Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen, and television. Currie was born in Edinburgh, where he later attended George Watson's College. His acting career began on the stage. He and his wife, Maude Courtney, did a song-and-dance act in the USA in the late 1890s. He made his first film in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including as Saint Peter in Quo Vadis, as Balthazar, one of the Three Magi in the multi-Oscar-winning Ben-Hur, The Pope in Francis of Assisi and as an aged, wise senator in The Fall of the Roman Empire. He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant, and he portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of NBC's The DuPont Show of the Week, The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. He was the subject of This Is Your Life in February 1963, when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre in London. 

January 20th, 1878 in Edinburgh  /  Died:   May 9th, 1968