Cast & creator
Frank Finlay
Best known for Play for Today, Play for Today, The Wednesday Play
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.
Also known as: 프랭크 핀레이, Francis "Frank" Finlay, Francis Finlay
92
film credits
56
television credits
147
1950–2018 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (148)
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Play for Today
1970Play for Today
Dearth
1970
The Wednesday Play
Albert
1964
Wogan
Self
1982
Heartbeat
Howard Franklin
1992
Screen Two
Frank Strange
1985
Tales of the Unexpected
Arthur Pearson
1979
Merlin
Anhora
2008
BBC Play of the Month
Marcus Brutus
1965BBC Play of the Month
Shylock
1965BBC Play of the Month
Sancho Panza
1965BBC Play of the Month
Voltaire
1965
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Coram / Sergius
1984
Z-Cars
1962
Theatre 625
Dr Dee
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
The Man
1965
Blackadder
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
1983
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Wilfred Tilley
1969ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Adolf Hitler
1969
Sunday Night Theatre
Louis
1950
The Pianist
Father
2002
Prime Suspect
Arnold Tennison
1991
Lovejoy
Harold Plumb
1986
NET Playhouse
Marcus Brutus
1966Drama 61-67
Albert Hope
1961
The Voyeur
Nino Rolfe
1994
The Key
Nino Rolfe
1983
The Grand
Edward Lawrence
1997Studio 4
Fernand Destayac
1962
The Longest Day
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
1962
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Professor Coram / Sergius
1994
Lifeforce
Dr. Hans Fallada
1985
Longitude
Admiral Wagner
2000
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
General Bulstrode
1999
The Three Musketeers
Porthos / O'Reilly
1973
Johnny and the Bomb
Tom Maxwell
2006
The Wild Geese
Fr. Geoghagen
1978
Life Begins
Eric Thornhill
2004
Armchair Theatre
Franco Angelo
1956Armchair Theatre
Bosun
1956Armchair Theatre
Patrick Kelly
1956Armchair Theatre
David Field
1956
Laurence Olivier Presents
Peppino
1976The Younger Generation
Ross Mayer
1961The Younger Generation
George Tremaine
1961
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Alexander 'Alex' Combe
2008
Inspector Clouseau
Supt. Weaver
1968
The Sins
Uncle Irwin Green
2000
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Alcuin
1994
The Lost Prince
Asquith
2003
How Do You Want Me?
1998
The Spanish Civil War
Self - Narrator
1983The Spanish Civil War
Vocals
1983
The Burning Shore
Garrick
1991
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
2018
The Four Musketeers
Porthos
1974
Bouquet of Barbed Wire
Peter Manson
1976
A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley
1984Target Luna
Conway Henderson
1960
The Miracle of Medjugorje
Monsignor
1995
The Molly Maguires
Davies
1970
Murder by Decree
Inspector Lestrade
1979
Count Dracula
Professor Van Helsing
1977
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Igor Bounin
1968
Shaft in Africa
Vincent Amafi
1973
Mountain of Diamonds
Garrick
1991
The Statement
Commissaire Vionnet
2003
A Study in Terror
Inspector Lestrade
1965
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
2015You Can't Win
George Lander
1961
Hot Enough for June
British Embassy Porter
1964
Twisted Nerve
Henry Durnley
1968
The Return of the Musketeers
Porthos
1989
Station Jim
Riorden Snr
2001
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
1962
The Thief of Baghdad
Abu Bakar
1978
Cromwell
John Carter
1970
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Father
1999
Robbery
Robinson
1967Dear Brutus
Dearth
1981
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Chaplain
1967
Casanova
Razetta
1987
Count Dracula
Abraham van Helsing
1977
Casanova
Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
1971
Stalin
Sergei
1992
Mona
Captain Manson
1982
Sparrow
Father Nunzio
1994An Exchange of Fire
Pavel Rhele
1993
The Return of the Soldier
William Grey
1983
Arch of Triumph
Col. Boris Morosov
1984
Erebus: The Aftermath
Justice Peter Mahon
1987
Doctor in Distress
Corsetiere
1963
Julius Caesar
Brutus
1969
Ring of Darkness
Paul
1979
King of the Wind
Edward Coke
1990
Mountain of Diamonds
Garrick
1991
Sitting Target
Marty Gold
1972
Cthulhu Mansion
Chandu
1992
Enigma
Canarsky
1982
A Mind to Murder
Professor Etherege
1995
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean
1967
Another Bouquet
1977Betzi
Napoleon
1978
Stiff Upper Lips
Hudson Junior
1998
The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
1972
The Informers
Leon Sale
1963Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Mike's Dad
1997Danny Jones
1972
The Deadly Bees
H.W. Manfred
1966
Assault
Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
1971
Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984
The Sandwich Man
Second Fish Porter
1966
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
George Dabernon
1972
Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry
1967
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
1973
The Waiting Room
Roger
2007
In the Secret State
Frank Strange
1985
84 Charing Cross Road
Frank Doel
1975
The Jokers
Harrassed Man
1967
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
1973
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
1974
Othello
Iago
1965
Gumshoe
William Ginley
1971
The Ploughman's Lunch
Matthew Fox
1983
The Comedy Man
Prout
1964
Sakharov
Kravtsov
1984
The Wild Affair
Drunk
1965
Van der Valk and the Rich
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
1973
Nineteen Nineteen
Sigmund Freud (voice)
1985
For My Baby
Rudi Wittfogel
2000
Life for Ruth
Teddy's Father
1962
Eroica
Josef Haydn
2003The Making Of Lifeforce
Self
1985
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Shahriar
1981
The Martins
Mr Heath
2001
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Peppino
1978Blood of the Lamb
Albert
1969
Limited Edition
John Rathbone
1997
The Lie
Andrew Firth
1970
The Body
Narrator
1970
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
1975
Lighthouse Hill
Alfred
2004
Private Potter
Capt. Patterson
1962The Piano Tuner
Wilfred Tilley
1969This Happy Breed
Frank Gibbons
1969The Spare Tyres
Council foreman
1967The Hard Knock
Franco Angelo
1962The Other Side
Arthur Conan Doyle
1992