
Frank Finlay
Known for: Acting
Born: August 6, 1926
Died: January 30, 2016
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 (198…
Known for

Cthulhu Mansion
1992
Dear Brutus
1981

Othello
1965
Blood of the Lamb
1969

In the Secret State
1985

Mona
1982

Van der Valk and the Rich
1973

The Death of Adolf Hitler
1973
The Piano Tuner
1969
Danny Jones
1972

Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
1974

Van der Valk and the Scapegoat
1975

Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
1981
This Happy Breed
1969

Shaft in Africa
1973

Inspector Clouseau
1968

The Key
1983

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand
1972

The Deadly Bees
1966

Assault
1971

84 Charing Cross Road
1975

Count Dracula
1977
The Other Side
1992

The Lie
1970

Julius Caesar
1969

The Merchant of Venice
1972

The Body
1970

The Adventures Of Don Quixote
1973

The Pianist
2002

Lifeforce
1985

The Waiting Room
2007

Gumshoe
1971

The Return of the Musketeers
1989

The Thief of Baghdad
1978

King of the Wind
1990

For My Baby
2000

Lighthouse Hill
2004

Much Ado About Nothing
1967
The Hard Knock
1962

Nineteen Nineteen
1985

Saturday, Sunday, Monday
1978

The Three Musketeers
1973

The Molly Maguires
1970

Robbery
1967

Twisted Nerve
1968

Arch of Triumph
1984

The Ploughman's Lunch
1983

Sakharov
1984

The Four Musketeers
1974

Private Potter
1962
Olivier Talks About Othello
1965

Cromwell
1970

Sitting Target
1972
Romance and Rejection (So This Is Romance?)
1997

Limited Edition
1997

Eroica
2003
The Making Of Lifeforce
1985

Enigma
1982

The Return of the Soldier
1983
Betzi
1978

The Martins
2001

Nothing Like a Dame
2018

Ring of Darkness
1979

Murder by Decree
1979

A Mind to Murder
1995

Casanova
1987
The Spare Tyres
1967

Virgin Mary
1995

A Study in Terror
1965

The Wild Geese
1978

The Statement
2003

Sparrow
1994

Stalin
1992

The Comedy Man
1964

I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1967

The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968
Station Jim
2001

The Informers
1963

Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999

Stiff Upper Lips
1998

Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015

Mountain of Diamonds
1991

Doctor in Distress
1963

A Christmas Carol
1984

Life for Ruth
1962

The Jokers
1967

The Voyeur
1994

The Wild Affair
1965

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1962

Hot Enough for June
1964

Royal Variety Performance 1984
1984

The Sandwich Man
1966

The Longest Day
1962

How Do You Want Me?
1998

Life Begins
2004

Z-Cars
1962

Tales of the Unexpected
1979

Prime Suspect
1991

Heartbeat
1992

Sherlock Holmes
1984

Lovejoy
1986

Blackadder
1983

Play for Today
1970

Bouquet of Barbed Wire
1976

Wogan
1982

BBC Play of the Month
1965

Count Dracula
1977

Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
2008

Another Bouquet
1977

The Sins
2000

Les Misérables
1967

Johnny and the Bomb
2006

Casanova
1971

Laurence Olivier Presents
1976

Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
1994

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999

The Lost Prince
2003

Merlin
2008

The Burning Shore
1991
Target Luna
1960

Erebus: The Aftermath
1987
An Exchange of Fire
1993

Longitude
2000

Theatre 625
1964
The Younger Generation
1961

The Spanish Civil War
1983
Studio 4
1962
Drama 61-67
1961

The Grand
1997

Armchair Theatre
1956

Sunday Night Theatre
1950

Mountain of Diamonds
1991

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969

Screen Two
1985

The Wednesday Play
1964
All for Love
1982
You Can't Win
1961

NET Playhouse
1966

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965