Jon Finch

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

54

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-03-02

Day of death

2012-12-28 (71 years old)

Place of Birth

Caterham, Surrey, England

Jon Finch

Biography

Jon 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Finch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

  • Casualty

    Casualty

  • Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

  • Kingdom of Heaven

    Kingdom of Heaven

  • BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

  • The Bill

    The Bill

  • The New Avengers

    The New Avengers

  • Death on the Nile

    Death on the Nile

  • Doctor Faustus

    Doctor Faustus

  • The Standard

    The Standard

  • Maigret

    Maigret

  • Breaking Glass

    Breaking Glass

  • Darklands

    Darklands

  • Macbeth

    Macbeth

  • Giro City

    Giro City

  • Hammer House of Horror

    Hammer House of Horror

  • Richard II

    Richard II

  • Lurking Fear

    Lurking Fear

  • Curro Jiménez

    Curro Jiménez

  • Diagnosis: Murder

    Diagnosis: Murder

  • Unexplained Laughter

    Unexplained Laughter

  • La Sabina

    La Sabina

  • Pop Pirates

    Pop Pirates

  • Beautiful Lies

    Beautiful Lies

  • The Vampire Lovers

    The Vampire Lovers

  • Love at First Sight

    Love at First Sight

  • The Martian Chronicles

    The Martian Chronicles

  • The Play on One

    The Play on One

  • La più bella del reame

    La più bella del reame

  • The Voice

    The Voice

  • Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

    Gary Cooper, Who Art in Heaven

  • Lady Caroline Lamb

    Lady Caroline Lamb

  • The World of Hammer

    The World of Hammer

  • Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

  • Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

    Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord

  • Game of Seduction

    Game of Seduction

  • Frenzy

    Frenzy

  • The Final Programme

    The Final Programme

  • Peter and Paul

    Peter and Paul

  • The Big Screen

    The Big Screen

  • Make and Break

    Make and Break

  • Tomb of Terror

    Tomb of Terror

  • El segundo poder

    El segundo poder

  • The Story of 'Frenzy'

    The Story of 'Frenzy'

  • South Of The Border

    South Of The Border

  • Henry IV Part 2

    Henry IV Part 2

  • Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing

  • Streets of Yesterday

    Streets of Yesterday

  • Counterstrike

    Counterstrike

  • White Men Are Cracking Up

    White Men Are Cracking Up

  • The Horror of Frankenstein

    The Horror of Frankenstein

  • Power Game

    Power Game

  • Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

    Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'

  • Henry IV Part 1

    Henry IV Part 1

  • Polanski Meets Macbeth

    Polanski Meets Macbeth