
Known for
Acting
Born
March 2, 1941
Birthplace
Caterham, Surrey, England
Died
December 28, 2012 (aged 71)
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...
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2005
as Patriarch of Jerusalem
2004
as Bennett
2001
as Self
1998
as Derek Jarvis
1996
as David Keller
1996
as Detective Margrave
1994
1994
as Bennett
1994
1992
as George Orwell
1992
1992
1991
1989
as Jeremy
1989
1989
as Miller
1989
as Finn
1988
1988
1987
as Peter Davis
1986
1984
as Don Pedro
1984
1984
as Coastguard