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.

Filmography

• 1969Vendetta for The Saint — Don Pasquale
• Les Misérables
• The Prisoner — General
• 1966Alice in Wonderland — Dodo
• 1966Brigadoon — Mr. Lundie
• 1965Bunny Lake Is Missing — Doll Maker
• Gideon's Way — General Sir Hector McGregor
• Knock on Any Door — Old Man
• 1965The Battle of the Villa Fiorita — Emcee
• 1964The Fall of the Roman Empire — Senator
• 1964Who Was Maddox? — Alex Campbell
• 1963Billy Liar — Duxbury
• 1963Cleopatra — Titus (uncredited)
• 1963Murder at the Gallop — Old Enderby
• 1963The Cracksman — Feathers
• 1963The Three Lives of Thomasina — Grandpa Stirling
• 1963West 11 — Gash
• 1962Go to Blazes — Judge
• Man of the World — Donald
• 1962The Amorous Prawn — Lochaye
• 1962The Inspector — De Kool
• The Saint — Don Pasquale
• 1961Clue of the Silver Key — Harvey Lane
• 1961Five Golden Hours — Father Superior
• 1961Francis of Assisi — The Pope
• 1961Hand in Hand — Mr. Pritchard
• 1961Joseph and His Brethren — Jacob
• Danger Man — 'Jock'
• 1960Kidnapped — Cluny MacPherson
• 1960The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Captain Sellers
• 1960The Angel Wore Red — Bishop
• 1959Ben-Hur — Balthasar
• 1959Solomon and Sheba — David
• 1958Corridors of Blood — Supt. Charles Matheson
• 1958Rockets Galore — Narrator (uncredited)
• 1958Tempest — Count Grinov
• 1958The Naked Earth — Father Verity
• 1957Campbell's Kingdom — Hyper-religious Old Barfly
• 1957Dangerous Exile — Mr. Patient
• 1957Saint Joan — Archbishop of Rheims
• 1957Seven Waves Away — Mr. Wheaton
• 1957The Little Hut — The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
• Armchair Theatre — Professor Syme
• 1956Around the World in 80 Days — Whist Partner
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• 1956Zarak — The Mullah
• 1955Captain Lightfoot — Callahan
• 1955Footsteps in the Fog — Inspector Peters
• 1955King's Rhapsody — King Paul
• 1954Make Me an Offer! — Abe Sparta
• 1954The End of the Road — Old 'Mick-Mack'
• 1954Third Party Risk — Mr. Darius
• General Electric Theater — MacMorriss
• 1953Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue — Hamish MacPherson
• 1953Treasure of the Golden Condor — MacDougal
• 1952Ivanhoe — Cedric
• 1952Kangaroo — Michael McGuire
• 1952Stars and Stripes Forever — Col. Randolph
• 1952Walk East on Beacon — Professor Albert Kafer
• 1951People Will Talk — Shunderson
• 1951Quo Vadis — Peter
• 1950My Daughter Joy — Sir Thomas McTavish
• 1950The Black Rose — Alfgar
• 1950The Mudlark — John Brown
• 1950Treasure Island — Capt. Billy Bones
• 1950Trio — Mr. McLeod
• 1949The History of Mr. Polly — Uncle Jim
• 1949Whisky Galore! — Narrator
• 1948Bonnie Prince Charlie — The Marquis of Tullibardine
• 1948Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill — Sir Joshua Varley
• 1948My Brother Jonathan — Dr. Hammond
• 1948Sleeping Car to Trieste — Alastair McBain
• 1948So Evil My Love — Dr. Krylie
• 1948The Monkey's Paw — Sergeant-Major Morris
• 1947The Brothers — Hector Macrae
• 1947Woman to Woman — Theatre Manager
• 1946Great Expectations — Abel Magwitch
• 1946In the Zone
• 1946School for Secrets — Sir Duncan Wills
• 1946Spring Song — Cobb
• 1946The Trojan Brothers — W.H. Maxwell
• 1945Don Chicago — Bugs Mulligan
• 1945I Know Where I'm Going! — Ruairidh Mhór
• 1943The Bells Go Down — District Officer McFarlane
• 1943The Shipbuilders — McWain
• 1943Theatre Royal — Clement J. Earle
• 1943They Met in the Dark — Merchant Captain
• 1943Undercover — Priest (uncredited)
• 1943Warn That Man — Captain Andrew Fletcher
• 1942The Day Will Dawn — Capt. Alstad
• 1942Thunder Rock — Capt. Joshua Stuart
• 194149th Parallel — The Factor
• 1940Crook's Tour — Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
• 1938The Claydon Treasure Mystery — Rubin
• 1937Catch as Catch Can — Al Parson
• 1937Command Performance — Al, Arthur's Manager
• 1937Glamorous Night — Angus MacKintosh
• 1937Paradise for Two — Creditor
• 1937The Edge of the World — James Gray
• 1937Wanted! — Uncle Mart
• 1936The Gay Adventure — Porter
• 1936The Improper Duchess — Milton Lee
• 1935Heat Wave — Captain
• 1935Me and Marlborough — Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
• 1935Mister Cinders — Henry Kemp
• 1935The Big Splash — Hartley Bassett
• 1934Gay Love — Highams
• 1934It's a Boy — Publisher
• 1934Little Friend — Grove
• 1934My Old Dutch — Mo
• 1934Princess Charming — Baron Seegman
• 1933Excess Baggage — inspector Toucan
• 1933No Funny Business — Mr Potterton
• 1933Orders Is Orders — Dave
• 1933The Good Companions — Monte Mortimer
• 1932Rome Express — Sam, Publicist
• 1932The Frightened Lady — Brooks
• 1931The Old Man — Rennett

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 19586.5 Special — Himself