Frank Finlay
Acting
Born August 6, 1926 · Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography
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 Di…
Known For · 40 titles
Play for Today
Heartbeat
BBC Play of the Month
Wogan
Screen Two
Theatre 625
Merlin
Sherlock Holmes
The Wednesday Play
Tales of the Unexpected
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Z-Cars
The Pianist
Prime Suspect
Blackadder
Sunday Night Theatre
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Lovejoy
The Voyeur
Drama 61-67
The Key
NET Playhouse
Studio 4
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Lifeforce
The Longest Day
The Three Musketeers
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
Life Begins
The Grand
Laurence Olivier Presents
Fifty Shades of Erotica
The Younger Generation
The Wild Geese
Longitude
A Christmas Carol
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
The Four Musketeers
The Lost Prince
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes