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Finlay Currie

Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie
Born: Jan 20, 1878 in Edinburgh, Scotland
Died: May 09, 1968 in Gerrards Cross, England
Occupation: Actor
Active: '30s-'60s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Footsteps in the Fog, Thunder Rock, Great Expectations
First Major Screen Credit: Orders Is Orders (1934)
9 Videos for Finlay Currie
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Joseph and His Brethren (1960) Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Cleopatra (1963) Ben-Hur (1959) Ivanhoe (1952)
Francis of Assisi (1961) Corridors of Blood (1959) Quo Vadis? (1951)
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Biography:

Scottish actor Finlay Currie's pre-theatrical occupations included choirmaster and organist. He entered show business at the turn of the century as a musical performer, billed as Harry Calvo, the double-voiced vocalist. For ten years, Currie toured Australia as principal comedian in Sir Benjamin Fuller's acting troupe.

He returned to the London stage in 1930, where over the next three decades he would appear in such hits as The Last Mile and Death of a Salesman. In films from 1932, Currie's most memorable screen role was as the surly convict Magwitch in Great Expectations (1946). He spent much of the early 1950s in Hollywood, playing such forceful character roles as St.

Peter in Quo Vadis (1951) and the mysterious Mr. Shunderson in People Will Talk (1951). Still in harness into the mid-1960s, Finlay Currie was at one juncture the oldest working actor in Great Britain. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.