John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971). Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.

Filmography

• 2005Kingdom of Heaven — Patriarch of Jerusalem
• 2004Tomb of Terror — Bennett
• 1998Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord — Derek Jarvis
• 1996Darklands — David Keller
• 1996White Men Are Cracking Up — Detective Margrave
• 1994Lurking Fear — Bennett
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Count Sylvius
• 1992Beautiful Lies — George Orwell
• Love at First Sight — George
• Maigret
• Merlin of the Crystal Cave — Vortigern
• 1989La più bella del reame — Jeremy
• 1989Streets of Yesterday
• 1989The Voice — Miller
• 1989Unexplained Laughter — Finn
• South of the Border — Trevor
• The Play on One — Finn
• 1987Make and Break — Peter Davis
• Casualty — Graham Lester
• 1984Much Ado About Nothing — Don Pedro
• 1984Pop Pirates — Coastguard
• Sherlock Holmes — Count Sylvius
• The Bill
• The Odd Job Man — George Griffin
• 1983Power Game
• 1982Doctor Faustus — Adrian Leverkühn
• 1982Giro City — O'Mally
• Peter and Paul — Luke
• 1980Breaking Glass — Woods
• 1980Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
• Hammer House of Horror — David
• The Martian Chronicles — Christ
• 1979Henry IV Part 1 — King Henry IV
• 1979Henry IV Part 2 — King Henry IV
• 1979La Sabina — Michael
• 1978Death on the Nile — James Ferguson
• 1978Richard II — Henry Bolingbroke
• The BBC Television Shakespeare — Henry Bolingbroke, King Henry the Fourth
• 1977The Standard — Charbinsky
• Curro Jiménez — McCallaghan
• 1976El segundo poder — Juan de Sacramonte
• 1976Game of Seduction — Count Charles de Lapalmmes
• The New Avengers — Wallace
• 1974Diagnosis: Murder — Lomax
• 1973The Final Programme — Jerry Cornelius
• 1972Frenzy — Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
• 1972Lady Caroline Lamb — William Lamb
• 1971Macbeth — Macbeth
• 1971Sunday Bloody Sunday — Scotsman
• 1970The Horror of Frankenstein — Lt. Henry Becker
• 1970The Vampire Lovers — Carl Ebhardt
• Counterstrike — Simon King
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre — Steve
• Tom Grattan's War — Charlie
• BBC Play of the Month — Sir Edward Mortimer

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2014Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth' — Self (archive footage)
• 2001The Story of 'Frenzy' — Self
• The World of Hammer — Self (archive footage)
• 1978Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette — Self / James Ferguson
• 1973The Big Screen — Self
• 1972Polanski Meets Macbeth — Self