Birthday
1878/01/19
Day of death
1968/05/09 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Also know as
William Finlay Currie
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), base...Read more
(1959) Ben-Hur
as Balthasar
(1963) Murder at the Gallop
as Old Enderby
(1965) Bunny Lake Is Missing
as The Doll Maker
(1956) Around the World in Eighty Days
as Whist Partner
(1958) Corridors of Blood
as Supt. Charles Matheson
(1951) People Will Talk
as Shunderson
(1950) Treasure Island
as Capt. Billy Bones
(1951) Quo Vadis
as Peter
(1934) My Old Dutch
as Mo
(1963) Billy Liar
as Duxbury
(1952) Ivanhoe
as Cedric
(1936) The Improper Duchess
as Milton Lee
(1935) Me and Marlborough
as Marriage Celebrant (uncredited)
(1946) Great Expectations
as Abel Magwitch
(1959) Solomon and Sheba
as David
(1960) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Captain Sellers
(1960) Kidnapped
as Cluny MacPherson
(1952) Stars and Stripes Forever
as Col. Randolph
(1937) The Edge of the World
as James Gray
(1955) Footsteps in the Fog
as Inspector Peters
(1958) 6.5 Special
as Himself
(1947) The Brothers
as Hector Macrae
(1964) The Fall of the Roman Empire
as Senator
(1948) So Evil My Love
as Dr. Krylie
(1949) The History of Mr. Polly
as Uncle Jim
(1946) School for Secrets
as Sir Duncan Wills
(1945) I Know Where I'm Going!
as Ruairidh Mhór
(1952) Walk East on Beacon
as Professor Albert Kafer
(1953) Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
as Hamish MacPherson
(1942) Thunder Rock
as Capt. Joshua Stuart
(1961) Francis of Assisi
as The Pope
(1957) Abandon Ship
as Mr. Wheaton
(1961) Joseph and His Brethren
as Jacob
(1957) Saint Joan
as Archbishop of Rheims
(1954) Third Party Risk
as Mr. Darius
(1950) The Mudlark
as John Brown
(1955) Captain Lightfoot
as Callahan
(1950) My Daughter Joy
as Sir Thomas McTavish
(1957) The Little Hut
as The Rev. Bertram Brittingham-Brett
(1932) Rome Express
as Sam, Publicist
(1960) The Angel Wore Red
as Bishop
(1962) The Inspector
as De Kool
(1952) Kangaroo
as Michael McGuire
(1943) The Bells Go Down
as District Officer McFarlane
(1965) The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
as Emcee
(1948) Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
as Sir Joshua Varley
(1953) Treasure of the Golden Condor
as MacDougal
(1943) Undercover
as Priest (uncredited)
(1954) Make Me an Offer!
as Abe Sparta
(1948) Bonnie Prince Charlie
as The Marquis of Tullibardine
(1961) Hand in Hand
as Mr. Pritchard
(1946) In the Zone
as ---
(1934) Mister Cinders
as Henry Kemp
(1948) Sleeping Car to Trieste
as Alastair McBain
(1934) Princess Charming
as Baron Seegman
(1961) Clue of the Silver Key
as Harvey Lane
(1964) Who Was Maddox?
as ---
(1934) Little Friend
as Grove
(1943) Warn That Man
as Captain Andrew Fletcher
(1933) The Good Companions
as Monte Mortimer
(1941) 49th Parallel
as The Factor
(1935) Heat Wave
as Captain
(1948) My Brother Jonathan
as Dr. Hammond
(1955) King's Rhapsody
as King Paul
(1933) Excess Baggage
as inspector Toucan
(1933) No Funny Business
as Mr Potterton
(1948) The Monkey's Paw
as Sergeant-Major Morris
(1958) Tempest
as Count Grinov
(1957) Dangerous Exile
as Mr. Patient
(1937) Glamorous Night
as Angus MacKintosh
(1942) The Day Will Dawn
as Capt. Alstad
(1950) The Black Rose
as Alfgar
(1956) Zarak
as The Mullah
(1934) Gay Love
as Highams
(1935) The Big Splash
as Hartley Bassett
(1966) Brigadoon
as Mr. Lundie
(1937) Paradise for Two
as Creditor
(1966) Alice in Wonderland
as Dodo
(1938) The Claydon Treasure Mystery
as Rubin
(1940) Crook's Tour
as Tourist on Desert Bus (uncredited)
(1937) Command Performance
as Al, Arthur's Manager
(1931) The Old Man
as Rennett
(1932) The Frightened Lady
as Brooks
(1950) Trio
as Mr. McLeod
(1963) West 11
as Gash
(1963) The Three Lives of Thomasina
as Grandpa Stirling
(1958) The Naked Earth
as Father Verity
(1957) Campbell's Kingdom
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
(1933) Orders Is Orders
as Dave
(1963) The Cracksman
as Feathers
(1954) The End of the Road
as Old 'Mick-Mack'
(1943) The Shipbuilders
as McWain
(1962) The Amorous Prawn
as Lochaye
(1962) Go to Blazes
as Judge
(1963) Cleopatra
as Titus
(1937) Wanted!
as Uncle Mart
(1946) The Trojan Brothers
as W.H. Maxwell
(1943) They Met in the Dark
as Merchant Captain
(1937) Catch as Catch Can
as Al Parson
(1946) Spring Song
as Cobb
(1945) Don Chicago
as Bugs Mulligan
(1943) Theatre Royal
as Clement J. Earle
(1958) Rockets Galore
as Narrator (uncredited)
(1961) Five Golden Hours
as Father Superior
(1934) It's a Boy
as Publisher
(1969) Vendetta for the Saint
as Don Pasquale
(1967) The Prisoner
as General
(1965) Gideon's Way
as General Sir Hector McGregor
(1953) General Electric Theater
as MacMorriss
(1956) The Count of Monte Cristo
as ---
(1965) United!
as ---
(1967) Les Misérables
as ---
(1962) The Saint
as Don Pasquale