Jon Finch
Known For
Acting
Born
1941-03-02 in Caterham, Surrey, England
Died
2012-12-28
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Finch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Casualty
as Graham Lester
Sherlock Holmes
as Count Sylvius
BBC Play of the Month
as Sir Edward Mortimer
Kingdom of Heaven
as Patriarch of Jerusalem
The Bill
The New Avengers
as Wallace
Curro Jiménez
as McCallaghan
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
Hammer House of Horror
as David
Death on the Nile
as James Ferguson
The Martian Chronicles
as Christ
Maigret
Frenzy
as Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
The Play on One
as Finn
Beautiful Lies
as George Orwell
Love at First Sight
as George
Unexplained Laughter
as Finn
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Scotsman
The Vampire Lovers
as Carl Ebhardt
South Of The Border
as Trevor