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
Film 2002
Chandu
Film 1992
Nino Rolfe
Film 1983
Dearth
Film 1981
George Dabernon
Film 1972
Father Nunzio
Film 1983
Albert
Film 1969
Frank Strange
Film 1985
Captain Manson
Film 1982
H.W. Manfred
Film 1966
Father
Film 1999
Mike's Dad
Film 1997
John Rathbone
Film 1997
Professor Etherege
Film 1995
Frank Doel
Film 1975
Alfred
Film 2004
Kravtsov
Film 1984
Arthur Conan Doyle
Film 1992
Dogberry
Film 1967
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
Film 1962
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Film 1973
Franco Angelo
Film 1962
Adolf Hitler
Film 1973
Wilfred Tilley
Film 1969
Film 1972
Shylock
Film 1972
Brutus
Film 1969
Nino Rolfe
Film 1994
Napoleon
Film 1978
Riorden Snr
Film 2001
Narrator
Film 1983
Council foreman
Film 1967
Narrator
Film 1970
Sigmund Freud (voice)
Film 1985
Sancho Panza
Film 1973
Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Film 1962
Film 2015
Teddy's Father
Film 1962
Capt. Patterson
Film 1962
Pavel Rhele
Film 1993
(archive footage)
Film 1965
Self (archive footage)
Film 2018
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Film 1974
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Film 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