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Finlay Currie

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Nascita
19 gennaio 1878 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Morte
9 maggio 1968

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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.

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Locandina di Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur
Film · 1959 · ★ 7,9
Locandina di Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Film · 1963 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni
Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni
Film · 1956 · ★ 6,7
Locandina di Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis
Film · 1951 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di Grandi speranze
Grandi speranze
Film · 1946 · ★ 7,3
Locandina di L'isola del tesoro
L'isola del tesoro
Film · 1950 · ★ 6,5
Locandina di La caduta dell'impero romano
La caduta dell'impero romano
Film · 1964 · ★ 6,5
Locandina di Bunny Lake è scomparsa
Bunny Lake è scomparsa
Film · 1965 · ★ 7,3
Locandina di Il prigioniero
Il prigioniero
Serie · 1967 · ★ 7,7
Locandina di Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe
Film · 1952 · ★ 6,8
Locandina di Assassinio al galoppatoio
Assassinio al galoppatoio
Film · 1963 · ★ 7,1
Locandina di So dove vado
So dove vado
Film · 1945 · ★ 7,1

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