Cast & creator
Jon Finch
Best known for Casualty, The Bill, BBC Play of the Month
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971). Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
Also known as: Джон Финч, John Nicholas Finch
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1965–2014 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (62)
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Casualty
Graham Lester
1986
The Bill
1984
BBC Play of the Month
Sir Edward Mortimer
1965
Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
1984
Kingdom of Heaven
Patriarch of Jerusalem
2005
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Steve
1969
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Henry Bolingbroke
1978The BBC Television Shakespeare
King Henry the Fourth
1978
The New Avengers
Wallace
1976
The Play on One
Finn
1988
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
1994
Hammer House of Horror
David
1980
Curro Jiménez
McCallaghan
1976
Death on the Nile
James Ferguson
1978
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
1994
Love at First Sight
George
1992
South of the Border
Trevor
1988
Maigret
1992
The Martian Chronicles
Christ
1980
Counterstrike
Simon King
1969
Peter and Paul
Luke
1981
Frenzy
Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
1972
The Vampire Lovers
Carl Ebhardt
1970
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
Vortigern
1991
Macbeth
Macbeth
1971
Unexplained Laughter
Finn
1989
The Horror of Frankenstein
Lt. Henry Becker
1970
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scotsman
1971
Tom Grattan's War
Charlie
1968The Voice
Miller
1989
Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb
1972
Breaking Glass
Woods
1980
Game of Seduction
Count Charles de Lapalmmes
1976
The Story of 'Frenzy'
Self
2001
Henry IV Part 1
King Henry IV
1979
Henry IV Part 2
King Henry IV
1979
Beautiful Lies
George Orwell
1992
The Final Programme
Jerry Cornelius
1973
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Self (archive footage)
2014
Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1980
Much Ado About Nothing
Don Pedro
1984
Lurking Fear
Bennett
1994The Odd Job Man
George Griffin
1984
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Derek Jarvis
1998Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Self / James Ferguson
1978
The Big Screen
Self
1973
La più bella del reame
Jeremy
1989
Streets of Yesterday
1989
Darklands
David Keller
1996
Doctor Faustus
Adrian Leverkühn
1982
Make and Break
Peter Davis
1987
Richard II
Henry Bolingbroke
1978
Polanski Meets Macbeth
Self
1972
Giro City
O'Mally
1982
White Men Are Cracking Up
Detective Margrave
1996
The Standard
Charbinsky
1977
Tomb of Terror
Bennett
2004
Diagnosis: Murder
Lomax
1974
Power Game
1983
Pop Pirates
Coastguard
1984
El segundo poder
Juan de Sacramonte
1976
La Sabina
Michael
1979