Finlay Currie
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.
Ben-Hur
(Balthasar)
Murder at the Gallop
(Old Enderby)
Bunny Lake Is Missing
(The Doll Maker)
Around the World in Eighty Days
(Whist Partner)
Corridors of Blood
(Supt. Charles Matheson)
People Will Talk
(Shunderson)
Treasure Island
(Capt. Billy Bones)
Quo Vadis
(Peter)
My Old Dutch
(Mo)
Billy Liar
(Duxbury)
Ivanhoe
(Cedric)
The Improper Duchess
(Milton Lee)
Me and Marlborough
(Marriage Celebrant (uncredited))
Great Expectations
(Abel Magwitch)
Solomon and Sheba
(David)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Captain Sellers)
Kidnapped
(Cluny MacPherson)
Stars and Stripes Forever
(Col. Randolph)
The Edge of the World
(James Gray)
Footsteps in the Fog
(Inspector Peters)
6.5 Special
(Himself)
The Brothers
(Hector Macrae)
The Fall of the Roman Empire
(Senator)
So Evil My Love
(Dr. Krylie)
The History of Mr. Polly
(Uncle Jim)
School for Secrets
(Sir Duncan Wills)
I Know Where I'm Going!
(Ruairidh Mhór)
Walk East on Beacon
(Professor Albert Kafer)
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
(Hamish MacPherson)
Thunder Rock
(Capt. Joshua Stuart)
Francis of Assisi
(The Pope)
Abandon Ship
(Mr. Wheaton)
Joseph and His Brethren
(Jacob)
Saint Joan
(Archbishop of Rheims)
Third Party Risk
(Mr. Darius)
The Mudlark
(John Brown)
Captain Lightfoot
(Callahan)
My Daughter Joy
(Sir Thomas McTavish)
The Little Hut
(The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett)
Rome Express
(Sam, Publicist)
The Angel Wore Red
(Bishop)
The Inspector
(De Kool)
Kangaroo
(Michael McGuire)
The Bells Go Down
(District Officer McFarlane)
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
(Emcee)
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
(Sir Joshua Varley)
Treasure of the Golden Condor
(MacDougal)
Undercover
(Priest (uncredited))
Make Me an Offer!
(Abe Sparta)
Bonnie Prince Charlie
(The Marquis of Tullibardine)
Hand in Hand
(Mr. Pritchard)
In the Zone
Mister Cinders
(Henry Kemp)
Sleeping Car to Trieste
(Alastair McBain)
Princess Charming
(Baron Seegman)
Clue of the Silver Key
Who Was Maddox?
Little Friend
(Grove)
Warn That Man
(Captain Andrew Fletcher)
The Good Companions
(Monte Mortimer)
49th Parallel
(The Factor)
Heat Wave
(Captain)
My Brother Jonathan
(Dr. Hammond)
King's Rhapsody
(King Paul)
Excess Baggage
(inspector Toucan)
No Funny Business
(Mr Potterton)
The Monkey's Paw
(Sergeant-Major Morris)
Tempest
(Count Grinov)
Dangerous Exile
(Mr. Patient)
Glamorous Night
(Angus MacKintosh)
The Day Will Dawn
(Capt. Alstad)
The Black Rose
(Alfgar)
Zarak
(The Mullah)
Gay Love
(Highams)
The Big Splash
(Hartley Bassett)
Brigadoon
(Mr. Lundie)
Paradise for Two
(Creditor)
Alice in Wonderland
(Dodo)
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
(Rubin)
Crook's Tour
(Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited))
Command Performance
(Al, Arthur's Manager)
The Old Man
(Rennett)
The Frightened Lady
(Brooks)
Trio
(Mr. McLeod)
West 11
(Gash)
The Three Lives of Thomasina
(Grandpa Stirling)
The Naked Earth
(Father Verity)
Campbell's Kingdom
(Hyper-religious Old Barfly)
Orders Is Orders
(Dave)
The Cracksman
(Feathers)
The End of the Road
(Old 'Mick-Mack')
The Shipbuilders
(McWain)
The Amorous Prawn
(Lochaye)
Go to Blazes
(Judge)
Cleopatra
(Titus)
Wanted!
(Uncle Mart)
The Trojan Brothers
(W.H. Maxwell)
They Met in the Dark
(Merchant Captain)
Catch as Catch Can
(Al Parson)
Spring Song
(Cobb)
Don Chicago
(Bugs Mulligan)
Theatre Royal
(Clement J. Earle)
Rockets Galore
(Narrator (uncredited))
Five Golden Hours
(Father Superior)
The Prisoner
(General)
Gideon's Way
(General Sir Hector McGregor)
General Electric Theater
(MacMorriss)
The Count of Monte Cristo
United!
Les Misérables
The Saint
(Don Pasquale)