- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- March 2, 1941
- Place of Birth
- Caterham, Surrey, England
- Died
- December 28, 2012
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.
Filmography
movieToil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieKingdom of Heaven
2005 · Patriarch of Jerusalem
movieTomb of Terror
2004 · Bennett
movieThe Story of 'Frenzy'
2001 · Self
movieBloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
1998 · Derek Jarvis
movieDarklands
1996 · David Keller
movieWhite Men Are Cracking Up
1996 · Detective Margrave
tvThe World of Hammer
1994 · Self (archive footage)
movieLurking Fear
1994 · Bennett
tvThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
1994 · Count Sylvius
movieBeautiful Lies
1992 · George Orwell
tvLove at First Sight
1992 · George
tvMaigret
1992
tvMerlin of the Crystal Cave
1991 · Vortigern
movieLa più bella del reame
1989 · Jeremy
movieStreets of Yesterday
1989
The Voice
1989 · Miller
movieUnexplained Laughter
1989 · Finn
tvSouth of the Border
1988 · Trevor
tvThe Play on One
1988 · Finn
movieMake and Break
1987 · Peter Davis
tvCasualty
1986 · Graham Lester
movieMuch Ado About Nothing
1984 · Don Pedro
tvThe Bill
1984
moviePop Pirates
1984 · Coastguard
tvSherlock Holmes
1984 · Count Sylvius
The Odd Job Man
1984 · George Griffin
moviePower Game
1983
movieGiro City
1982 · O'Mally
movieDoctor Faustus
1982 · Adrian Leverkühn
tvPeter and Paul
1981 · Luke
movieGary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven
1980
movieBreaking Glass
1980 · Woods
tvHammer House of Horror
1980 · David
tvThe Martian Chronicles
1980 · Christ
movieHenry IV Part 2
1979 · King Henry IV
movieHenry IV Part 1
1979 · King Henry IV
movieLa Sabina
1979 · Michael
movieRichard II
1978 · Henry Bolingbroke
tvThe BBC Television Shakespeare
1978 · Henry Bolingbroke, King Henry the Fourth
movieDeath on the Nile
1978 · James Ferguson
Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
1978 · Self / James Ferguson
movieThe Standard
1977 · Charbinsky
tvCurro Jiménez
1976 · McCallaghan
tvThe New Avengers
1976 · Wallace
movieGame of Seduction
1976 · Count Charles de Lapalmmes
movieEl segundo poder
1976 · Juan de Sacramonte
movieDiagnosis: Murder
1974 · Lomax
movieThe Final Programme
1973 · Jerry Cornelius
movieThe Big Screen
1973 · Self
movieLady Caroline Lamb
1972 · William Lamb
movieFrenzy
1972 · Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
moviePolanski Meets Macbeth
1972 · Self
movieMacbeth
1971 · Macbeth
movieSunday Bloody Sunday
1971 · Scotsman
movieThe Horror of Frankenstein
1970 · Lt. Henry Becker
movieThe Vampire Lovers
1970 · Carl Ebhardt
Counterstrike
1969
tvITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Steve
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965 · Sir Edward Mortimer