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Jon Finch

Jon Finch

Highest Rated: 91% Frenzy (1972)

Lowest Rated: 17% Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

Birthday: Mar 2, 1942

Birthplace: Caterham, Surrey, England, UK

British actor Jon Finch's career has been built upon his roles in adaptations of Shakespearean plays--most notably his title role in Roman Polanski's unconventional interpretation of "Macbeth." Though Finch's power-hungry performance came out unscathed, some criticized the film for being crude, one-dimensional, and pedestrian. In addition to Shakespearean dramas, Finch also acted in a number of thrillers and mysteries--including costarring in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Frenzy" as a man falsely accused of murder. Another notable role in the genre was in "Death on the Nile," a Hercule Poirot mystery starring Peter Ustinov with a star-studded ensemble; Finch played a communist who was one of many suspects in the movie's centerpiece murder. In 2005, Finch played the Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem in Ridley Scott's epic Crusades movie "Kingdom of Heaven." Finch had tried to collaborate with Scott before--he was originally cast for the memorable role John Hurt played in 1979's "Alien"--but had to drop out due to complications from diabetes.

Highest rated movies

91% Frenzy
87% Sunday, Bloody Sunday
80% Death on the Nile
80% Macbeth
40% Kingdom of Heaven
20% Lurking Fear
17% Lady Caroline Lamb

Photos

FRENZY, from left: Anna Massey, Jon Finch, 1972 LADY CAROLINE LAMB, Jon Finch, 1972 MACBETH, Watched by Lennox (Andrew Laurence), Macbeth (Jon Finch) kills the two grooms. 1971. THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, Jon Finch, 1970 FRENZY, from left: Jon Finch, Billie Whitelaw, 1972 MACBETH, Macbeth (Jon Finch) murders King Duncan (Nicholas Selby), 1971. MACBETH, Macbeth (Jon Finch) cannot bring himself to slay Macduff (Terence Bayler),1971. FRENZY, center on ground being examined: Jon Finch, 1972 FRENZY, Jon Finch, Anna Massey, 1972 FRENZY, Jon Finch, 1972 MACBETH, Martin Shaw, Jon Finch, 1971 LADY CAROLINE LAMB, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, 1972 MACBETH, from left: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, 1971 THE FINAL PROGRAMME, from left: Jon Finch, Hugh Griffith, 1973 THE FINAL PROGRAMME, Jon Finch, 1973 FRENZY, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, 1972, conversation at a produce store THE FINAL PROGRAMME, Jon Finch, 1973 FRENZY, Jon Finch, Barry Foster, 1972 MACBETH, Macbeth (Jon Finch) plots the murder of Banquo with the first and second soldier (Michael Balfour and Andrew McCulloch). 1971 MACBETH, Watched by Lennox (Andrew Laurence), Macbeth, (Jon Finch) accuses the two grooms (Bill Drysdale and Roy Jones) of Duncan's murder, 1971.
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
40% 72% Kingdom of Heaven Jerusalem (Character) $47.4M 2005
No Score Yet 23% Anazapta Sir Walter de Mellerby (Character) - 2001
No Score Yet 33% Darklands David Keller (Character) - 1997
20% 15% Lurking Fear Bennett (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Unexplained Laughter Unknown (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Rainbow Uncle Tom (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Riviera Jeffers (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Power Game Unknown (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet And Nothing but the Truth O'Mally (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Juego de Poder Unknown (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Witching Time David Winter (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven Unknown (Character) - 1981
No Score Yet 88% Breaking Glass Woods (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet La Sabina Michael (Character) - 1979
80% 79% Death on the Nile Mr. Ferguson (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet King Richard the Second Henry Bolingbroke (Character) - 1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Standard Major Charbinsky (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Game of Seduction Comte Charles de Lapalmmes (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Une Femme Fidele Comte Charles de Lapalmmes (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diagnosis: Murder Det. Insp. Lomax (Character) - 1975
No Score Yet 39% The Last Days of Man on Earth Jerry Cornelius (Character) - 1973
17% 13% Lady Caroline Lamb William Lamb (Character) - 1972
91% 78% Frenzy Richard Ian Blaney (Character) - 1972
80% 73% Macbeth Macbeth (Character) - 1971
87% 70% Sunday, Bloody Sunday Scotsman (Character) - 1971

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mystery! Unknown (Character) 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet Hammer House of Horror David (Character) 1980