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Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia as a teenager and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudeville and radio before becoming a star of Australian films.
Jan 15, 1977 · Peter Finch, the British actor and star of the widely acclaimed recently released movie “Network,” died yesterday at a hospital in Los Angeles, after collapsing in the lobby of the Beverly Hills...
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Jan 15, 1977 · Film actor Peter Finch died yesterday in Los Angeles after apparently suffering a heart attack. The 60-year-old, four-time winner of the British Film Academy's award for best actor, and a...
Jan 13, 2021 · Finch, 60, collapsed at the Beverly Hills hotel and died at the University of California medical centre less than an hour later. Before his death he was regarded as a certain Academy Award nominee for his role in Network as a television newscaster gone mad.
Apr 30, 2024 · Peter Finch (born September 28, 1916, London, England—died January 14, 1977, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an English actor who was noted for his ability to portray complex characters with subtlety and warmth.
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He was born in London in 1916 and went to live in Sydney, Australia, at the age of ten. There, he worked in a series of dead-end jobs before taking up acting, his film debut being in the mediocre comedy The Farmer Goes to Town (1938). He made his stage debut as a comedian's stooge in 1939.
He died a couple of months before being awarded the Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in Network (1976) and was the first actor to have won the award posthumously. Born September 28, 1916
