Jon Finch
Acting
Born: 1941-03-02 in Caterham, Surrey, England
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
Graham Lester
Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
BBC Play of the Month
Sir Edward Mortimer
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Henry Bolingbroke
The BBC Television Shakespeare
King Henry the Fourth
Kingdom of Heaven
Patriarch of Jerusalem
The Bill
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Steve
Curro Jiménez
McCallaghan
Death on the Nile
James Ferguson
The New Avengers
Wallace
Hammer House of Horror
David
The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
The Play on One
Finn
Maigret
Frenzy
Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
The Martian Chronicles
Christ
The Vampire Lovers
Carl Ebhardt
South of the Border
Trevor
Love at First Sight
George
Macbeth
Macbeth
Counterstrike
Simon King
Peter and Paul
Luke
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Scotsman
Tom Grattan's War
Charlie
Game of Seduction
Count Charles de Lapalmmes
Unexplained Laughter
Finn
Breaking Glass
Woods
Beautiful Lies
George Orwell
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
Vortigern
Lurking Fear
Bennett
Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb
The Horror of Frankenstein
Lt. Henry Becker
Polanski Meets Macbeth
Self
The Standard
Charbinsky
Diagnosis: Murder
Lomax
The Final Programme
Jerry Cornelius