Jon Finch
Acting
Born March 2, 1941 · Caterham, Surrey, England
Biography
John Nicholas Finch (2 March 1941 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor, noted for his many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's film adaptation of Macbeth (1971). Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder, Death on the Nile (1978), and in one of his last roles, a small part as the Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem (Heraclius, though unnamed in the film) in the Ridley Scott film Kingdom of Heaven (2005). Decades earlier, Finch was cast a…
Known For · 40 titles
Casualty
BBC Play of the Month
Sherlock Holmes
The Bill
Kingdom of Heaven
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Death on the Nile
The New Avengers
Curro Jiménez
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The World of Hammer
The Play on One
Hammer House of Horror
Maigret
Love at First Sight
The Martian Chronicles
Counterstrike
South of the Border
The Vampire Lovers
Frenzy
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Peter and Paul
Macbeth
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
Game of Seduction
Unexplained Laughter
The Horror of Frankenstein
The Voice
The Final Programme
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Lurking Fear
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Lady Caroline Lamb
Breaking Glass
Diagnosis: Murder
Tomb of Terror
Beautiful Lies
Streets of Yesterday
Henry IV Part 1