Jon Finch
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.
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Full Filmography
All Credits (57)
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
as Self (archive footage)
Tomb of Terror
as Bennett
The Story of 'Frenzy'
as Self
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
as Derek Jarvis
Darklands
as David Keller
White Men Are Cracking Up
as Detective Margrave
The World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage)
Lurking Fear
as Bennett
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
as Count Sylvius
Beautiful Lies
as George Orwell
Love at First Sight
as George
Maigret
as Unknown
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
as Vortigern
La più bella del reame
as Jeremy
Streets of Yesterday
as Unknown
Unexplained Laughter
as Finn
South of the Border
as Trevor
The Play on One
as Finn
Make and Break
as Peter Davis
Casualty
as Graham Lester
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don Pedro
The Bill
as Unknown
Pop Pirates
as Coastguard
Power Game
as Unknown
Giro City
as O'Mally
Doctor Faustus
as Adrian Leverkühn
Peter and Paul
as Luke
Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
as Unknown
Breaking Glass
as Woods
Hammer House of Horror
as David
The Martian Chronicles
as Christ
Henry IV Part 2
as King Henry IV
Henry IV Part 1
as King Henry IV
La Sabina
as Michael
Richard II
as Henry Bolingbroke
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as Henry Bolingbroke
The BBC Television Shakespeare
as King Henry the Fourth
Death on the Nile
as James Ferguson
The Standard
as Charbinsky
Curro Jiménez
as McCallaghan
The New Avengers
as Wallace
Game of Seduction
as Count Charles de Lapalmmes
El segundo poder
as Juan de Sacramonte
Diagnosis: Murder
as Lomax
The Final Programme
as Jerry Cornelius
The Big Screen
as Self
Lady Caroline Lamb
as William Lamb
Frenzy
as Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
Polanski Meets Macbeth
as Self
Macbeth
as Macbeth
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Scotsman
The Horror of Frankenstein
as Lt. Henry Becker
The Vampire Lovers
as Carl Ebhardt
Counterstrike
as Simon King
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Steve
Tom Grattan's War
as Charlie
BBC Play of the Month
as Sir Edward Mortimer