

Finlay Currie
1878 — 1968 Age: 90 years oldinfo
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.
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Sunday, January 20, 1878, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Thursday, May 9, 1968
Male
Works 99
1945
I Know Where I'm Going!Ruairidh Mhór
1946
Great ExpectationsAbel Magwitch
1950
Treasure IslandCapt. Billy Bones
1951
Quo VadisPeter
1952
IvanhoeCedric
1956
Around the World in 80 DaysWhist Partner
1957
Saint JoanArchbishop of Rheims
1959
Ben-HurBalthasar
1959
Solomon and ShebaDavid
1963
CleopatraTitus
1963
The Three Lives of ThomasinaGrandpa Stirling
1963
Murder at the GallopOld Enderby
1963
Billy LiarDuxbury
1964
The Fall of the Roman EmpireSenator
1965
Bunny Lake Is MissingThe doll maker
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