James Finlayson
Born August 26, 1887 · Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the most famous comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.
Notable Appearances
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Saps at Sea
Pack Up Your Troubles
Way Out West
The Perils of Pauline
A Chump at Oxford
The Devil's Brother
The Big Parade of Comedy
She-Wolf of London
Scorching Sands
Pardon Us
Block-Heads
Bonnie Scotland
The Flying Deuces
Our Wife
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
The Toast of New York
Two Sisters from Boston
Angel
Newly Rich
Me and My Pal
Call of the Cuckoo
Sugar Daddies
Married Life
The Great Victor Herbert
The Muppets Go to the Movies
Love, Honor and Behave
Down on the Farm
Dick Turpin
Sure-Mike!
Wife Tamers
The Bohemian Girl
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
Our Relations
Unfriendly Enemies
The Crossroads of New York
The Second 100 Years
Hollywood Cavalcade
With Love and Hisses
Big Business
A Small Town Idol
The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy
Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening?
Don't Tell Everything
Do Detectives Think?
Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath
Nature in the Wrong
Courtship of Miles Sandwich
Frozen Hearts
Show Girl
Brothers Under the Chin
What's the World Coming To?
Thieves
Hollywood
Don Key (Son of Burro)
One Good Turn
The Dawn Patrol
One of the Smiths
White Wings
In Dutch
Dance of the Cookoos
Pitfalls of a Big City
So This Is Harris!
Roughest Africa
Another Fine Mess
Chickens Come Home
No Man's Law
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
The Hoose-Gow
Trying to Get Along
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
Mary, Queen of Tots
Night Owls
Raffles
Hard Boiled
She Sighed by the Seaside
A Punch in the Nose
Liberty
Postage Due
Scratch-As-Catch-Can
Rupert of Hee-Haw
Grand Canyon Trail
The Soilers
Pick a Star
Thicker Than Water
Love 'Em and Weep
Men O' War
Should Tall Men Marry?
A Man About Town
Here We Go Again
The Caretaker's Daughter
Hard Knocks and Love Taps
Young Eagles
Yanks Ahoy
Sold at Auction!
Thundering Fleas
Laurel & Hardy - Highlights
Oranges and Lemons
Hasty Marriage
Thundering Landlords
For the Defense
Raggedy Rose
Pick and Shovel
The Gay Nighties
Innocent Husbands
Wall Street
Seeing the World
Bachelor’s Paradise
Unreleased
The World of Laurel and Hardy
Yes, Yes, Nanette
Thunder Below
Jus' Passin' Through
Jack Frost
Madame Mystery
Welcome Home
Madame Sans Jane
Wide Open Spaces
The Chimp
Mother's Joy
Mush and Milk
Flying Elephants
All Over Town
Short Kilts
Zeb vs. Paprika
Lady Be Good
The Nickel-Hopper
Hats Off
Don't Weaken!
Smithy
Flaming Flappers
Dollar Dizzy
Near Dublin
California or Bust
Two Weeks Off
Moonlight and Noses
The Noon Whistle
Chasing the Chaser
Manhattan Monkey Business
One Hour Married
Anything Once!
Dizzy Daddies
Merry Widower
Hard to Get
Galloping Ghosts
The Whole Truth
Forgotten Sweeties
Fast Freight
A Tough Winter
The Haunted Honeymoon
