
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. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Wise Men, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator; He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. In one of his very last performances, Currie plays a dying mafioso boss in the two part "Vendetta For The Saint" (1968) starring Roger Moore.
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IMDb rating of each title on Cineora, by year.

as Don Pasquale

8 episodes
as General · 1 episode
as Dodo

as Mr. Lundie
as Doll Maker
as Old Man · 1 episode

as Emcee
as Balthasar
as David
as Supt. Charles Matheson

as Count Grinov

as Narrator (uncredited)

as Father Verity

as Mr. Patient
as Hyper-religious Old Barfly
as Narrator
as Uncle Jim

as The Marquis of Tullibardine
as Alastair McBain

as Sir Joshua Varley
as Dr. Krylie

as Sergeant-Major Morris

as Dr. Hammond
as Rubin

as Creditor
as James Gray

as Uncle Mart

as Al, Arthur's Manager
as Al Parson

as Angus MacKintosh
as Porter
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