Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television.Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Curries 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 Leans 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 Taylors embittered father in MGMs 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. Cronins novel, Shannons Way. Curries 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.
Old Enderby
Film 1963
Mo
Film 1934
Milton Lee
Film 1936
Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
Film 1935
Col. Randolph
Film 1952
James Gray
Film 1937
Himself
Film 1958
Hector Macrae
Film 1947
Dr. Krylie
Film 1948
Professor Albert Kafer
Film 1952
Hamish MacPherson
Film 1953
Capt. Joshua Stuart
Film 1942
The Pope
Film 1961
Mr. Darius
Film 1954
John Brown
Film 1950
Callahan
Film 1955
Sir Thomas McTavish
Film 1950
The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
Film 1957
Sam, Publicist
Film 1932
Bishop
Film 1960
De Kool
Film 1962
Michael McGuire
Film 1952
District Officer McFarlane
Film 1943
Sir Joshua Varley
Film 1948
MacDougal
Film 1953
Priest (uncredited)
Film 1943
Abe Sparta
Film 1954
The Marquis of Tullibardine
Film 1948
Mr. Pritchard
Film 1961
Film 1946
Henry Kemp
Film 1934
Baron Seegman
Film 1934
Film 1961
Film 1964
Grove
Film 1934
Captain Andrew Fletcher
Film 1943
Monte Mortimer
Film 1933
Captain
Film 1935
Dr. Hammond
Film 1948
King Paul
Film 1955
inspector Toucan
Film 1933
Mr Potterton
Film 1933
Sergeant-Major Morris
Film 1948
Mr. Patient
Film 1957
Angus MacKintosh
Film 1937
Highams
Film 1934
Hartley Bassett
Film 1935
Mr. Lundie
Film 1966
Creditor
Film 1937
Rubin
Film 1938
Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
Film 1940
Al, Arthur's Manager
Film 1937
Rennett
Film 1931
Brooks
Film 1932
Mr. McLeod
Film 1950
Grandpa Stirling
Film 1963
Father Verity
Film 1958
Hyper-religious Old Barfly
Film 1957
Feathers
Film 1963
Old 'Mick-Mack'
Film 1954
McWain
Film 1943
Lochaye
Film 1962
Judge
Film 1962
Uncle Mart
Film 1937
W.H. Maxwell
Film 1946
Merchant Captain
Film 1943
Al Parson
Film 1937
Cobb
Film 1946
Bugs Mulligan
Film 1945
Clement J. Earle
Film 1943
Narrator (uncredited)
Film 1958
Father Superior
Film 1961
Publisher
Film 1934
Tv 1956
Tv 1965
Tv 1967
Don Pasquale
Tv 1962