Frank Finlay

Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE

Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by King George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions...

 (born 6 August 1926) is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 stage, film and television actor

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

.

Personal life

Finlay was born in Farnworth

Farnworth

Farnworth is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is located southeast of Bolton and northwest of Manchester....

, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Lancashire County Council is based in Preston. However, Lancaster is still considered to be the county town...

, the son of Margaret and Josiah Finlay, a butcher. A devout Catholic

Catholic

The word Catholic is derived from the Greek adjective , meaning "universal". In the context of Christian ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages. For some, the term "Catholic Church" refers to the church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, made up of the Latin Rite and the 22...

, he belongs to the British Catholic Stage Guild

British Catholic Stage Guild

The British Catholic Stage Guild is the main organisation for Roman Catholics in British entertainment. Founded in 1911, the aim of the Guild, as laid out in the 1931 Year Book, is "to establish and encourage spiritual, artistic and social intercourse among [Roman] Catholics connected with the...

. He was educated at St. Gregory the Great School and then trained as a butcher himself, gaining a City and Guilds Diploma in the trade. He met his future wife, Doreen Shepherd, when they were both members of the Farnworth Little Theatre. They lived in Shepperton

Shepperton

Shepperton is a town in the borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, England. To the South it is bounded by the river Thames at Desborough Island and is bisected by the M3 motorway....

, Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...

 and were married until her death in 2005.

Stage career

Finlay began his stage career in rep

Repertory

Repertory or rep, also called stock in the United States, is a term used in Western theatre and opera.A repertory theatre can be a theatre in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation...

 before graduating from RADA

Rada

Rada is the term for "council" or "assembly"borrowed by Polish from the Low Franconian "Rad" and later passed into the Czech, Ukrainian, and Belarusian languages.Normally it is translated as "council"...

. There followed several appearances at the Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

, notably in the Arnold Wesker

Arnold Wesker

Sir Arnold Wesker is a prolific British dramatist known for his contributions to kitchen sink drama. He is the author of 42 plays, 4 volumes of short stories, 2 volumes of essays, a book on journalism, a children's book, extensive journalism, poetry and other assorted writings...

 trilogy. He is particularly associated with the National Theatre

Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdom's two most prominent publicly funded theatre companies, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company....

, especially during the Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson...

 years and its predecessor, the Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre

Chichester Festival Theatre, located in Chichester, England, was designed by Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, and opened by its founder Leslie Evershed-Martin in 1962. Subsequently the smaller and more intimate Minerva Theatre was built nearby in 1989....

, where he played a wide variety of roles ranging from the First Gravedigger in Hamlet

Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then...

to Josef Frank

Josef Frank (politician)

Josef Frank was a Czechoslovakian Communist politician.Between 1939 - 1945 he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp....

 in Weapons of Happiness

Weapons of Happiness

Weapons of Happiness is a 1976 political play by Howard Brenton about a strike in a London crisp factory. The play makes use of a dramatic conceit whereby the Czech communist cabinet minister Josef Frank is imagined alive in the 1970s , and his hallucinations of life in Stalinist Czechoslovakia...

. He also had parts in The Party, Plunder, Saint Joan

Saint Joan (play)

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises based on what is known of her life and on the substantial records of her trial...

, Hobson's Choice, Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week. To pass the time before their wedding day, they conspire with Don Pedro, the prince of Aragon, to trick their...

(as Dogberry

Dogberry

Dogberry is a self-satisfied night constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing.In the play, Dogberry is the chief of the citizen-police in Messina. As is usual in Shakespearean comedy, and Renaissance comedy generally, he is a figure of comic incompetence...

),
The Dutch Courtesan

The Dutch Courtesan

The Dutch Courtesan is an early Jacobean stage play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston ca. 1604. It was performed by the Children of the Queen's Revels, one of the troupes of boy actors active at the time, in the Blackfriars Theatre in London.The play was entered into the...

, The Crucible

The Crucible

The Crucible is a 1953 play by Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witchcraft trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as a response to McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...

, Mother Courage

Mother Courage and Her Children

Mother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin...

, and Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock

Juno and the Paycock is a play by Sean O'Casey, the second of his well-known "Dublin Trilogy" and one of the most highly regarded and oft-performed plays in Ireland. It was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924...

.

Playing opposite Laurence Olivier

Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson...

's title character

Othello (character)

Othello is a character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's origin is traced to the tale, "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi by Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio. There, he is simply referred to as the Moor....

 in John Dexter

John Dexter

John Dexter was an English award-winning theatre, opera, and film director.Born in Derby, England, Dexter left school at the age of 14 to serve in the British army during World War II. Following the war, he began working as a stage actor before turning to producing and directing shows for...

's 1965 staging and film adaptation of Othello

Othello (1965 film)

Othello is a 1965 film based on the Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman. It was simply a filmed version of a performance by the actors for the National Theatre, staged by John Dexter, from 1964-66...

, Finlay's performance of Iago

Iago

Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's source is traced to Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi . There, the character is simply "the ensign". Iago is a soldier and Othello's ancient...

 as an NCO

Non-commissioned officer

Non-commissioned officer , abbreviated to NCO or Non-com , is a term in many armed forces indicating leadership ranks less senior than commissioned officers...

 left theatre critics unmoved, but later received high praise when the play was filmed and earned him an Academy Award nomination. Critic John Simon

John Simon (critic)

John I. Simon, born Ivan Simon on May 12, 1925 in the city of Subotica located in the region of Bačka, then County of Bačka, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, from 1929 known as Yugoslavia , is an American author of Hungarian descent and literary, theater, and film critic.- Biography...

 wrote that the closeups in the film afforded Finlay the chance to give a more subtle and effective performance than he had onstage.

Finlay was also seen on Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...

 in Epitaph for George Dillon

Epitaph for George Dillon

Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton . It was written before Look Back in Anger, the play which made Osborne’s career, but opened a year after in Oxford in 1957 and moved to London’s Royal Court theatre, where Look...

(1958-59), and, also, in the National Theatre and Broadway productions of Filumena (opposite Olivier's wife, Joan Plowright

Joan Plowright

Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier, DBE , better known as Dame Joan Plowright, is an English actress. She was awarded a CBE in 1970 and was made a Dame in the New Year's Honours of 2004.-Early life:...

) in 1980.

Television and film

His first major success on television was in the title role of Casanova

Casanova (1971 TV serial)

Casanova is a British television drama serial, written by the acclaimed television playwright Dennis Potter. Directed by Mark Cullingham and John Glenister, the serial was made by the BBC and screened on the BBC2 network in November and December 1971. It is loosely based on Italian adventurer...

in Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...

's BBC2 series of the same name. Following this in 1972, he won perhaps the greatest praise of his career for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , popularly known as the Nazi Party...

 in The Death of Adolf Hitler

The Death of Adolf Hitler

The Death of Adolf Hitler was a 1973 British television film starring Frank Finlay as Adolf Hitler and Caroline Mortimer as Eva Braun. The film details the last 10 days of Hitler's life as World War II comes to an end and Allied troops are closing in on the Führerbunker. Michael Sheard and Tony...

.

He portrayed Richard Roundtree

Richard Roundtree

Richard Roundtree is an American actor and former fashion model. He is best known for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the film Shaft and in its two sequels, Shaft's Big Score and Shaft in Africa .-Personal life:Roundtree was born in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Kathryn, a...

's nemesis, Amafi, in Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa

Shaft in Africa, released in 1973, is the third film in the trilogy of films that starred actor Richard Roundtree as John Shaft. John Guillermin directed and Stirling Silliphant did the screenplay. The cost went up to $2,142, 000, but the gross fell to $1,458,000...

(1973) before playing Porthos

Porthos

Porthos, baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan...

 for director Richard Lester

Richard Lester

Richard Lester is an American-born British-based film director possibly most notable for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s.-Early years and television:Lester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...

 in The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers (1973 film)

The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser . It was originally proposed in the 1960s, as a vehicle for The Beatles, whom Lester had directed in two other films...

(1973), The Four Musketeers

The Four Musketeers (film)

The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers...

(1975) and The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers

The Return of the Musketeers is a film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third Musketeers movie directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's The Three Musketeers and 1974's The Four Musketeers...

(1989). He has also appeared in several other films, including The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese is a 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger...

(1978).

He went on to star as the father in the controversial Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Bouquet of Barbed Wire is a novel by Andrea Newman first published in 1969. The novel was later adapted as a British television series made by LWT for ITV in 1976....

and he was reunited with his Bouquet of Barbed Wire co-star, Susan Penhaligon

Susan Penhaligon

Susan Penhaligon is an English television actress best known for her appearances in the controversial 1976 drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire and the British television situation comedy, A Fine Romance .She was cast in many television series and cult, horror and exploitation films of the 1970s, and...

, when he played Van Helsing

Abraham Van Helsing

Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a fictional character and a protagonist from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula.Van Helsing is a Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "M.D., D.Ph., D.Litt., etc., etc." The...

 in the BBC Count Dracula

Count Dracula (1977)

Count Dracula is a television adaptation of the famous novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired in December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book...

with Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan

Louis Jourdan is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case , Gigi , The Best of Everything , and Octopussy .-Early life:...

 (1977).

He appeared in two Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

 films as Inspector Lestrade

Inspector Lestrade

Inspector Lestrade is a fictional character, a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of an acquaintance from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a St...

, solving the Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was a pseudonym given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished districts in and around Whitechapel, London, in late 1888. The name originated in a letter by someone claiming to be the murderer that was sent to the London Central News Agency and...

 murders (A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror

A Study in Terror is a 1965 British thriller film directed by James Hill and starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson...

and Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper. As Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places...

). He also played a role in an episode of the Sherlock Holmes PBS series starring Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett

Jeremy Brett , born Peter Jeremy William Huggins, was an English actor, most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series.-Early life:...

. In 1984, Finlay appeared on American television in A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol (1984 film)

A Christmas Carol is a 1984 television movie adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella. It was directed by Clive Donner and stars George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge.- Overview :The movie was filmed on location in Shrewsbury, England...

. He played Marley's Ghost opposite George C. Scott

George C. Scott

George Campbell Scott was an Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film Patton, and an early flamboyant film performance as General Buck Turgidson in...

's Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge

Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight fisted, greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness...

.

Finlay also played Sancho Panza

Sancho Panza

Sancho Panza is a fictional character in the novel Don Quixote written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1602. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote, and provides comments throughout the novel, known as sanchismos, that are a combination of broad humor, ironic Spanish proverbs,...

 opposite Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison

Sir Reginald “Rex” Carey Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award.-Youth and stage career:...

's Don Quixote

Don Quixote

, fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha , is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes...

 in the 1973 British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

 made-for-television film The Adventures of Don Quixote, for which he won a BAFTA award. He won another BAFTA award that year for his performance as Voltaire

Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and his defense of civil liberties, including both freedom of religion and free trade.Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every...

 in a non-musical BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...

 TV production of Candide

Candide

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best ; Candide: or, The Optimist ; and Candide: or, Optimism...

.

He also guest-starred as "The Witchsmeller Pursuivant" in the titular episode of the 1983 British sitcom

British sitcom

A British sitcom is a situation comedy produced in the United Kingdom. Like sitcoms in most other countries, they tend to be based around a family, workplace or other institution where a group of contrasting characters are brought together each episode. A common factor is the exploration of social...

 The Black Adder

Blackadder

Blackadder is the generic name that encompasses four series of a BBC One historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments.All episodes star Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and his dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series is set in a different historical period with...

.

In 1988 Finlay played the role of Justice Peter Mahon

Peter Mahon (lawyer)

Justice Peter Thomas Mahon was a New Zealand Queen's Counsel, best known for his Commission of Inquiry into the Mt. Erebus Disaster...

 in the award-winning New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...

 television miniseries

Miniseries

A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes. The exact number is open to interpretation; however, they are usually limited to fewer than a whole season. The term "miniseries" is generally a North American term...

 Erebus: The Aftermath

Erebus: The Aftermath

Erebus: The Aftermath was a 1988 New Zealand television miniseries about Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979. The miniseries, a docudrama, was produced by Television New Zealand, and was broadcast in New Zealand and Australia....

.

In 2002 Finlay portrayed Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody is an American actor. He received widespread recognition and subsequent acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist...

's character's father in the Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is a Polish-French film director, producer, writer, and actor. Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a critically-acclaimed director of both art house and commercial films....

 film The Pianist

The Pianist (2002 film)

The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...

(2002). His most recent appearances have been in the TV series Life Begins

Life Begins

Life Begins is a British television drama broadcast on ITV, starring Caroline Quentin and Alexander Armstrong, Anne Reid and Frank Finlay.-History:...

and as Jane Tennison's father in the last two stories of Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television drama series made by Granada Television for the ITV network in the 1990s and 2000s. The screenplays for the first and third serials were written by Lynda La Plante, and in 1993 she received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America...

(2006 and 2007). In 2007 he guest-starred in the Doctor Who

Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien time-traveller known as "the Doctor" who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box...

audio adventure 100

100 (Doctor Who audio)

100 is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. As the 100th release, it is made of four one-part stories, by different authors, rather than the usual multi-part serial...

.

In November 2008 Finlay appeared in the eleventh episode of the BBC drama series Merlin

Merlin (TV series)

Merlin is a British television drama series that began in 2008. It is based on the Arthurian legends of the mythical wizard Merlin and his relationship with Prince Arthur, but differs significantly from traditional versions of the myth...

, as Anorah; Keeper of the Unicorns.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1962 1962 in film The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time , running more than 40 years.-Top grossing films :...	Private Potter Private Potter Private Potter is a 1962 British drama film directed by Caspar Wrede and starring Tom Courtenay, Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser, James Maxwell, and Frank Finlay....	Captain Patterson	Film debut
1962 1962 in film The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Dr. No launches the James Bond film series, the second longest-running motion picture franchise of all time , running more than 40 years.-Top grossing films :...	Life for Ruth Life for Ruth Life for Ruth is a 1962 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, and Frank Finlay....	Teddy's Father
	The Longest Day The Longest Day (film) The Longest Day is a war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, during World War II....	Private Coke
	The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , by Alan Sillitoe was cinematically adapted as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , about Colin, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home, with few prospects in life, and few interests beyond petty crime...	Booking Office Clerk
1963 1963 in film The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....	Doctor in Distress Doctor in Distress (film) Doctor in Distress is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice and Samantha Eggar. It was the fifth film in the Doctor Series...	Corsetiere
	The Informers	Leon Sale
	The Wild Affair The Wild Affair The Wild Affair is a 1963 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Nancy Kwan, Gladys Morgan and Betty Marsden.-Cast:* Nancy Kwan as Marjorie Lee* Gladys Morgan as Mrs...	Drunk
1965 1965 in film The year 1965 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1965.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Boeing Boeing*Brainstorm...	Othello Othello (1965 film) Othello is a 1965 film based on the Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman. It was simply a filmed version of a performance by the actors for the National Theatre, staged by John Dexter, from 1964-66...	Iago Iago Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello . The character's source is traced to Giovanni Battista Giraldi Cinthio's tale "Un Capitano Moro" in Gli Hecatommithi . There, the character is simply "the ensign". Iago is a soldier and Othello's ancient...	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
	A Study in Terror A Study in Terror A Study in Terror is a 1965 British thriller film directed by James Hill and starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson...	Inspector Lestrade Inspector Lestrade Inspector Lestrade is a fictional character, a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of an acquaintance from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a St...	Reprised the role fourteen years later in Murder by Decree Murder by Decree Murder by Decree is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper. As Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places...
1966 1966 in film The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Walt Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died on December 15,1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...	The Sandwich Man The Sandwich Man The Sandwich Man is a 1966 British comedy film starring Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors, Norman Wisdom, Terry-Thomas and Ian Hendry. It was written by Bentine in conjunction with Robert Hartford-Davis...	Fish Porter
1967 1967 in film The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:*December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....	The Deadly Bees The Deadly Bees The Deadly Bees is a 1966 British horror–thriller film based on H.F. Heard's novel A Taste for Honey. It was directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, and Frank Finlay. It was released theatrically in the United States in 1967...	H.W. Manfred
	The Jokers The Jokers The Jokers is a 1967 comedy film written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and directed by Michael Winner. The film stars Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed as brothers who hatch a plot to steal the Crown Jewels....	Harassed Man
	Robbery Robbery (film) For the crime, see robbery.Robbery is a 1967 British crime film directed by Peter Yates. The story is a heavily fictionalised version of the 1963 Great Train Robbery....	Robinson
	The Spare Tyres The Spare Tyres The Spare Tyres is a 1967 British short comedy film directed by Michael J. Lane and featuring Terence Alexander, Judy Franklin, Pauline Yates, and Frank Finlay. Dennis and his wife move to a new house. Discovering a set of tyres in the garage, he spends the rest of the day trying to get rid of them....	Council Foreman
1968 1968 in film The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :...	Inspector Clouseau	Superintendent Weaver
	The Shoes of the Fisherman The Shoes of the Fisherman The Shoes of the Fisherman is a 1963 novel by the Australian author Morris West, as well as a 1968 film based on the novel.The book reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list for adult fiction on 30 June 1963, and became the #1 bestselling novel in the United States for that year, according...	Igor Bounin
	Twisted Nerve Twisted Nerve Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film.It is about a disturbed young man, Martin, who pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be mentally retarded in order to be near Susan, a girl he has become infatuated with...	Henry Durnley
1970 1970 in film The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 11 - The film The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr premieres in New York City...	The Molly Maguires The Molly Maguires (film) The Molly Maguires is a 1970 film based on a novel by Arthur H. Lewis that was directed by Martin Ritt.Set in late 19th-century Northeastern Pennsylvania, this social drama tells the story of an undercover detective sent to a coal mining community to expose a secret society of Irish-American miners...	Davies
	Cromwell Cromwell (film) Cromwell is a film, based on the life of Oliver Cromwell who led the Parliamentary forces during the English Civil War and, as Lord Protector, ruled Great Britain and Ireland in the 1650s. It features an all-star cast led by Richard Harris as Cromwell and Alec Guinness as King Charles I...	John Carter
1971 1971 in film The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...	Assault	DCS Velyan
	Gumshoe Gumshoe (film) Gumshoe is a 1971 film, and was the directorial debut of British director Stephen Frears.Written by local author Neville Smith, the film is set in Liverpool with Albert Finney playing the role of Eddie Ginley. Ginley is a bingo-caller and occasional club comedian who dreams of being a private eye...	William Ginley
1972 1972 in film The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :source: http://www.boxofficereport.com/database/1972.shtml- Awards :Academy Awards:*Ben*The Big Bird Cage*Blacula*Bone...	Sitting Target Sitting Target Sitting Target is a 1972 British film directed by Douglas Hickox and shot in London. It is a violent crime thriller starring Oliver Reed as Harry Lomart, a convicted murderer, and Ian McShane as Birdy Williams, as two convicts planning a breakout. Before the two men can abscond to another country, ...	Marty Gold
	Danny Jones Danny Jones (film) Danny Jones is a 1972 British drama film directed by Jules Bricken and starring Frank Finlay, Jane Car, Len Jones, Marianne Stone, and Nigel Humphreys....	Mr. Jones
	Neither the Sea Nor the Sand	George Dabernon
1973 1973 in film The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....	Shaft in Africa Shaft in Africa Shaft in Africa, released in 1973, is the third film in the trilogy of films that starred actor Richard Roundtree as John Shaft. John Guillermin directed and Stirling Silliphant did the screenplay. The cost went up to $2,142, 000, but the gross fell to $1,458,000...	Amafi
	The Three Musketeers The Three Musketeers (1973 film) The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser . It was originally proposed in the 1960s, as a vehicle for The Beatles, whom Lester had directed in two other films...	Porthos Porthos Porthos, baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d'Artagnan...
1974 1974 in film The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in USA*May 1 - George Lucas creates the first draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope....	The Four Musketeers The Four Musketeers (film) The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the year before, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumas' novel The Three Musketeers...	Porthos	Sequel to The Three Musketeers
1978 1978 in film The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....	The Wild Geese The Wild Geese The Wild Geese is a 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger...	Father Geoghagen
1979 1979 in film The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major Events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....	Ombra nell'ombra, Un	Paul
	Murder by Decree Murder by Decree Murder by Decree is an Anglo-Canadian thriller film involving Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in the case of the serial murderer Jack the Ripper. As Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places...	Inspector Lestrade
1982 1982 in film -Events:*June 10 = Steven Spielberg's science fiction PG-rating film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, becomes one of the highest-grossing box-office success until Jurassic Park,...	The Return of the Soldier The Return of the Soldier (film) The Return of the Soldier is a 1982 British film starring Alan Bates as Baldry and co-starring Julie Christie, Ian Holm, Glenda Jackson, and Ann-Margret about a shell-shocked officer's return from the First World War....	William Grey
1983 1983 in film -Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:...	Enigma Enigma (1983 film) Enigma is a 1983 motion picture directed by Jeannot Szwarc, and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey and Kevin McNally.-Plot:...	Canarsky
	The Ploughman's Lunch The Ploughman's Lunch The Ploughman's Lunch is a 1983 film written by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Jonathan Pryce, Tim Curry and Rosemary Harris....	Matthew Fox
	Chiave, La	Nino Rolfe
1985 1985 in film -Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.-Top grossing films :source:...	1919	Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud , Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology...
	Lifeforce Lifeforce (film) "Lifeforce" redirects here. For other concepts with that name, see Life force.Lifeforce is a 1985 science fiction film directed by Tobe Hooper from a screenplay by Dan O'Bannon and Don Jakoby, from the novel The Space Vampires by Colin Wilson...	Dr. Hans Fallada
1989 1989 in film -Events:* "Batman" is released on June 23, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...	The Return of the Musketeers The Return of the Musketeers The Return of the Musketeers is a film adaptation loosely based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is the third Musketeers movie directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's The Three Musketeers and 1974's The Four Musketeers...	Porthos	Final film in the Musketeers trilogy
1990 1990 in film The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....	Mansión de los Cthulhu, La	Chandu
	King of the Wind King of the Wind King of the Wind is a novel by Marguerite Henry that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1949. It was made into a 1990 movie.-Plot summary:...	Edward Coke
1995 1995 in film The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg....	Gospa Gospa Gospa is a religious drama starring Martin Sheen and Morgan Fairchild about events surrounding pilgrimages to a small village in Hercegovina where six school children claim Gospa appeared in 1981 . The movie highlights Communists preying on Catholics and Croatians who suffer at the hands of...	Monsignor
1997 1997 in film The year 1997 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Star Wars original trilogy's 20th Anniversary Special Editions are released.*Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace....	For My Baby	Rudi Wittfogel
1998 1998 in film The year 1998 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...	Stiff Upper Lips Stiff Upper Lips Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties...	Hudson Junior
	So This Is Romance?	Mike's Father
1999 1999 in film The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...	Dreaming of Joseph Lees Dreaming of Joseph Lees Dreaming of Joseph Lees is a 1999 film adaptation of a story written by Catherine Linstrum and directed by Eric Styles. A drama set in rural England in the late 1950s, the film features performances from Rupert Graves and Samantha Morton. The film was distributed by the Fox Entertainment Group...	Father
2001 2001 in film The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. -Top-grossing films:...	The Martins The Martins The Martins are a Christian singing group composed of three siblings: Joyce Martin-Sanders, Jonathan Martin, and Judy Martin-Hess....	Mr. Heath
2002 2002 in film The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost...	The Pianist The Pianist (2002 film) The Pianist is a 2002 film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...	Father
	Silent Cry (film) Silent Cry (film) Silent Cry is a British thriller film directed by Julian Richards, starring Emily Woof, Douglas Henshall, Frank Finlay, Clive Russell, Kevin Whately, Craig Kelly and released in 2003.- Synopsis :...	Dr. Robert Barrum
2003 2003 in film The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...	The Statement The Statement The Statement is a 2003 drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Michael Caine. It is based on a 1996 novel by Brian Moore, with a screenplay written by Ronald Harwood....	Commissaire Vionnet
2004 2004 in film The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...	Lighthouse Hill	Alfred
2007 2007 in film The year 2007 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...	The Waiting Room The Waiting Room The Waiting Room is an Australian observational documentary series that is set to screen on the Nine Network in 2008....	Roger

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