Frank Finlay
Acting
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.
Nothing Like a Dame
Self (archive footage)
Fifty Shades of Erotica
(archive footage)
The Waiting Room
Roger
Lighthouse Hill
Alfred
The Statement
Commissaire Vionnet
Eroica
Josef Haydn
The Pianist
Father
Station Jim
Riorden Snr
The Martins
Mr Heath
For My Baby
Rudi Wittfogel
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Father
Stiff Upper Lips
Hudson Junior
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
Mike's Dad
Limited Edition
John Rathbone
Virgin Mary
Monsignor
A Mind to Murder
Professor Etherege
Sparrow
Father Nunzio
The Voyeur
Nino Rolfe
Stalin
Sergei
The Other Side
Arthur Conan Doyle
Cthulhu Mansion
Chandu
Mountain of Diamonds
Garrick
King of the Wind
Edward Coke
The Return of the Musketeers
Porthos
Casanova
Razetta
Nineteen Nineteen
Sigmund Freud (voice)
Lifeforce
Dr. Hans Fallada
In the Secret State
Frank Strange
The Making Of Lifeforce
Self
Arch of Triumph
Col. Boris Morosov
Royal Variety Performance 1984
A Christmas Carol
Jacob Marley
Sakharov
Kravtsov
The Key
Nino Rolfe
The Ploughman's Lunch
Matthew Fox
The Return of the Soldier
William Grey
Enigma
Canarsky
Mona
Captain Manson
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
Shahriar
Dear Brutus
Dearth
Ring of Darkness
Paul
Murder by Decree
Inspector Lestrade
Betzi
Napoleon
The Wild Geese
Fr. Geoghagen
The Thief of Baghdad
Abu Bakar
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Peppino
Count Dracula
Abraham van Helsing
84 Charing Cross Road
Frank Doel
Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Four Musketeers
Porthos
Van der Valk and the Rich
Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk
The Three Musketeers
Porthos / O'Reilly
Shaft in Africa
Vincent Amafi
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
The Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
George Dabernon
Danny Jones
Sitting Target
Marty Gold
The Merchant of Venice
Shylock
Gumshoe
William Ginley
Assault
Det. Chief Supt. Velyan
The Lie
Andrew Firth
The Body
Narrator
Cromwell
John Carter
The Molly Maguires
Davies
Blood of the Lamb
Albert
Julius Caesar
Brutus
The Piano Tuner
Wilfred Tilley
Twisted Nerve
Henry Durnley
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Igor Bounin
Inspector Clouseau
Supt. Weaver
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Chaplain
Robbery
Robinson
The Jokers
Harrassed Man
Much Ado About Nothing
Dogberry
The Spare Tyres
Council foreman
The Deadly Bees
H.W. Manfred
The Sandwich Man
Second Fish Porter
Othello
Iago
The Wild Affair
Drunk
A Study in Terror
Inspector Lestrade
Olivier Talks About Othello
(archive footage)
The Comedy Man
Prout
Hot Enough for June
British Embassy Porter
The Informers
Leon Sale
Doctor in Distress
Corsetiere
The Longest Day
Pvt. Coke (uncredited)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)
Life for Ruth
Teddy's Father
The Hard Knock
Franco Angelo
Private Potter
Capt. Patterson