Frank Finlay

ACTOR

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One of Britain's finest products of the stage, film and TV, actor Frank Finlay, he with the dark and handsomely serious-to-mordant looks, was born on August 6, 1926, in Farnworth, England, the son of Josiah, a butcher, and Margaret Finlay. Of English, Irish and Scottish descent, Frank attended St. Gregory the Great School and then was actually training to follow in his father's footsteps as a butcher himself when his side interest in acting eventually won out. He became a member of the Farnworth Little Theatre and met his future wife, Doreen Shepherd, a fellow member at the same time. They married in 1954, had three children (two sons, one daughter) and were married for over 50 years until her death in 2005.Finlay began his professional career on the repertory stage with roles in The Guilford Theatre Company's 1957 productions of "Jessica" and "The Telescope". Graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he built up a strong and sturdy theatrical reputation at the Royal Court Theatre between 1958 and 1960 where he was seen to good advantage in such plays as "Chicken Soup and Barley", "Sugar in the Morning", "Sergeant Musgrave's Dance", "Roots", "I'm Talking About Jerusalem", "The Happy Haven" and "Platonov". Making his Broadway debut in "The Epitaph of George Dillon" in 1959, he also sparked a noteworthy professional association with Laurence Olivier at the National Theatre, the highlight being his intense but subtle portrayal of "Iago" to Olivier's "Othello" in 1964.Marking his film debut in a bit role in Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers (1962), Finlay sandwiched in a steady stream of British film parts (including Private Potter (1962), Doktor in Nöten (1963), Manche mögen's geheim (1964), Die Karriere des Chick B. (1964), Sherlock Holmes größter Fall (1965) (as "Jack the Ripper" Inspector Lestrade), Minirock und Kronjuwelen (1967), Die tödlichen Bienen (1966) and Millionen-Raub (1967)) in between theatre assignments. His greatest film opportunity occurred when he was given the right by Olivier to recreate his Iago role opposite the legendary actor in the masterful film adaptation of Othello (1965). Finlay, Maggie Smith (as "Desdemona") and Joyce Redman (as "Emilia") all received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for their illustrious "supporting" work of Olivier (who was also Oscar nominated). Frank went on to nab a "Most Promising Newcomer" nomination from the BAFTA committee as well. To date, this has been the actor's only Oscar recognition.Frank's film output, aside from his dashing role as "Porthos" for director Richard Lester in the ripe Dumas adaptation of Die drei Musketiere (1973) (and its sequels Die vier Musketiere (1974) and Die Rückkehr der Musketiere (1989)), has been at an international level. Films include In den Schuhen des Fischers (1968), Cromwell - Krieg dem König (1970), Verflucht bis zum jüngsten Tag (1970), Shaft in Afrika (1973), Die Wildgänse kommen (1978), Mord an der Themse (1979) (again as "Inspector Lestrade"), Die Schatten der Vergangenheit (1982), La chiave (1983) [The Key], Lifeforce - Die tödliche Bedrohung (1985), Glühender Himmel (1991), Mr. Right... zur falschen Zeit (1997), Silent Cry (2002) and, most notably, the Oscar-winning WWII picture Der Pianist (2002), directed by Roman Polanski, in which he portrayed the patriarch of a displaced Jewish family that included "Best Actor" son Adrien Brody.Classical television notice came in middle age with Frank's strong performances as "Jean Valjean" in the British TV mini-series Les Misérables (1967) and the title role in Casanova (1971). He also went on to win stellar praise and a BAFTA award for his chilling portrayal of "Adolf Hitler" in ITV Saturday Night Theatre: The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973). Finlay and Susan Penhaligon courted controversy in the drama series Bouquet of Barbed Wire (1976) and were reunited in further controversy the following year with its follow-up Another Bouquet (1977). More plentiful and prestigious BBC-TV work came with his roles as Shakespeare's "Brutus" and "Shylock", not to mention his award-winning performances as "Voltaire" and "Sancho Panza".In Count Dracula (1977), Finlay played "Van Helsing" to nemesis Louis Jourdan's velvety-voiced vampire; in Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte (1984), he was the dour, shackled "Jacob Marley", who pays a ghostly visit to George C. Scott's crusty "Ebenezer Scrooge"; and in Eroica (2003), he portrayed composer "Franz Josef Haydn" alongside Ian Hart's "Beethoven". Most recently, Frank has been appearing in the mini-series Rosamunde Pilcher - Vier Jahreszeiten (2008).Throughout his prolific career on TV and film, Frank has maintained on the stage given sterling performances in "Much Ado About Nothing (as "Dogberry"), "The Crucible", "Saturday Sunday Monday", "Filumena", "Amadeus" (a most affecting Salieri), "Mutiny" (as "Captain Bligh"), "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and as the rigid father in the 1992 period production of "The Heiress". - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

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Releases by Year

Frank Finlay on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2007. See the full graphs of the number of Frank Finlay movies released per year from 1990 till 2007.

Top Genres

Frank Finlay works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 38% of Frank Finlay movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Frank Finlay worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Frank Finlay has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Frank Finlay's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Biography,Drama,Music
The Pianist (2002)

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

8.5/10150 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama
Life Begins (2004)

Maggie and Phil are a late-30s English couple on a standard summer holiday with their two teenage children. On their first morning on holiday, Phil announces he wants to move out. Maggie is...

7.9/1050 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Drama,Family,Fantasy
A Christmas Carol (1984)

An old bitter miser who rationalizes his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three spirits visit him on Christmas Eve.

7.8/10100 min

Available in 16 platform(s).

The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

7.3/10150 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

An American spends his holiday in Ireland, where he is introduced to the world of magical creatures like leprechauns and fairies. In a subplot, a forbidden love story blossoms between leprechaun Mickey and fairy Jessica.

6.9/10139 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

In the Pennsylvanian coal mines of 1876, a group of Irish immigrant workers begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment.

6.8/10124 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

Two complete strangers, Anna and Stephen, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to...

6.5/10110 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel, evil and good and thus begins the life of Sham.

6.5/10103 min

Available in 1 platform(s).