Affiche de La Chute de l'Empire romain
La Chute de l'Empire romain
Film · 1964 · ★ 6,5
Affiche de Bunny Lake a disparu
Bunny Lake a disparu
Film · 1965 · ★ 7,3
Affiche de Le Prisonnier
Le Prisonnier
Série · 1967 · ★ 7,7
Affiche de Ivanhoé
Ivanhoé
Film · 1952 · ★ 6,8
Affiche de Meurtre au galop
Meurtre au galop
Film · 1963 · ★ 7,1
Affiche de Je sais où je vais
Je sais où je vais
Film · 1945 · ★ 7,1

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