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Frank Finlay
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Actor Born: August 6, 1926 in Farnsworth, Lancashire, England Biography:RADA-trained British stage actor Frank Finlay was 31 when he made his London stage debut. The following year, he scored his first significant theatrical success, playing an elderly Jewish patriarch in "Chicken Soup With Barley". In 1962, the RADA-trained Finlay made the first of his infrequent film appearances in "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". In 1964, Finlay toured with the National Theatre of Great Britain, playing Iago opposite Laurence Olivier's Othello. When "Othello" was committed to film in 1965, it was Finlay who received the lion's share of excellent notices; he was also nominated for an Academy Award. Most of Finlay's film characters have had sturdy literary pedigrees: he played Porthos in "The Three Musketeers" (1973) and its two sequels; Inspector Lestrade in a brace of Sherlock Holmes films, "A Study in Terror" (1965) and "Murder by Decree" (1979); Jacob Marley in the 1984... Full Biography
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