Frank Finlay
Birthday: 1926-08-06
Place of Birth: Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography: Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement. His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.
Movies
The Pianist
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
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Shaft in Africa
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring....
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Ring of Darkness
Once a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins to re...
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The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...
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Enigma
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In ord...
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Inspector Clouseau
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland ...
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The Wild Geese
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a ...
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Lifeforce
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic desce...
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Cromwell
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...
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The Waiting Room
Two complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits...
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Murder by Decree
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's Ea...
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Cthulhu Mansion
After a drug deal gone wrong, a group of punks flee to a secluded mansion where the house itself beg...
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The Key
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her...
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The Statement
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War I...
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The Molly Maguires
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath,...
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The Return of the Musketeers
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has over...
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Dear Brutus
"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. ...
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The Wild Affair
Young office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however, she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is th...
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Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
After a failed marriage, Anna retreats to the haunting, eerie climes of the Isle of Jersey, where sh...
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Othello
General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife ha...
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Sparrow
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old nov...
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Blood of the Lamb
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, th...
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In the Secret State
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head...
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Mona
A teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the Firs...
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The Deadly Bees
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's...
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Sitting Target
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term...
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Robbery
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an auda...
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousi...
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Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutiona...
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The Jokers
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not f...
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Assault
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a...
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Stiff Upper Lips
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory pro...
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Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commerci...
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Arch of Triumph
A 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, which was previo...
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Limited Edition
Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he rec...
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A Mind to Murder
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of ...
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The Thief of Baghdad
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful pr...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic ...
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King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a...
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The Ploughman's Lunch
As the UK begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to climb u...
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For My Baby
A young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses to ...
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84 Charing Cross Road
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today....
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Count Dracula
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. H...
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Lighthouse Hill
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where...
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Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri...
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The Return of the Soldier
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized...
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Much Ado About Nothing
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre...
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The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...
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The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters....
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Mountain of Diamonds
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in...
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The Lie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Fra...
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Van der Valk and the Rich
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chi...
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Casanova
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because ...
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The Hard Knock
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent dea...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpecte...
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A Christmas Carol
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable e...
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of hi...
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Doctor in Distress
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lanc...
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The Piano Tuner
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series....
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Eroica
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van B...
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Danny Jones
In the quiet calm of the Welsh foothills, Danny Jones reaches the age of seventeen with a strong des...
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The Merchant of Venice
Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic ...
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The Voyeur
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautifu...
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Betzi
A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena....
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The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter...
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Station Jim
At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes hi...
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The Spare Tyres
Dennis is told by his wife to remove two old tyres from the garden of their new home. He tries vario...
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The Body
A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and ...
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Nineteen Nineteen
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years ear...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants"...
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Stalin
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. Through the eyes and memories of An...
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their fr...
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The Martins
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accid...
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Virgin Mary
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The l...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks o...
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Hot Enough for June
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag...
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fif...
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The Comedy Man
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job...
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Life for Ruth
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His ...
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Private Potter
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a tr...
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A Study in Terror
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few d...
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Olivier Talks About Othello
Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."...
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Nothing Like a Dame
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atki...
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The Informers
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to ...
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Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Dutch police inspector Piet Van der Valk finds himself repeatedly crossing paths wiht the beautiful ...
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Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
A flurry of anonymous letters and two suicides leads Inspector Van der Valk to a mission in Drente w...
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Royal Variety Performance 1984
In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Pri...
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The Making Of Lifeforce
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the sci-fi classic Lifeforce, directed by Tobe Hoop...
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