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Finlay Currie

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Atuação
Nascimento
19 de janeiro de 1878 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Falecimento
9 de maio de 1968

Biografia

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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Pôster de Ben-Hur
Ben-Hur
Filme · 1959 · ★ 7,9
Pôster de Cleópatra
Cleópatra
Filme · 1963 · ★ 7,1
Pôster de A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias
A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias
Filme · 1956 · ★ 6,7
Pôster de Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis
Filme · 1951 · ★ 7,1
Pôster de Grandes Esperanças
Grandes Esperanças
Filme · 1946 · ★ 7,3
Pôster de A Ilha do Tesouro
A Ilha do Tesouro
Filme · 1950 · ★ 6,5
Pôster de A Queda do Império Romano
A Queda do Império Romano
Filme · 1964 · ★ 6,5
Pôster de Bunny Lake Desapareceu
Bunny Lake Desapareceu
Filme · 1965 · ★ 7,3
Pôster de The Prisoner
The Prisoner
Série · 1967 · ★ 7,7
Pôster de Ivanhoé, o Vingador do Rei
Ivanhoé, o Vingador do Rei
Filme · 1952 · ★ 6,8
Pôster de Sherlock de Saias
Sherlock de Saias
Filme · 1963 · ★ 7,1
Pôster de Sei Onde Fica o Paraíso
Sei Onde Fica o Paraíso
Filme · 1945 · ★ 7,1

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