Jon Finch
Acting
1941-03-02 · 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.
tvThe World of Hammer
as Self (archive footage) · 1994 · 6.7
tvThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
as Count Sylvius · 1994 · 8.9
tvLove at First Sight
as George · 1992 · 6.5
tvMaigret
as · 1992 · 7.6
tvMerlin of the Crystal Cave
as Vortigern · 1991 · 7.0
tvSouth of the Border
as Trevor · 1988 · 10.0
tvThe Play on One
as Finn · 1988 · 6.0
tvCasualty
as Graham Lester · 1986 · 6.2
tvThe Bill
as · 1984 · 6.8
tvSherlock Holmes
as Count Sylvius · 1984 · 8.2
tvPeter and Paul
as Luke · 1981 · 7.2
tvHammer House of Horror
as David · 1980 · 7.1
tvThe Martian Chronicles
as Christ · 1980 · 6.9
tvThe BBC Television Shakespeare
as Henry Bolingbroke · 1978 · 6.0
tvThe BBC Television Shakespeare
as King Henry the Fourth · 1978 · 6.0
tvCurro Jiménez
as McCallaghan · 1976 · 7.3
tvThe New Avengers
as Wallace · 1976 · 7.1
tvCounterstrike
as · 1969 · 7.0
tvITV Saturday Night Theatre
as Steve · 1969 · 7.0
tvBBC Play of the Month
as Sir Edward Mortimer · 1965 · 5.3