Frank Finlay
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 (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement. His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.
The Key
as Nino RolfeArt professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing...
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The Pianist
as FatherThe true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation....
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Lifeforce
as Dr. Hans FalladaA space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space...
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and...
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Inspector Clouseau
as Supt. WeaverDetective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for...
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The Three Musketeers
as Porthos / O'ReillyThe young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and...
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A Christmas Carol
as Jacob MarleyMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own...
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The Four Musketeers
as PorthosThe Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de...
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Cromwell
as John CarterDisgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the...
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The Wild Geese
as Fr. GeoghagenA British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It...
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Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In...
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
as Booking Office ClerkA rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of...
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Murder by Decree
as Inspector LestradeSherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's...
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Stalin
as SergeiThe life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Igor BouninAll eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the...
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Robbery
as RobinsonIn this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an...
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The Return of the Musketeers
as PorthosIt's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has...
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The Molly Maguires
as DaviesSchuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred...
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Twisted Nerve
as Henry DurnleyMartin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an...
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The Jokers
as Harrassed ManBrothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London,...
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Shaft in Africa
as Vincent AmafiDetective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
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Assault
as Det. Chief Supt. VelyanAfter a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another...
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The Statement
as Commissaire VionnetThe film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World...
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Count Dracula
as Abraham van HelsingFor those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in...
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Sitting Target
as Marty GoldImprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail...
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The Thief of Baghdad
as Abu BakarA resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a...
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A Study in Terror
as Inspector LestradeWhen Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a...
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Sakharov
as KravtsovBiography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his...
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Casanova
as RazettaThe life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but...
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The Return of the Soldier
as William GreyThe horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The...
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Gumshoe
as William GinleyA would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
as uncreditedBefore Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on...
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The Informers
as Leon SaleWhen the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close...
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Eroica
as Josef HaydnBritish filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig...
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The Deadly Bees
as H.W. ManfredTrouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the...
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Virgin Mary
as MonsignorIn 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill....
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Othello
as IagoGeneral Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new...
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Stiff Upper Lips
as Hudson JuniorStiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory...
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Hot Enough for June
as British Embassy PorterA young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an...
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Sparrow
as Father NunzioCatania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old...
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The Lie
as Andrew FirthIngmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect...
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Nothing Like a Dame
as Self (archive footage)BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen...
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The Martins
as Mr HeathOut of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife...
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Doctor in Distress
as Corsetiere"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir...
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Dreaming of Joseph Lees
as FatherSet in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly...
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Lighthouse Hill
as AlfredAfter his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village...
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Cthulhu Mansion
as ChanduAfter a drug deal gone wrong, a group of punks flee to a secluded mansion where the house itself...
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The Body
as NarratorA psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed...
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The Comedy Man
as ProutA middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a...
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Ring of Darkness
as PaulOnce a Satanist who surrendered her soul and body to the devil himself, Carlotta Rhodes begins...
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The Sandwich Man
as Second Fish PorterA man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
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Arch of Triumph
as Col. Boris MorosovArch of Triumph is a 1985 British made-for-television film based on the novel Arch of Triumph by...
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King of the Wind
as Edward CokeIn 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel:...
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Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
as General BulstrodeIn a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the...
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The Waiting Room
as RogerTwo complete strangers, ANNA and STEPHEN, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who...
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Mona
as Captain MansonA teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the...
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Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
as George DabernonThis movie takes place on the Isle of Jersey where a troubled wife has come to sort out the...
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Mountain of Diamonds
as GarrickFrance, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the...
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The Wild Affair
as DrunkYoung office assistant Majorie will marry soon, however she's plagued by doubts if her fiance is...
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
as Adolf HitlerThe final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths...
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Life for Ruth
as Teddy's FatherJohn Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die....
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
as ChaplainAdvertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very...
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The Ploughman's Lunch
as Matthew FoxAs England begins its military engagement in the Falklands, a BBC news journalist attempts to...
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In the Secret State
as Frank StrangeA Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its...
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A Mind to Murder
as Professor EtheregeScotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member...
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Limited Edition
as John RathboneEdward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he...
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For My Baby
as uncreditedA young Austrian comedian struggles with the nightmare of his past and a dead sister who refuses...
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The Adventures Of Don Quixote
as Sancho PanzaA self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking...
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Saturday, Sunday, Monday
as PeppinoOne Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and...
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84 Charing Cross Road
as Frank DoelAdaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
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Van der Valk and the Rich
as Van der ValkDutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the...
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Blood of the Lamb
as AlbertA student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the...
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The Merchant of Venice
as ShylockMaggie Smith, Frank Finlay and Charles Gray star in the adaptation of William Shakespeare's...
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Heartbeat
as Howard FranklinSet during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly...
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Tales of the Unexpected
as Arthur PearsonA British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and...
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Play for Today
as uncreditedPlay for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and...
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Sherlock Holmes
as Professor Coram / SergiusSherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Marcus BrutusPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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BBC Play of the Month
as Sancho PanzaPlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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BBC Play of the Month
as VoltairePlay of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and...
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Thirty-Minute Theatre
as uncreditedThirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television...
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Prime Suspect
as Arnold TennisonHighly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Merlin
as AnhoraThe unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers,...
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Lovejoy
as Harold PlumbThe adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East...
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Blackadder
as The Witchsmeller PursuivantBlack Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders...
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Z-Cars
as uncreditedZ-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed...
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The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
as General BulstrodeIn a land of myth and magic, a forbidden love affair ignites an ancient war between the...
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Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
as Alexander 'Alex' CombePatriach Alex reigns over the magnificent country estate Endellion with a mildness that...
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Johnny and the Bomb
as Tom MaxwellJohnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know...
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The Lost Prince
as AsquithThe life of Prince John, youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary, who died at...
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The Burning Shore
as GarrickFrance, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the...
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Sins
as Uncle Irwin GreenLen Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and...
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Charlemagne
as AlcuinCharlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne....
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How Do You Want Me?
as uncreditedFollowing their marriage, Ian and Lisa move back to the village where she grew up, a village...
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Bouquet of Barbed Wire
as Peter MansonFamily life is turned upside down when it's revealed that the daughter's pregnant by her teacher.
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Life Begins
as Eric ThornhillLife Begins is a British television drama first broadcast on ITV between February 2004 and...
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Another Bouquet
as uncreditedAnother Bouquet, Andrea Newman's controversial series explores the tangled sexual and emotional...
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Count Dracula
as Professor Van HelsingCount Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first...
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Casanova
as CasanovaThe Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in...
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