Jon Finch
Born: 1941-03-02 in Caterham, Surrey, England
Died: 2012-12-28
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2014
- Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth' as Self (archive footage)
2005
- Kingdom of Heaven as Patriarch of Jerusalem
2004
- Tomb of Terror as Bennett
2001
- The Story of 'Frenzy' as Self
1998
- Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord as Derek Jarvis
1996
- Darklands as David Keller
- White Men Are Cracking Up as Detective Margrave
1994
- The World of Hammer as Self (archive footage)
- Lurking Fear as Bennett
1992
- Maigret
- Love at First Sight as George
- Beautiful Lies as George Orwell
1991
- Merlin of the Crystal Cave as Vortigern
1989
- Streets of Yesterday
- La più bella del reame as Jeremy
- The Voice as Miller
- Unexplained Laughter as Finn
1988
- The Play on One as Finn
- South of the Border as Trevor
1987
- Make and Break as Peter Davis
1986
- Casualty as Graham Lester
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Count Sylvius
- The Bill
- Much Ado About Nothing as Don Pedro
- Pop Pirates as Coastguard
1983
1982
- Doctor Faustus as Adrian Leverkühn
- Giro City as O'Mally
1981
- Peter and Paul as Luke
1980
- Hammer House of Horror as David
- The Martian Chronicles as Christ
- Breaking Glass as Woods
- Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1979
- Henry IV Part 2 as King Henry IV
- La Sabina as Michael
- Henry IV Part 1 as King Henry IV
1978
- Death on the Nile as James Ferguson
- Richard II as Henry Bolingbroke
- Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette as Self / James Ferguson
1977
- The Standard as Charbinsky
1976
- The New Avengers as Wallace
- Curro Jiménez as McCallaghan
- Game of Seduction as Count Charles de Lapalmmes
- El segundo poder as Juan de Sacramonte
1974
- Diagnosis: Murder as Lomax
1973
- The Final Programme as Jerry Cornelius
- The Big Screen as Self
1972
- Frenzy as Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
- Lady Caroline Lamb as William Lamb
- Polanski Meets Macbeth as Self
1971
- Macbeth as Macbeth
- Sunday Bloody Sunday as Scotsman
1970
- The Vampire Lovers as Carl Ebhardt
- The Horror of Frankenstein as Lt. Henry Becker
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Steve
- Counterstrike
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Sir Edward Mortimer