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William Finlay Currie [1] (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. [2] [3] He received great acclaim for his roles as Abel Magwitch in the British film Great Expectations (1946) and as Balthazar in the American film Ben-Hur (1959). [4] [5]
Finlay Currie. Actor: Ben-Hur. Scottish-born Finlay Currie was a former church organist and choirmaster, who made his stage debut at 20 years of age. It took him 34 more years before making his first film, but he worked steadily for another 30 years after that.
Finlay Currie. Actor: Ben-Hur. Scottish-born Finlay Currie was a former church organist and choirmaster, who made his stage debut at 20 years of age. It took him 34 more years before making his first film, but he worked steadily for another 30 years after that.
Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884–1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s.
Finlay Currie was an actor who made his name working on stage before he moved into feature films in the early 1930s. He was severe and serious in appearance, and his role in the 1946 David Lean...
An extraordinary interlude, in "yoof" movie, "Six Five Special" in 1957. It'll get NO hits - which is a shame. [update] Actually, it HAS garnered some - 500-...
Currie, Finlay (1878-1968) A monumental character player who terrified a generation of schoolchildren, and not a few adults, when, as Magwitch in David Lean 's Great Expectations (1946), he leapt out at the young Pip in a gloomy cemetery.
What is unusual about the British visitor, Finlay Currie, is the fact that he can lay claim to being the world's oldest working actor. On Jan. 20, when he opens in “Diamond Orchid,”...
Finlay Currie was an actor who made his name working on stage before he moved into feature films in the early 1930s. He was severe and serious in appearance, and his role in the 1946 David Lean adaptation of the Dickens novel.
[The Eye-Witness on Finlay Currie]: His acting career began when he met and married New York-born stage performer Maude Courtney, with whom he had a successful music hall career in the 1890s singing and playing with her many of the old songs of eras past.
