Frank Finlay
Actor/Actriz
80
Movies
38
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
Merlín
Anhora
Play for Today
BBC Play of the Month
Marcus Brutus
Heartbeat
Howard Franklin
Screen Two
Frank Strange
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Coram / Sergius
Blackadder
The Witchsmeller Pursuivant
Tales of the Unexpected
Arthur Pearson
Wogan
Self
Z-Cars
Prime Suspect
Arnold Tennison
El Pianista
Father
El hombre que mira
Nino Rolfe
The Wednesday Play
Albert
Theatre 625
Dr Dee
La llave secreta
Nino Rolfe
Sunday Night Theatre
Louis
Lovejoy
Harold Plumb
El día más largo
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Wilfred Tilley
Fuerza Vital
Dr. Hans Fallada
NET Playhouse
Marcus Brutus
The Grand
Edward Lawrence
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
Alexander 'Alex' Combe
Life Begins
Eric Thornhill
Longitude
Admiral Wagner
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
General Bulstrode
The Three Musketeers
Porthos / O'Reilly
The Wild Geese
Fr. Geoghagen