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Maude Courtney. . . ( m. 1905; died 1959) . Children. 2. 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).
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.
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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. Although he was a large, imposing figure, with a rich, deep voice and somewhat authoritarian demeanor, he was seldom cast in ...
- January 20, 1878
- May 9, 1968
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 ...
William Finlay Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television, who, for Disney, appeared as Billy Bones in Treasure Island, Hamish MacPherson in Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue, Cluny MacPherson in Kidnapped, and Grandpa Stirling in The Three Lives of Thomasina. Currie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, attended George Watson's College, and worked as organist and choir director before ...
Born in Edinburgh in 1878, he was formerly an organist and choirmaster, and on stage from 1898 and in films from 1931's The Old Man (d. Manning Haynes, 1931), the craggy, white-haired Currie continued to act into his '80s, often dour and forbidding, sometimes merely irascible as in The Mudlark (d. Jean Negulesco, 1950, as gillie John Brown) and ...
Biography. 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 "Great Expectations," as the graveyard-lurking escaped prisoner, Magwitch, was a career best, and scary to ...
