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Frank Finlay

06 Aug, 1926 in Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK

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.

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프랭크 핀레이Francis "Frank" FinlayFrancis Finlay

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The Pianist
84% (2002)
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Enigma
56% (1982)
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Cromwell
66% (1970)
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Gumshoe
63% (1971)
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The Key
60% (1983)
Dear Brutus
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Othello
64% (1965)
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Sparrow
77% (1994)
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Mona
0% (1982)
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Robbery
65% (1967)
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The Jokers
60% (1967)
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For My Baby
20% (2000)
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Sakharov
70% (1984)
The Other Side
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The Lie
60% (1970)
The Hard Knock
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Eroica
52% (2003)
Danny Jones
50% (1972)
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Julius Caesar
80% (1969)
Betzi
0% (1978)
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Virgin Mary
46% (1995)
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Life for Ruth
62% (1962)
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The Informers
68% (1963)