Frank Finlay

ActorSound Aug 6 (died age 89) Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK 1956–2018 (62 year career)

6.1 avg rating

Biography

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 (198…

Known For

Film

The Pianist

Father

Film

The Longest Day

Pvt. Coke (uncredited)

Film

A Christmas Carol

Jacob Marley

Film

Lifeforce

Dr. Hans Fallada

Film

The Three Musketeers

Porthos / O'Reilly

Film

The Wild Geese

Fr. Geoghagen

Film

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)

Film

The Key

Nino Rolfe

Filmography

Acting (129)

Movies (92)

Nothing Like a Dame

2018

as Self (archive footage)

6.8

Fifty Shades of Erotica

as (archive footage)

The Waiting Room

as Roger

Lighthouse Hill

as Alfred

Eroica

as Josef Haydn

The Statement

as Commissaire Vionnet

The Pianist

as Father

The Martins

as Mr Heath

Station Jim

as Riorden Snr

For My Baby

as Rudi Wittfogel

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

as Father

Stiff Upper Lips

as Hudson Junior

Limited Edition

as John Rathbone

Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)

as Mike's Dad

Virgin Mary

as Monsignor

A Mind to Murder

as Professor Etherege

The Voyeur

as Nino Rolfe

Sparrow

as Father Nunzio

Stalin

as Sergei

The Other Side

as Arthur Conan Doyle

Cthulhu Mansion

as Chandu

Mountain of Diamonds

as Garrick

King of the Wind

as Edward Coke

The Return of the Musketeers

as Porthos

Casanova

as Razetta

Lifeforce

as Dr. Hans Fallada

The Making Of Lifeforce

1985

as Self

Nineteen Nineteen

1985

as Sigmund Freud (voice)

1.0

In the Secret State

1985

as Frank Strange

A Christmas Carol

as Jacob Marley

Sakharov

as Kravtsov

Arch of Triumph

as Col. Boris Morosov

5.0

Royal Variety Performance 1984

1984

The Key

1983

as Nino Rolfe

6.0

The Return of the Soldier

1983

as William Grey

6.2

The Ploughman's Lunch

as Matthew Fox

Enigma

as Canarsky

Mona

as Captain Manson

Dear Brutus

1981

as Dearth

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

1981

as Shahriar

Murder by Decree

1979

as Inspector Lestrade

Ring of Darkness

as Paul

The Wild Geese

as Fr. Geoghagen

Betzi

as Napoleon

The Thief of Baghdad

1978

as Abu Bakar

5.2

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

1978

as Peppino

Count Dracula

1977

as Abraham van Helsing

7.0

84 Charing Cross Road

1975

as Frank Doel

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat

1975

as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk

The Four Musketeers

1974

as Porthos

6.4

Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter

1974

as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk

The Three Musketeers

1973

as Porthos / O'Reilly

6.7

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

1973

as Sancho Panza

Shaft in Africa

1973

as Vincent Amafi

6.0

The Death of Adolf Hitler

1973

as Adolf Hitler

6.5

Van der Valk and the Rich

1973

as Commissaris Simon "Piet" van der Valk

Sitting Target

as Marty Gold

Danny Jones

The Merchant of Venice

1972

as Shylock

7.0

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand

as George Dabernon

Gumshoe

as William Ginley

Assault

as Det. Chief Supt. Velyan

The Body

as Narrator

The Molly Maguires

as Davies

Cromwell

as John Carter

The Lie

as Andrew Firth

Blood of the Lamb

as Albert

Julius Caesar

1969

as Brutus

8.0

The Piano Tuner

1969

as Wilfred Tilley

Twisted Nerve

as Henry Durnley

Inspector Clouseau

as Supt. Weaver

The Shoes of the Fisherman

as Igor Bounin

Robbery

as Robinson

Much Ado About Nothing

as Dogberry

The Jokers

as Harrassed Man

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

as Chaplain

The Spare Tyres

as Council foreman

The Sandwich Man

as Second Fish Porter

6.1

The Deadly Bees

1966

as H.W. Manfred

4.3

Olivier Talks About Othello

1965

as (archive footage)

The Wild Affair

as Drunk

Othello

as Iago

A Study in Terror

as Inspector Lestrade

The Comedy Man

as Prout

Hot Enough for June

as British Embassy Porter

Doctor in Distress

as Corsetiere

The Informers

as Leon Sale

The Longest Day

as Pvt. Coke (uncredited)

7.6

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

1962

as Booking Office Clerk (uncredited)

Private Potter

as Capt. Patterson

The Hard Knock

as Franco Angelo

Life for Ruth

1962

as Teddy's Father

6.7

Television (37)

Merlin

2008

as Anhora

7.8

Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons

2008

as Alexander 'Alex' Combe

Johnny and the Bomb

as Tom Maxwell

Life Begins

as Eric Thornhill

The Lost Prince

as Asquith

Longitude

as Admiral Wagner

Sins

as Uncle Irwin Green

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns

as General Bulstrode

How Do You Want Me?

The Grand

as Edward Lawrence

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval

1994

as Alcuin

8.5

An Exchange of Fire

1993

as Pavel Rhele

Heartbeat

as Howard Franklin

Prime Suspect

as Arnold Tennison

The Burning Shore

as Garrick

Erebus: The Aftermath

1987

as Justice Peter Mahon

Lovejoy

as Harold Plumb

Sherlock Holmes

as Professor Coram / Sergius

8.1

Blackadder

1983

as The Witchsmeller Pursuivant

8.0

The Spanish Civil War

1983

as Self - Narrator

Wogan

1982

as Self

4.5

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Arthur Pearson

6.7

Count Dracula

1977

as Professor Van Helsing

9.0

Another Bouquet

1977

6.0

Laurence Olivier Presents

1976

as Peppino

7.0

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

as Peter Manson

Casanova

as Casanova

Play for Today

Les Misérables

as Jean Valjean

BBC Play of the Month

as Marcus Brutus

Theatre 625

as Dr Dee

Z-Cars

Studio 4

as Fernand Destayac

The Younger Generation

1961

as Ross Mayer

Drama 61-67

1961

as Albert Hope

Target Luna

as Conway Henderson

Armchair Theatre

as Franco Angelo

Crew (1)

Television (1)

The Spanish Civil War

1983

Vocals