Jon Finch
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 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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Full filmography
- Casualty (1986) as Graham Lester
- Sherlock Holmes (1984) as Count Sylvius
- BBC Play of the Month (1965) as Sir Edward Mortimer
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005) as Patriarch of Jerusalem
- The Bill (1984)
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969) as Steve
- The New Avengers (1976) as Wallace
- The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) as Henry Bolingbroke
- The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978) as King Henry the Fourth
- Hammer House of Horror (1980) as David
- Curro Jiménez (1976) as McCallaghan
- The World of Hammer (1994) as Self (archive footage)
- Maigret (1992)
- The Play on One (1988) as Finn
- Death on the Nile (1978) as James Ferguson
- Love at First Sight (1992) as George
- South of the Border (1988) as Trevor
- The Martian Chronicles (1980) as Christ
- Peter and Paul (1981) as Luke
- Frenzy (1972) as Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
- The Vampire Lovers (1970) as Carl Ebhardt
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1994) as Count Sylvius
- Macbeth (1971) as Macbeth
- Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1991) as Vortigern