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Finlay Currie (20 January, 1878 - 9 May, 1968) was a Scottish-born British actor on stage, screen and television.

His acting career began on the stage, and he made his first film (The Old Man) in 1932. 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.

As a character actor, with a (usually) rich Scottish accent, his craggy features graced many memorable films, which include:

• Rome Express (1932)
• The Edge of the World (1937)
• Forty-Ninth Parallel (1941)
• Thunder Rock (1942)
• I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
• Great Expectations (1946)
• Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
• The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
• Whisky Galore! (1949)
• Treasure Island (1950)
• The Mudlark (1950)
• People Will Talk (1951)
• Quo Vadis (1951) (as the Apostle Peter)
• Ivanhoe (1952)
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Ben-Hur (1959) (as Balthasar, one of the three Wise Men)
• Solomon and Sheba (1959)
• Billy Liar (1963)
• Murder at the Gallop (1963)
• The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
• The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

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