Finlay Currie

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 18841959 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 multiOscar winning 1959 BenHur 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia