Highest rated movie: The Pianist (2002)
Lowest rated movie: The Deadly Bees (1966)
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Looking for reviews of Frank Finlay movies? Cinafilm has a total of 3,056 reviews across 30 movies.
Movies starring Frank Finlay have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
The Pianist - released in 2002 - is Frank Finlay's highest rated movie, with a score of 85% based on 917 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Frank Finlay is The Deadly Bees - released in 1966 - with a score of 31% based on 12 reviews.
Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare’s Iago in Stuart Burge’s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier’s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas’ musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank’s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson’s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt’s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark’s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges’ The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli’s Sparrow; and Eric Styles’ Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski’s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison’s The Statement.
His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway.
He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year’s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.
Frank Finlay has acted in films with Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Donald Houston and Barry Foster.
Frank Finlay has worked with these film directors: Richard Lester, Tinto Brass, Roman Polanski and Stephen Frears.
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