Posted on 01/31/2016 9:05:34 AM PST by EveningStar
...In a wide-ranging career across stage and screen, Finlay starred as Porthos in the Three Musketeer films of the 1970s, alongside Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain and Michael York, and opposite Susan Penhaligon in the taboo-challenging television series Bouquet Of Barbed Wire. He also took the lead role in Dennis Potter's serial, Casanova, and starred in Shaft In Africa, the follow-up to the famous black private detective film starring Richard Roundtree. It was in a supporting role to Laurence Olivier in Othello back in 1965, for which he was nominated for an Oscar in 1965...
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1. Why is this in Pakistan Today?
2. Who reads Pakistan Today?
Loved him in the “Three Musketeers.”
You just did :)
I remember him in Merlin and the Christmas Carol.
One could tell from his acting style that he spent a lot of time on the stage.
Finlay played so many different roles while most Americans who know who he was know him only from the Musketeers movies. Here’s Frank Finlay as Hitler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tmufo02wA0
Had him confused with Albert Finney for a second.
There was a better article in The Independent, but they lodged a copyright complaint against FR, thus forbidding FR from posting any of their articles.
It’s hard to believe there was a time when I was 13 that I was excited about new movies.
This was one of them.
It had Raquel Welch and Faye Dunaway. And Charlton Heston.
It never quite made it as a classic.
Lester was always in a bit over his head in all his films.
Football killed him?
I had no idea he was that old. He was great in the Musketeer movies.
I thought that was a classic.
I think it is close.
That was my point. I don’t think it made it as a true classic.
Compare for example top other films released in 1974, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.
Those have become classics.
RIP fine actor
Great actor! Cast as Iago to Olivier’s Othello (some say) because Olivier didn’t want competition from an actor of greater stature. Finley went on to wow the audience.
Saw him in Plunder at the National in 1974-75; he was hilarious - and later in Philamena which also starred Joan Plowright. Still my favorite performance was as Von Helsing in the BBC version of Dracula.
RIP!
I liked Superman II, but I could never get into The Three Musketeers. If I want slapstick, I'll watch The Three Stooges.
Bouquet of Barbed Wire for me.
Shocking for its time, watched it recently, still riveting, as was Finlay. My mum and dads fav of his would be as Casanova.
First thing I saw him in as a child was as the fiery priest in The Wild Geese. Tough sons o’ bitches, lol.
RIP.
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