
Frank Finlay
Born August 6, 1926 · Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
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.
Notable Appearances
Movies

The Pianist

The Voyeur

The Key

The Longest Day

Lifeforce

The Three Musketeers

The Wild Geese

The Four Musketeers

Inspector Clouseau

The Shoes of the Fisherman

A Christmas Carol

Nothing Like a Dame

A Study in Terror

The Miracle of Medjugorje

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Murder by Decree

Shaft in Africa

The Molly Maguires

The Statement

The Return of the Musketeers

Hot Enough for June

Fifty Shades of Erotica

The Thief of Baghdad

Stalin

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Robbery

Sitting Target

The Death of Adolf Hitler

Royal Variety Performance 1984

The Deadly Bees

Sparrow

Arch of Triumph

Enigma

King of the Wind

Cromwell

Cthulhu Mansion
TV Shows

Wogan

Heartbeat

Theatre 625

The Wednesday Play

Merlin

Sherlock Holmes

Z-Cars

Thirty-Minute Theatre

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Blackadder

Sunday Night Theatre

Prime Suspect

Lovejoy

NET Playhouse

The Grand

Longitude

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Laurence Olivier Presents

Johnny and the Bomb

Life Begins

How Do You Want Me?

Armchair Theatre

The Sins

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons

Mountain of Diamonds

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

The Lost Prince

The Burning Shore

Count Dracula

The Spanish Civil War

Erebus: The Aftermath

Casanova

Les Misérables

Another Bouquet
More Movies

The Sandwich Man

Count Dracula

Twisted Nerve

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Stiff Upper Lips

The Return of the Soldier

Casanova

A Mind to Murder

Mona

Ring of Darkness

The Ploughman's Lunch

Mountain of Diamonds

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

Doctor in Distress

The Merchant of Venice

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

The Martins

The Informers

Assault

In the Secret State

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

Van der Valk and the Rich

The Lie

Lighthouse Hill

Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter

Julius Caesar

84 Charing Cross Road

The Jokers

Sakharov

Gumshoe

Limited Edition

Station Jim

The Comedy Man

Life for Ruth

The Waiting Room

Eroica

For My Baby

The Body

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

Nineteen Nineteen

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

The Wild Affair




