Jon Finch

Biography

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.

Known For

Casualty

Sherlock Holmes

BBC Play of the Month

Kingdom of Heaven

The Bill

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The New Avengers

The BBC Television Shakespeare

All Movies (40)

• Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Kingdom of Heaven2005 · as Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Tomb of Terror2004 · as Bennett
• The Story of 'Frenzy'2001 · as Self
• Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord1998 · as Derek Jarvis
• Darklands1996 · as David Keller
• White Men Are Cracking Up1996 · as Detective Margrave
• Lurking Fear1994 · as Bennett
• Beautiful Lies1992 · as George Orwell
• La più bella del reame1989 · as Jeremy
• Streets of Yesterday1989
• The Voice1989 · as Miller
• Unexplained Laughter1989 · as Finn
• Make and Break1987 · as Peter Davis
• Much Ado About Nothing1984 · as Don Pedro
• Pop Pirates1984 · as Coastguard
• Power Game1983
• Giro City1982 · as O'Mally
• Doctor Faustus1982 · as Adrian Leverkühn
• Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven1980
• Breaking Glass1980 · as Woods
• Henry IV Part 21979 · as King Henry IV
• Henry IV Part 11979 · as King Henry IV
• La Sabina1979 · as Michael
• Richard II1978 · as Henry Bolingbroke
• Death on the Nile1978 · as James Ferguson
• Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette1978 · as Self / James Ferguson
• The Standard1977 · as Charbinsky
• Game of Seduction1976 · as Count Charles de Lapalmmes
• El segundo poder1976 · as Juan de Sacramonte
• Diagnosis: Murder1974 · as Lomax
• The Final Programme1973 · as Jerry Cornelius
• The Big Screen1973 · as Self
• Lady Caroline Lamb1972 · as William Lamb
• Frenzy1972 · as Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
• Polanski Meets Macbeth1972 · as Self
• Macbeth1971 · as Macbeth
• Sunday Bloody Sunday1971 · as Scotsman
• The Horror of Frankenstein1970 · as Lt. Henry Becker
• The Vampire Lovers1970 · as Carl Ebhardt

All TV Shows (20)

• The World of Hammer1994 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes1994 · as Count Sylvius
• Love at First Sight1992 · as George
• Maigret1992
• Merlin of the Crystal Cave1991 · as Vortigern
• South of the Border1988 · as Trevor
• The Play on One1988 · as Finn
• Casualty1986 · as Graham Lester
• The Bill1984
• Sherlock Holmes1984 · as Count Sylvius
• Peter and Paul1981 · as Luke
• Hammer House of Horror1980 · as David
• The Martian Chronicles1980 · as Christ
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Henry Bolingbroke
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as King Henry the Fourth
• Curro Jiménez1976 · as McCallaghan
• The New Avengers1976 · as Wallace
• Counterstrike1969
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969 · as Steve
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Sir Edward Mortimer