Biography
Frank Finlay
Acting
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…
Career works
138
Movies
93
Series
45
Career average
6.6/10
Birth date
08/06/1926
Place of birth
Farnworth, Lancashire, England, UK
Date of death
01/30/2016
Filmography highlights
Movies
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 · 6.8
Fifty Shades of Erotica
2015 · 7.0
The Waiting Room
2007 · 5.5
Lighthouse Hill
2004 · 9.5
The Statement
2003 · 5.7
Eroica
2003 · 7.5
The Pianist
2002 · 8.4
The Martins
2001 · 5.4
For My Baby
2000 · 3.8
Dreaming of Joseph Lees
1999 · 6.4
Stiff Upper Lips
1998 · 5.6
Limited Edition
1997 · 7.0
Virgin Mary
1995 · 4.4
A Mind to Murder
1995 · 6.3
Sparrow
1994 · 7.4
Series
Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons
2008 · 7.5
Merlin
2008 · 7.8
Johnny and the Bomb
2006 · 6.7
Life Begins
2004 · 8.0
The Lost Prince
2003 · 7.2
The Sins
2000 · 5.3
Longitude
2000 · 7.0
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns
1999 · 6.9
How Do You Want Me?
1998 · 8.0
The Grand
1997 · 5.1
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
1994 · 8.8
Heartbeat
1992 · 7.2
Mountain of Diamonds
1991
Prime Suspect
1991 · 7.8
The Burning Shore
1991