Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 06, 1926
Died
Jan 30, 2016
Place of Birth
Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
Credits
140 titles
Frank Finlay
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Alexander 'Alex' Combe
Merlin
Anhora
The Waiting Room
Roger
Johnny and the Bomb
Tom Maxwell
Lighthouse Hill
Alfred
Life Begins
Eric Thornhill
The Statement
Commissaire Vionnet
Eroica
Josef Haydn
The Lost Prince
Asquith
The Pianist
Father
Station Jim
Riorden Snr
The Martins
Mr Heath
The Sins
Uncle Irwin Green
For My Baby
Rudi Wittfogel
Longitude
Admiral Wagner
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
General Bulstrode
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Father
Stiff Upper Lips
Hudson Junior
How Do You Want Me?
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Mike's Dad
The Grand
Edward Lawrence
Limited Edition
John Rathbone
Virgin Mary
Monsignor
A Mind to Murder
Professor Etherege
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Professor Coram / Sergius
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Alcuin
Sparrow
Father Nunzio
The Voyeur
Nino Rolfe
An Exchange of Fire
Pavel Rhele
Stalin
Sergei
The Other Side
Arthur Conan Doyle
Heartbeat
Howard Franklin
Cthulhu Mansion
Chandu
Mountain of Diamonds
Garrick
Mountain of Diamonds
Garrick
Prime Suspect
Arnold Tennison
The Burning Shore
Garrick
King of the Wind
Edward Coke
The Return of the Musketeers
Porthos
Erebus: The Aftermath
Justice Peter Mahon
Casanova
Razetta
Lovejoy
Harold Plumb
Nineteen Nineteen
Sigmund Freud (voice)
Lifeforce
Dr. Hans Fallada
In the Secret State
Frank Strange
Screen Two
Frank Strange
The Making Of Lifeforce
Self
Arch of Triumph
Col. Boris Morosov