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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
March 2, 1941
Place of Birth:
Caterham, Surrey, England
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Jon Finch
Biography
Jon 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 as Kane in Ridley Scott's Alien, but had to drop out because of his diabetes. The role was eventually played by John Hurt.
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth' | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Kingdom of Heaven | Patriarch of Jerusalem |
| 2004 | Tomb of Terror | Bennett |
| 2001 | The Story of 'Frenzy' | Self |
| 1998 | Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord | Derek Jarvis |
| 1996 | Darklands | David Keller |
| 1996 | White Men Are Cracking Up | Detective Margrave |
| 1994 | Lurking Fear | Bennett |
| 1992 | Beautiful Lies | George Orwell |
| 1989 | Unexplained Laughter | Finn |
| 1989 | The Voice | Miller |
| 1989 | La più bella del reame | Jeremy |
| 1989 | Streets of Yesterday | |
| 1987 | Make and Break | Peter Davis |
| 1984 | Pop Pirates | Coastguard |
| 1984 | Much Ado About Nothing | Don Pedro |
| 1983 | Power Game | |
| 1982 | Doctor Faustus | Adrian Leverkühn |
| 1982 | Giro City | O'Mally |
| 1980 | Breaking Glass | Woods |
| 1980 | Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos | |
| 1979 | Henry IV Part 2 | King Henry IV |
| 1979 | Henry IV Part 1 | King Henry IV |
| 1979 | La Sabina | Michael |
| 1978 | Death on the Nile | James Ferguson |
| 1978 | Richard II | Henry Bolingbroke |
| 1977 | The Standard | Charbinsky |
| 1976 | Game of Seduction | Count Charles de Lapalmmes |
| 1976 | El segundo poder | Juan de Sacramonte |
| 1974 | Diagnosis: Murder | Lomax |
| 1973 | The Final Programme | Jerry Cornelius |
| 1973 | The Big Screen | Self |
| 1972 | Frenzy | Richard Ian Blaney |
| 1972 | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb |
| 1972 | Polanski Meets Macbeth | Self |
| 1971 | Macbeth | Macbeth |
| 1971 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Scotsman |
| 1970 | The Horror of Frankenstein | Lt. Henry Becker |
| 1970 | The Vampire Lovers | Carl Ebhardt |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Maigret | |
| 1992 | Love at First Sight | George |
| 1988 | South Of The Border | Trevor |
| 1988 | The Play on One | Finn |
| 1986 | Casualty | Graham Lester |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Count Sylvius |
| 1981 | Peter and Paul | Luke |
| 1980 | The Martian Chronicles | Christ |
| 1980 | Hammer House of Horror | David |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Henry Bolingbroke |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | Don Pedro |
| 1978 | The BBC Television Shakespeare | King Henry the Fourth |
| 1976 | The New Avengers | |
| 1976 | Curro Jiménez | McCallaghan |
| 1969 | Counterstrike |