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- William Finlay Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. 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).
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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). [4] [5]
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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- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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- Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
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.
- January 20, 1878
- May 9, 1968
William Finlay Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a venerable Scottish actor who appeared across the stage, screen, and television. Beginning his career as an organist and choir director in Edinburgh, Scotland, Finlay Currie joined a theater company and immigrated to the U.S in the 1890's.
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.
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.
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...
