Frank Finlay

Highest Rated: 95% The Pianist (2002)

Lowest Rated: 23% The Statement (2003)

Birthday: Aug 6, 1926

Birthplace: Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK

RADA-trained British stage actor Frank Finlay was 31 when he made his London stage debut. The following year, he scored his first significant theatrical success, playing an elderly Jewish patriarch in Chicken Soup With Barley. In 1962, the RADA-trained Finlay made the first of his infrequent film appearances in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. In 1964, Finlay toured with the National Theatre of Great Britain, playing Iago opposite Laurence Olivier's Othello. When Othello was committed to film in 1965, it was Finlay who received the lion's share of excellent notices; he was also nominated for an Academy Award. Most of Finlay's film characters have had sturdy literary pedigrees: he played Porthos in The Three Musketeers (1973) and its two sequels; Inspector Lestrade in a brace of Sherlock Holmes films, A Study in Terror (1965) and Murder by Decree (1979); Jacob Marley in the 1984 George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol; and Sancho Panza in a 1973 made-for-TV adaptation of Don Quixote. Among the historical figures portrayed by Frank Finlay are John Carter in Cromwell (1969), Sergei Alleluveya in Stalin (1992), the title roles in the British TV productions The Last Days of Hitler and Casanova, and the part of Salieri in the London staging of Amadeus. Finlay continued acting through the 2000s; he died in 2016, at age 89.

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Movies

		Credit
No Score Yet	The Sandwich Man	Actor	—	2013
60%	The Waiting Room	Roger	—	2007
No Score Yet	Count Dracula	Actor	—	2007
No Score Yet	Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act	Arnold Tennison	—	2006
23%	The Statement	Commissaire Vionne	$0.6M	2003
No Score Yet	Beethoven: Eroica	Actor	—	2003
95%	The Pianist	The father	$32.6M	2002
No Score Yet	Silent Cry	Actor	—	2002
No Score Yet	Lighthouse Hill	Alfred	—	2002
No Score Yet	Station Jim	Riorden Sr.	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Martins (The Tosspots)	Mr. Heath	—	2001
No Score Yet	The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns	Gen. Bulstrode	—	1999
36%	Dreaming of Joseph Lees	Father	—	1999
38%	Stiff Upper Lips	Husdon Jr.	—	1998
No Score Yet	Romance And Rejection	Mike's Father	—	1997
No Score Yet	Storia di una capinera (Sparrow)	Father Nunzio	—	1993
No Score Yet	Stalin	Sergei Alliluyeva	—	1992
No Score Yet	Black Magic Mansion	Chandu	—	1991
No Score Yet	King of the Wind	Edward Coke	—	1990
60%	The Return of the Musketeers	Porthos	—	1989
No Score Yet	Casanova	Razetta	—	1987
No Score Yet	Nineteen Nineteen	Sigmund Freud	—	1986
No Score Yet	Mona	Actor	—	1986
60%	Lifeforce	Inspector Fallada	—	1985
No Score Yet	Arch of Triumph	Actor	—	1985
No Score Yet	The Return of the Soldier	Actor	—	1985
No Score Yet	A Christmas Carol	Marley's Ghost	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Ploughman's Lunch	Matthew Fox	—	1984
No Score Yet	Sakharov	Kravtsov	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Key	Nino Rolfe	—	1983
No Score Yet	Enigma	Canarsky	—	1983
No Score Yet	Return of the Soldier	William Grey	—	1982
88%	Murder by Decree	Inspector Lestrade	—	1979
No Score Yet	Satan's Wife	Actor	—	1979
63%	The Wild Geese	Priest	—	1978
No Score Yet	Saturday, Sunday, Monday	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	The Thief of Baghdad	Actor	—	1978
No Score Yet	Count Dracula	Actor	—	1977
No Score Yet	Satan's Wife	Actor	—	1977
No Score Yet	Bouquet of Barbed Wire	Actor	—	1976
76%	The Four Musketeers	Porthos	—	1975
85%	The Three Musketeers	Porthos	—	1973
No Score Yet	The Death of Adolf Hitler	Hitler	—	1973
60%	Shaft in Africa	Amafi	—	1973
No Score Yet	Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (The Exorcism of Hugh)	George Dabernon	—	1972
No Score Yet	The Merchant of Venice	Shylock	—	1972
No Score Yet	Sitting Target	Marty Gold	—	1972
No Score Yet	Gumshoe	William	—	1971
33%	Cromwell	John Carter	—	1970
90%	The Molly Maguires	Davies	—	1970
No Score Yet	Assault (In the Devil's Garden)(Satan's Playthings)(The Creepers)(Tower of Terror)	Det. Chief Supt. Velyan	—	1970
No Score Yet	Twisted Nerve	Henry Durnley	—	1969
No Score Yet	Inspector Clouseau	Supt. Weaver	—	1968
No Score Yet	I'll Never Forget What's'isname	Chaplain	—	1968
43%	The Shoes of the Fisherman	Igor Bounin	—	1968
80%	Robbery	Robinson	—	1967
No Score Yet	The Jokers	Harassed Man	—	1967
No Score Yet	The Deadly Bees	Manfred	—	1967
82%	Othello	Iago	—	1965
No Score Yet	Agent 8 3/4 (Hot Enough for June)	Janitor	—	1965
No Score Yet	A Study in Terror	Inspector Lestrade	—	1965
No Score Yet	Doctor in Distress	Corsetiere	—	1963
No Score Yet	Private Potter	Capt. Patterson	—	1963
87%	The Longest Day	Pvt. Coke	—	1962
73%	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner	Booking Office Clerk	—	1962

TV

		Credit
85%	Merlin 2009-2012	Anhora	2009
100%	Prime Suspect 1991-2006	Arnold Tennison	2006
No Score Yet	Masterpiece 1971-2014	Arnold Tennison Asquith	2006 2004
No Score Yet	Tales of the Unexpected 1979-1988	Arthur
57%	The Black Adder 1983	Witch Hunter

QUOTES FROM Frank Finlay CHARACTERS

Rafer Janders says: I thought you were dead.

The Priest says: Looking at you and your guns, I am.

Inspector Fallada says: Death, Colonel Caine, correct. Thanatology's the name for it. Death for you, Colonel, is a bureaucratic problem. Who did it. When, why did they do it. A problem to be solved, am I correct?

The father says: One caramel for 20 zloytas? Fine, we will split it.