Peter Finch
Birthday: 1916-09-27
Place of Birth: South Kensington, London, England, UK
Biography: Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the BAFTA, and a Best Actor award from the Golden Globes. He was the first of two people to win a posthumous Academy Award in an acting category; the other was fellow Australian Heath Ledger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Finch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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10:30 P.M. Summer
A female traveling companion seduces a married man and his alcoholic wife....
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The Flight of the Phoenix
A cargo aircraft crashes in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of th...
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and beco...
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Network
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he anno...
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The Red Tent
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
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Raid on Entebbe
Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Fron...
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The Making of 'Network'
An engrossing feature-length documentary about the making of Sidney Lumet's classic film "Network."...
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The Nun's Story
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to h...
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's ...
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The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's
A look back at the people, events, music, and trends of the 1970s....
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Kidnapped
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventure...
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Elephant Walk
Colonial tea planter John Wiley (Peter Finch), visiting England at the end of World War II, wins and...
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artis...
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Operation Amsterdam
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants...
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Girl with Green Eyes
A naive young country girl moves to Dublin and finds herself drawn to a sophisticated author twice h...
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The Battle of the River Plate
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the At...
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Eureka Stockade
In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government....
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The Rats of Tobruk
Three friends enlist in the Australian Army and serve in North Africa, holding the city of Tobruk ag...
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The Pumpkin Eater
Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful b...
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The Dark Avenger
Edward, Prince of Wales, son and heir to his father King Edward III of England, leads an English arm...
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The Legend of Lylah Clare
A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biogra...
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A Town Like Alice
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The ...
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Lost Horizon
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued a...
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Father Brown
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two ...
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I Thank a Fool
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license a...
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive fi...
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Simon and Laura
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show....
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The Heart of the Matter
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when h...
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In the Cool of the Day
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hope...
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No Love for Johnnie
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his li...
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Judith
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband....
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son...
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Josephine and Men
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch f...
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The Shiralee
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him....
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Make Me an Offer!
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he st...
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The Miniver Story
The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-W...
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Passage Home
Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A youn...
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The Wooden Horse
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany...
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer tu...
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Murderers' Row
The handsome top agent Matt dies a tragic death in his bath tub - the women mourn about the loss. Ho...
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Windom's Way
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marri...
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Robbery Under Arms
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convi...
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First Men in the Moon
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands o...
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Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
A down-and-out clerk happens upon a bag of money. Unknown to him, the money is all counterfeit, forc...
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Bequest to the Nation
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson an...
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England Made Me
A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor i...
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The Abdication
Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic church....
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Something to Hide
A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhike...
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The Power and the Glory
The Power and the Glory is a 1941 Australian war film about a Czech scientist who escapes from the N...
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A Son Is Born
This family melodrama, a tale of desertion, vengeful seduction, coincidental meeting and catharsis, ...
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Indonesia Calling
Filmed secretly in Sydney by Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens, this short records the solidarity of I...
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Dad and Dave Come to Town
Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the...
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Jungle Patrol
This black and white film was made by the Australian government to show Australia's contribution to ...
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Train of Events
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how...
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These Stars Are Mine
George Reynolds, recently discharged from the army, tells his father of his plans to marry and relax...
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The Greatest Mother of 'em All
Stage mother Dolly Murdock (Ann Sothern) uses the attractiveness of her teenage daughter Tricia (Ale...
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Location: Far from the Madding Crowd
This promotional short film for the feature Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) takes us to the many l...
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The Riddle of Robin Hood
Promotional film for The Story of Robin Hood, featuring Walt Disney and production personnel; releas...
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Lionpower from MGM
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...
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