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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.

Vendetta for The Saint
as Don Pasquale

Les Misérables

The Prisoner
as General

Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo

Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
United!

Bunny Lake Is Missing
as Doll Maker

The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee

Gideon's Way
as General Sir Hector McGregor

Who Was Maddox?
as Alex Campbell

The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator

The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling

West 11
as Gash

Billy Liar
as Duxbury

Cleopatra
as Titus (uncredited)

Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby

The Cracksman
as Feathers

The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye

The Saint
as Don Pasquale

Man of the World
as Donald

The Inspector
as De Kool

Go to Blazes
as Judge

Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob

Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane

Francis of Assisi
as The Pope

Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard

Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior

Danger Man
as 'Jock'

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers

The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop

Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson

Ben-Hur
as Balthasar

Solomon and Sheba
as David

Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson

Tempest
as Count Grinov

Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)

6.5 Special
as Himself

The Naked Earth
as Father Verity

Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient

Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly

Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims

The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett

Seven Waves Away
as Mr. Wheaton

Zarak
as The Mullah

Around the World in 80 Days
as Whist Partner

Armchair Theatre
as Professor Syme

The Count of Monte Cristo

Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters

King's Rhapsody
as King Paul

Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan

Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta

Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius

The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson

Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal

General Electric Theater
as MacMorriss

Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph

Ivanhoe
as Cedric

Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer

Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire