Jon Finch

Jon Finch

Born: March 2, 1941
Died: December 28, 2012
in Caterham, Surrey, England
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Jon Finch (1941-2012) was an English actor noted for 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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Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Title: Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 23, 2014
Type: Movie
A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer Andrew Braunsberg, assistant executive producer Victor Lownes, and actors Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw.
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Kingdom of Heaven
Title: Kingdom of Heaven
Character: Patriarch of Jerusalem
Released: May 3, 2005
Type: Movie
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.
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Tomb of Terror
Title: Tomb of Terror
Character: Bennett
Released: April 1, 2004
Type: Movie
In this horror anthology edited from older Full Moon releases, three tales of terror are told. In "ASCENT FROM HELL" ('Dark Angel: The Ascent') an young demon female escapes Hell and comes to Earth where she becomes the punisher of sinners. "INFINITE EVIL" ('The Lurking Fear') a race of cannibalistic genetic creatures live below a cemetery and hunt humans for food. In EVIL NEVER DIES ('Talisman'), the Black Angel is summoned from his resting place to bring about the end of the world. Written by Wallace Entertainment
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The Story of 'Frenzy'
Title: The Story of 'Frenzy'
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Frenzy'.
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Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Title: Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
Character: Derek Jarvis
Released: January 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Follows the discoveries of reporters after the disappearance of the 7th Earl of Lucan, Richard John Bingham after the murder of his children's nanny.
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Darklands
Title: Darklands
Character: David Keller
Released: November 16, 1996
Type: Movie
A reporter investigates ritual profanations and finds himself involved with a Druidic cult.
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White Men Are Cracking Up
Title: White Men Are Cracking Up
Character: Detective Margrave
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Maisie Blue is an enigmatic black widow figure under investigation by detective Margrave for her involvement in the suicides of successful white men. Through the blurred lines of perception and reality, the myth of the black feminine mystique is explored under the guise of a murder mystery. The film explores the fetishisation of black women as a manifestation of white male insecurity.
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Lurking Fear
Title: Lurking Fear
Character: Bennett
Released: July 27, 1994
Type: Movie
The storm-swept and depopulated town of Leffert’s Corners has been terrorized for decades by grotesque creatures that breed in the depths beneath the local cemetery. A group of townspeople have hatched a last-ditch plan to destroy the ghoul-infested graveyard, but their mission is interrupted by the arrival of a band of violent thieves intent on retrieving money hidden in one of the graves.
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Beautiful Lies
Title: Beautiful Lies
Character: George Orwell
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: Movie
August 1941: HG Wells confronts George Orwell, who has just published a scathing attack on him. As wartime London endures the Blitz, they speculate on life and death, truth and propaganda.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: George
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Maigret
Released: February 9, 1992
Type: TV
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
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La più bella del reame
Title: La più bella del reame
Character: Jeremy
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Continuation of "I miei primi 40 anni" The sentimental and erotic adventures drawn from the true story of Marina Ripa di Meana continue.
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Streets of Yesterday
Title: Streets of Yesterday
Released: May 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This is a story of a relationship between three men: Amin, a Palestinian nationalist; Joseph, an Israeli peacenik; and Colonel Shalit, a right-wing Israeli intelligence officer.
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The Voice
Title: The Voice
Character: Miller
Released: April 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A half-dozen random people find themselves locked overnight in a floating discotheque and at the mercy of mysterious terror.
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Unexplained Laughter
Title: Unexplained Laughter
Character: Finn
Released: April 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.
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Title: South Of The Border
Character: Trevor
Released: October 25, 1988
Type: TV
Drama concerning a pair of female private detectives, Pearl Parker (Buki Armstrong) and Finn Gallagher (Rosie Rowell) operating within the bustling multicultural communities of South London. The series was renowned for affording opportunities to new talent, women and people of colour both in front of and behind the cameras.
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Make and Break
Title: Make and Break
Character: Peter Davis
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Lots of pent up business people struggle to balance business with pleasure.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Graham Lester
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Much Ado About Nothing
Title: Much Ado About Nothing
Character: Don Pedro
Released: December 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on. But unknown to all, Claudio's been tricked by the bastard Don John, and (unfortunately), it's up to Dogberry and Verges to solve the case.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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Pop Pirates
Title: Pop Pirates
Character: Coastguard
Released: July 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A story of adventure in the pop music world. A schoolboy pop group who call themselves The Pirates find themselves involved with a different sort of piracy when they discover a secret video tape-copying factory
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Title: Sherlock Holmes
Character: Count Sylvius
Released: April 24, 1984
Type: TV
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
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Power Game
Title: Power Game
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
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Giro City
Title: Giro City
Character: O'Mally
Released: November 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.
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Doctor Faustus
Title: Doctor Faustus
Character: Adrian Leverkühn
Released: September 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan
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Title: Peter and Paul
Character: Luke
Released: April 12, 1981
Type: TV
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
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Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
Title: Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos
Released: November 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A woman nearing her forties, Andrea Soriana, has always pushed aside personal questions and romantic relationships in pursuit of professional success. Now a major illness forces her to reconsider her life--work, family, friendships, men-- causing a psychological and emotional crisis pushes her toward a drastic decision.
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Breaking Glass
Title: Breaking Glass
Character: Woods
Released: October 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Breaking Glass is the story of punk singer Kate and her meteoric rise to stardom. Starting out in the rock pubs of London, Kate, assisted by her manager Danny, becomes a huge star overnight. Once at the top the pressure is immense as Kate's band are squeezed out and she is left to cope alone in the spotlight.
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Title: Hammer House of Horror
Character: David
Released: September 13, 1980
Type: TV
Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
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Title: The Martian Chronicles
Character: Christ
Released: January 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.
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Henry IV Part 2
Title: Henry IV Part 2
Character: King Henry IV
Released: December 16, 1979
Type: Movie
The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
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Henry IV Part 1
Title: Henry IV Part 1
Character: King Henry IV
Released: December 9, 1979
Type: Movie
Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.
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La Sabina
Title: La Sabina
Character: Michael
Released: November 3, 1979
Type: Movie
English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He learns of the legend of Sabina, a mysterious dragon woman who becomes his obsession.
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Richard II
Title: Richard II
Character: Henry Bolingbroke
Released: December 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...
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Title: BBC Television Shakespeare
Character: Henry Bolingbroke
Released: December 3, 1978
Type: TV
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
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Death on the Nile
Title: Death on the Nile
Character: James Ferguson
Released: September 29, 1978
Type: Movie
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
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Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Title: Death on the Nile: Making of Featurette
Character: Self / James Ferguson
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Featurette documenting the making of the film "Death On The Nile".
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The Standard
Title: The Standard
Character: Charbinsky
Released: November 25, 1977
Type: Movie
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
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Title: Curro Jiménez
Character: McCallaghan
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: TV
Curro Jiménez was a successful Spanish TV series that aired on TVE1 from 22 December 1976 to 1979. Its main theme was Andalusian "bandolerismo" in the 19th century, located in the Ronda mountains. The main characters were four bandits, Curro Jiménez
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Title: The New Avengers
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: TV
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Game of Seduction
Title: Game of Seduction
Character: Count Charles de Lapalmmes
Released: August 25, 1976
Type: Movie
A virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
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El segundo poder
Title: El segundo poder
Character: Juan de Sacramonte
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Diagnosis: Murder
Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Lomax
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife so he can be with his mistress, but his wife mysteriously disappears before he can carry out his plan.
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The Final Programme
Title: The Final Programme
Character: Jerry Cornelius
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: Movie
After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.
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The Big Screen
Title: The Big Screen
Character: Self
Released: February 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Two of Britain's leading film directors - John Schlesinger and Gerald Thomas - share the anxiety, hopes and risks experienced by those involved with the movie industry. The Big Screen follows the production of four British films: the eighth James Bond film Live and Let Die, The Optimists of Nine Elms, science fiction-thriller The Final Programme and The 14. Actors Peter Sellers, David Hemmings, Jon Finch, Roger Moore and Jenny Runacre are among those seen at work.
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Title: Lady Caroline Lamb
Character: William Lamb
Released: November 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
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Frenzy
Title: Frenzy
Character: Richard Ian Blaney
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
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Polanski Meets Macbeth
Title: Polanski Meets Macbeth
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A 1971 documentary by Frank Simon featuring rare footage of the film’s cast and crew at work.
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Macbeth
Title: Macbeth
Character: Macbeth
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Title: Sunday Bloody Sunday
Character: Scotsman
Released: July 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.
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The Horror of Frankenstein
Title: The Horror of Frankenstein
Character: Lt. Henry Becker
Released: November 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.
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The Vampire Lovers
Title: The Vampire Lovers
Character: Carl Ebhardt
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: Movie
In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
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Title: Counterstrike
Released: September 8, 1969
Type: TV
Counterstrike is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC in 1969. The series starred Jon Finch as an alien living on Earth as a human named Simon King. He was assigned to live there to prevent an alien invasion of the planet. The programme lasted for one series of ten episodes, but only nine episodes were actually transmitted. The screening of the sixth episode, "Out of Mind", was canceled on the day it was due to be shown due to a late schedule change, being replaced by a documentary on the Kray brothers who had been refused leave to appeal against their prison sentences on that same day. For reasons that will probably never be known, "Out of Mind" was never rescheduled; it was subsequently wiped from the BBC Archives and has never been screened – thus making it possibly one of the rarest pieces of British science fiction television. The first four episodes – "King's Gambit", "Joker's One", "On Ice" and "Nocturne" – still exist in the BBC Archives as 16mm Black & White Film telerecordings, while the remaining five transmitted instalments – "Monolith", "The Lemming Syndrome", "Backlash", "All That Glisters" and "The Mutant" – are listed as missing by the Lost Shows website.