James Finlayson
Born: 1887-08-26 in Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Died: 1953-10-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
James Henderson "Jimmy" Finlayson (August 27, 1887 – October 9, 1953) was a Scottish actor who worked in both silent and sound comedies. Bald, with a fake moustache, Finlayson had many trademark comic mannerisms and is famous for his squinting, outraged, "double take and fade away" head reaction, and characteristic expression "d'ooooooh", and as the most famous comic foil of Laurel and Hardy.
Filmography
1990
- The Laurel & Hardy Story: An Affectionate Rememberence as Self (archive footage)
1982
- Dance of the Cookoos as Man with Toothache / Christmas Tree Customer
1981
- The Muppets Go to the Movies as Keystone Kop (archive footage) (uncredited)
1968
- The Best of Laurel and Hardy as Meadows / Dulcy's Father / Fin (archive footage)
1964
- The Big Parade of Comedy as Sergeant Major Finlayson in 'Bonnie Scotland' (archive footage)
1952
- Here We Go Again as Plato's Rival
1951
- Royal Wedding as Cabby (uncredited)
- The Slappiest Days of Our Lives as (archive footage)
1948
- Grand Canyon Trail as Sheriff
1947
- The Perils of Pauline as Comic Chef
1946
- Two Sisters from Boston as Street Cleaner (uncredited)
- She-Wolf of London as Constable (uncredited)
1943
- Yanks Ahoy as Cook Flynn (uncredited)
- Happy Times and Jolly Moments as (archive footage)
1942
- To Be or Not to Be as Scottish Farmer with Mustache (uncredited)
- Wedding Yells as Hammerhead Nahl
1940
- Foreign Correspondent as Dutch Peasant (uncredited)
- A Chump at Oxford as Baldy Vandevere (uncredited)
- Saps at Sea as Dr. J.H. Finlayson (uncredited)
1939
- The Flying Deuces as Jailor
- Hollywood Cavalcade as Keystone Cop
- Raffles as Hansom Cab Driver (uncredited)
- The Great Victor Herbert as Lamplighter
- Dog-Gone as Mr. Jones
1938
- Block-Heads as Man on Stairs
1937
- Way Out West as Mickey Finn
- Angel as Barker's 2nd Butler (uncredited)
- The Toast of New York as Trick-Hat Inventor (uncredited)
- Pick a Star as Director
- All Over Town as MacDougal
1936
- The Bohemian Girl as Captain Finn
- Our Relations as Finn
1935
- Bonnie Scotland as Sgt. Maj. Finlayson
- Thicker Than Water as Auction Manager
- Father and Son as Bidad
- Life Hesitates at 40 as Dr. James Finlayson
- Manhattan Monkey Business as Joyce's Father
- MGM 1935 Promo Reel as Manager
1933
- The Devil's Brother as Lord Rocburg
- Dick Turpin as Jeremy
- The Gay Nighties as Mr. Amos Pipp
- Me and My Pal as Peter Cucumber
- Nature in the Wrong as Voice of lion (uncredited)
- So This Is Harris! as Golf Pro
- Mush and Milk as Mr. Brown, the banker
- The Druggist's Dilemma as Andrew Finch
- His Silent Racket as James
1932
- Pack Up Your Troubles as General
- The Chimp as Ringmaster (uncredited)
- Thunder Below as Scotty
- The Iceman's Ball as Commissioner Walters
- Boy Oh Boy! as Saunders
- Jitters the Butler as Phineas P. McPhinn
- The Millionaire Cat as Lawyer Fogg
1931
- Playing at Politics as Criado
- Our Wife as Father of the bride (uncredited)
- Pardon Us as Schoolteacher
- One Good Turn as A Community Player
- Chickens Come Home as Butler (uncredited)
- False Roomers as Landlord
- Scratch-As-Catch-Can
- Stout Hearts and Willing Hands as Kop(as the Original Keystone Kops)
- One of the Smiths as Wine Brewer (uncredited)
- Hasty Marriage as Kitty's Father
- Beach Pajamas
- Second Hand Kisses as Jimmy Finlayson
1930
- The Dawn Patrol as Field Sergeant
- Thieves
- Another Fine Mess as Col. Wilburforce Buckshot (uncredited)
- Night Owls as Meadows
- For the Defense as Parrott
- Dollar Dizzy as House Detective
- Young Eagles as Scotty
- The prince of the dollar
- Gold Diggers
- Don't Leave Home
1929
- Big Business as Homeowner (uncredited)
- Men O' War as Soda jerk
- Liberty as Store keeper
- The Hoose-Gow as Governor (uncredited)
- Two Weeks Off as Pa Weaver
- Wall Street as Andy (as Jimmy Finalyson)
- Hard to Get as Pa Martin
- Fast Freight as Spooky Wall Painting
1928
- Show Girl as Mr. Dugan
- Bachelor’s Paradise as Pat Malone
- Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath as Pa Slocum
- Flying Elephants as Saxophonus (uncredited)
- Lady Be Good as Trelawney West
- Should Tall Men Marry? as Joe Skittle
- Galloping Ghosts as Police Commissioner
1927
- Call of the Cuckoo as Asylum Inmate
- Sugar Daddies as Oil tycoon Cyrus Brittle
- Don't Tell Everything as Lawyer Goldblum
- With Love and Hisses as Captain Bustle
- Hats Off as Proprietor, Kwickway Washing Machine Co.
- The Second 100 Years as Browne Van Dyke
- Do Detectives Think? as Judge Foozle (uncredited)
- Love 'Em and Weep as Titus Tillsbury
- Seeing the World as 'Old Buzz-Fuzz,' teacher
- No Man's Law as Jack Belcher
- Fighting Fathers as Neighbor
- Anything Once! as Mabel's Boss
- One Hour Married
- Forgotten Sweeties
1926
- Wife Tamers as The Waiter
- Madame Mystery as Struggling Author
- Don Key (Son of Burro) as Vivien's Suitor
- The Nickel-Hopper as Rupert
- Merry Widower as The Hunter
- Thundering Fleas as Justice of the Peace
- What's the World Coming To? as The Father-in-Law
- Raggedy Rose as Simpson Sniffle
- Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes as Dean of Pinkham University
- A Punch in the Nose
- Dizzy Daddies as Jonathan Haig
1925
- Unfriendly Enemies as The Cameraman
- Thundering Landlords as The Landlord
- Sure-Mike! as The Floorwalker
- Chasing the Chaser as Gilroy (the husband)
- Moonlight and Noses as Professor Sniff
- Innocent Husbands as The Desk Clerk (as Jimmie Finlayson)
- Hard Boiled
- Yes, Yes, Nanette as Hillory, the new husband
- The Caretaker's Daughter as The Prohibition Sleuth (as Jimmie Finlayson)
- Madame Sans Jane as The Girl's Father
- In the Grease as Father
- Flaming Flappers
- Mary, Queen of Tots as Radio Actor
- Welcome Home
- The Haunted Honeymoon
- Change the Needle
- Tell It to a Policeman
1924
- Wide Open Spaces as Jack McQueen
- Zeb vs. Paprika as Major Glanders Botts
- Rupert of Hee-Haw as Rupert of Hee Haw
- Brothers Under the Chin
- Smithy as Sergeant
- Postage Due as Postal Inspector Hawke
- Near Dublin as Sir Patrick
- Short Kilts as McGregor's Son
- Why Husbands Go Mad
1923
- Scorching Sands as James
- Oranges and Lemons as Worker
- Hollywood as James Finlayson
- Roughest Africa as Hans Downe
- A Man About Town as Humko, Store Detective
- Jack Frost as Wicked Man from the Wicked City
- White Wings as Dental Patient
- Frozen Hearts as General Sappovitch
- The Mystery Man
- Sold at Auction! as The Man Who WAS Sold
- Jus' Passin' Through as Drunk (uncredited)
- Mother's Joy as Baron Buttontop
- The Noon Whistle
- Pick and Shovel as The Foreman
- The Whole Truth as Defense lawyer
- Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? as The Hired Man
- Fully Insured as The Foreman
- The Soilers as Smacknamara
- Before the Public
- Courtship of Miles Sandwich as Miles Sandwich
- A Tough Winter
- Pitfalls of a Big City as The Hired Man
- California or Bust as Campground neighbor
1922
- Newly Rich
- The Crossroads of New York as Lawyer
1921
- Hard Knocks and Love Taps as Plato's Rival
- She Sighed by the Seaside as 1st Suitor
- A Small Town Idol as J. Wellington Jones
1920
- Married Life as Man Who Made Good
- Love, Honor and Behave as Artist
- Down on the Farm as The Sportive Banker with the Mortgage
- Don't Weaken! as Lightfingered Luke - Professor Yonson's Assistant
1919
- Yankee Doodle in Berlin as Commander's Officer (uncredited)
- Trying to Get Along as The Beauty Parlor Operator
- Up in Alf's Place as The Dancing Instructor