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Jon Finch

Mar 02, 1941 - Dec 28, 2012 (71 years old) in Caterham, Surrey, England

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

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Casualty
Graham Lester
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BBC Play of the Month
Sir Edward Mortimer
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The Bill
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Sherlock Holmes
Count Sylvius
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Kingdom of Heaven
Patriarch of Jerusalem
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Hammer House of Horror
David
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The New Avengers
Wallace
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The World of Hammer
Self (archive footage)
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Maigret
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Curro Jiménez
McCallaghan

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