Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish actor on stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife, Maude Courtney (1884 - 1959), did a song and dance act in the United States in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1932. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover.
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- Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish actor on stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife, Maude Courtney (1884 - 1959), did a song and dance act in the United States in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1932. 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 by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis, 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 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 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, specializing in coins and precious metals.
- Finlay Jefferson Currie war ein schottischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler.
- Finlay Currie (1878-1968), actor británico.
- Finlay Currie est un acteur britannique né le 20 janvier 1878 à Édimbourg et décédé le 9 mai 1968 dans le Buckinghamshire.
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- Maude Courtney (1884-1959) (her death)
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- Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish actor on stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife, Maude Courtney (1884 - 1959), did a song and dance act in the United States in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1932. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover.
- Finlay Jefferson Currie war ein schottischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler.
- Finlay Currie (1878-1968), actor británico.
- Finlay Currie est un acteur britannique né le 20 janvier 1878 à Édimbourg et décédé le 9 mai 1968 dans le Buckinghamshire.
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