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Finlay Currie - Actor. Actor. Birth Date: January 20, 1878. Death Date: May 9, 1968. Birth Place: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Finlay Currie was an actor who made his name working on stage...
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.
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 boot.
Highest Rated: 100% Treasure Island (1950) Lowest Rated: 72% Around the World in 80 Days (1956) Birthday: Jan 20, 1878. Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Finlay Currie was an actor who made...
Active - 1932 - 1982 | Born - Jan 20, 1878 | Died - May 9, 1968 | Genres - Drama, Action, Adventure. Overview. Filmography. Other Appearances. Share on. facebook. twitter. Biography by AllMovie. Scottish actor Finlay Currie's pre-theatrical occupations included choirmaster and organist.
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 boot.
Currie, Finlay (1878-1968) A monumental character player who terrified a generation of schoolchildren, and not a few adults, when, as Magwitch in David Lean 's Great Expectations (1946), he leapt out at the young Pip in a gloomy cemetery.
