Finlay Currie
1878–1968 · Scottish actor
William Finlay Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946), as Saint Peter in Quo Vadis (1951) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959).
Finlay Currie, in order
- 1932 Rome Express: acted · directed by Sidney Gilliat and Walter Forde
- 1933 No Funny Business: acted · directed by Victor Hanbury
- 1937 The Edge of the World: acted · directed by Michael Powell
- 1941 49th Parallel: acted · directed by Michael Powell
- 1943 Warn That Man: acted · directed by Lawrence Huntington
- 1945 I Know Where I'm Going!: acted · directed by Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell
- 1946 Great Expectations: acted · directed by David Lean · critics 100%, audiences 88% · streaming on fuboTV, HBO Max, Roku Channel
- 1947 The Brothers: acted · directed by David MacDonald
- 1949 The History of Mr. Polly: acted · directed by Anthony Pelissier
- 1950 The Black Rose: acted · directed by Henry Hathaway · audiences 41%
- 1950 The Mudlark: acted · directed by Jean Negulesco
- 1950 Treasure Island: acted · directed by Byron Haskin
- 1950 Trio: acted · directed by Harold French and Ken Annakin · audiences 60% · streaming on Criterion Channel
- 1951 People Will Talk: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1951 Quo Vadis: acted · directed by Mervyn LeRoy
- 1952 Ivanhoe: acted · directed by Richard Thorpe
- 1952 Kangaroo: acted · directed by Lewis Milestone
- 1952 Stars and Stripes Forever: acted · directed by Henry Koster
- 1952 Walk East on Beacon: acted · directed by Alfred L. Werker
- 1953 Treasure of the Golden Condor: acted · directed by Delmer Daves
- 1954 Beau Brummell: acted · directed by Curtis Bernhardt
- 1954 Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue: acted · directed by Harold French
- 1954 The End of the Road: acted · directed by Wolf Rilla
- 1954 Third Party Risk: acted · directed by Daniel Birt
- 1955 Captain Lightfoot: acted · directed by Douglas Sirk
- 1955 Footsteps in the Fog: acted · directed by Arthur Lubin
- 1955 King's Rhapsody: acted · directed by Herbert Wilcox
- 1956 Around the World in 80 Days: acted · directed by John Farrow and Michael Anderson · critics 72%, audiences 57% · streaming on Kanopy, Tubi
- 1956 Zarak: acted · directed by Terence Young
- 1957 Campbell's Kingdom: acted · directed by Ralph Thomas
- 1957 Dangerous Exile: acted · directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
- 1957 Saint Joan: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
- 1957 Seven Waves Away: acted · directed by Richard Sale
- 1957 The Little Hut: acted · directed by Mark Robson
- 1958 Corridors of Blood: acted · directed by Robert Day
- 1958 Tempest: acted · directed by Alberto Lattuada
- 1958 The Naked Earth: acted · directed by Vincent Sherman
- 1959 Ben-Hur: acted · directed by William Wyler
- 1959 Solomon and Sheba: acted · directed by King Vidor
- 1960 Kidnapped: acted · directed by Robert Stevenson
- 1960 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: acted · directed by Michael Curtiz
- 1960 The Angel Wore Red: acted · directed by Nunnally Johnson · audiences 36%
- 1960 The Story of Joseph and His Brethren: acted · directed by Irving Rapper and Luciano Ricci
- 1961 Five Golden Hours: acted · directed by Mario Zampi
- 1961 Francis of Assisi: acted · directed by Michael Curtiz
- 1962 The Inspector: acted · directed by Philip Dunne
- 1963 Billy Liar: acted · directed by John Schlesinger · critics 91%, audiences 83% · streaming on Kanopy, Tubi
- 1963 Cleopatra: acted · directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1963 Murder at the Gallop: acted · directed by George Pollock
- 1963 The Three Lives of Thomasina: acted · directed by Don Chaffey
- 1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire: acted · directed by Anthony Mann
- 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing: acted · directed by Otto Preminger
- 1965 The Battle of the Villa Fiorita: acted · directed by Delmer Daves
- 1966 Alice in Wonderland (TV movie): acted · directed by Jonathan Miller
- Who Was Maddox?: acted