Finlay Currie
1878-01-19 ( 147 years old ) in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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.

Movies

Vendetta for The Saint 1969-01-05
Alice in Wonderland 1966-12-28
Brigadoon 1966-10-15
Bunny Lake Is Missing 1965-10-03
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 1965-05-26
Who Was Maddox? 1964-06-01
The Fall of the Roman Empire 1964-03-24
The Three Lives of Thomasina 1963-12-11
West 11 1963-10-08
Billy Liar 1963-08-15
Murder at the Gallop 1963-06-24
Cleopatra 1963-06-12
The Cracksman 1963-01-01
The Amorous Prawn 1962-11-26
The Inspector 1962-05-24
Go to Blazes 1962-04-18
Joseph and His Brethren 1961-08-23
Clue of the Silver Key 1961-08-01
Francis of Assisi 1961-07-12
Hand in Hand 1961-02-06
Five Golden Hours 1961-02-01
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1960-07-21
The Angel Wore Red 1960-04-14
Kidnapped 1960-02-24
Solomon and Sheba 1959-12-18
Ben-Hur 1959-11-18
Corridors of Blood 1958-12-01
Tempest 1958-12-01
Rockets Galore 1958-10-19
6.5 Special 1958-03-01
The Naked Earth 1958-02-05
Dangerous Exile 1957-12-12
Campbell's Kingdom 1957-09-03
Saint Joan 1957-05-08
The Little Hut 1957-05-03
Abandon Ship 1957-03-12
Zarak 1956-12-01
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956-10-17
Footsteps in the Fog 1955-09-14
King's Rhapsody 1955-06-07
Captain Lightfoot 1955-03-26
Make Me an Offer! 1954-12-08
Third Party Risk 1954-10-08
The End of the Road 1954-01-01
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue 1953-10-26
Treasure of the Golden Condor 1953-02-04
Stars and Stripes Forever 1952-12-22
Ivanhoe 1952-07-31
Walk East on Beacon 1952-06-01
Kangaroo 1952-05-16
Quo Vadis 1951-11-08
People Will Talk 1951-08-29
Trio 1950-10-10
The Mudlark 1950-10-03
The Black Rose 1950-09-01
My Daughter Joy 1950-08-21
Treasure Island 1950-07-19
The History of Mr. Polly 1949-02-08
Bonnie Prince Charlie 1948-10-26
Sleeping Car to Trieste 1948-10-06
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill 1948-09-27
So Evil My Love 1948-08-02
The Monkey's Paw 1948-02-18
My Brother Jonathan 1948-02-05
The Brothers 1947-05-07
Great Expectations 1946-12-26
School for Secrets 1946-12-23
Spring Song 1946-12-23
The Trojan Brothers 1946-02-04
In the Zone 1946-01-02
I Know Where I'm Going! 1945-11-16
Don Chicago 1945-08-06
The Shipbuilders 1943-12-15
They Met in the Dark 1943-08-11
Undercover 1943-07-26
Theatre Royal 1943-07-26
Warn That Man 1943-07-13
The Bells Go Down 1943-05-16
Thunder Rock 1942-12-04
The Day Will Dawn 1942-06-08
49th Parallel 1941-11-24
Crook's Tour 1940-09-03
The Claydon Treasure Mystery 1938-09-04
Paradise for Two 1937-12-22
The Edge of the World 1937-09-10
Wanted! 1937-08-23
Command Performance 1937-08-19
Catch as Catch Can 1937-07-01
Glamorous Night 1937-04-28
The Improper Duchess 1936-01-17
Me and Marlborough 1935-07-22
Heat Wave 1935-05-30
The Big Splash 1935-01-01
Little Friend 1934-11-18
My Old Dutch 1934-10-01
Gay Love 1934-09-01
It's a Boy 1934-06-07
Princess Charming 1934-04-24
Mister Cinders 1934-01-01
Orders Is Orders 1933-07-18
No Funny Business 1933-03-30
Excess Baggage 1933-03-24
The Good Companions 1933-02-28
Rome Express 1932-10-31
The Frightened Lady 1932-03-01
The Old Man 1931-12-15

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