Frank Finlay actor
- All known tv series 32
- Total known movies 91
Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement.His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway.He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.
Father
Movie 2002
Chandu
Movie 1992
Nino Rolfe
Movie 1983
Dearth
Movie 1981
George Dabernon
Movie 1972
Father Nunzio
Movie 1983
Albert
Movie 1969
Frank Strange
Movie 1985
Captain Manson
Movie 1982
H.W. Manfred
Movie 1966
Father
Movie 1999
Mike's Dad
Movie 1997
John Rathbone
Movie 1997
Professor Etherege
Movie 1995
Frank Doel
Movie 1975
Alfred
Movie 2004
Kravtsov
Movie 1984
Arthur Conan Doyle
Movie 1992
Dogberry
Movie 1967
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
Movie 1962
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Movie 1973
Franco Angelo
Movie 1962
Adolf Hitler
Movie 1973
Wilfred Tilley
Movie 1969
Movie 1972
Shylock
Movie 1972
Brutus
Movie 1969
Nino Rolfe
Movie 1994
Napoleon
Movie 1978
Riorden Snr
Movie 2001
Narrator
Movie 1983
Council foreman
Movie 1967
Narrator
Movie 1970
Sigmund Freud (voice)
Movie 1985
Sancho Panza
Movie 1973
Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Movie 1962
Movie 2015
Teddy's Father
Movie 1962
Capt. Patterson
Movie 1962
Pavel Rhele
Movie 1993
(archive footage)
Movie 1965
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2018
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Movie 1974
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Movie 1975
Tv 1998
Tv 1962
Arthur Pearson
Tv 1979
Arnold Tennison
Tv 1991
Howard Franklin
Tv 1992
Professor Coram / Sergius
Tv 1984
Harold Plumb
Tv 1986
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Tv 1983
Tv 1970
Peter Manson
Tv 1976
Self
Tv 1982
Marcus Brutus
Tv 1965
Professor Van Helsing
Tv 1977
Fernand Destayac
Tv 1962
Alexander 'Alex' Combe
Tv 2008
Tv 1977
Jean Valjean
Tv 1967
Tom Maxwell
Tv 2006
Sancho Panza
Tv 1965
Voltaire
Tv 1965
Peppino
Tv 1976
Alcuin
Tv 1994
Asquith
Tv 2003
Anhora
Tv 2008
Conway Henderson
Tv 1960
Dearth
Tv 1970
