



Jon Finch
Acting1941Caterham, Surrey, England

Biography
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
Acting History
2014
Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Kingdom of Heaven
as Patriarch of Jerusalem
2004
Tomb of Terror
as Bennett
2001
The Story of 'Frenzy'
as Self
1998
Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord
as Derek Jarvis
1996
Darklands
as David Keller
White Men Are Cracking Up
as Detective Margrave
1995
Casualty
TVas Graham Lester• 1 eps
1994
Lurking Fear
as Bennett
The World of Hammer
TVas Self (archive footage)• 1 eps
Sherlock Holmes
TVas Count Sylvius• 1 eps
1993
1992
Beautiful Lies
as George Orwell
Love at First Sight
TVas George• 1 eps
1991
Merlin of the Crystal Cave
TVas Vortigern
1989
La più bella del reame
as Jeremy
Unexplained Laughter
as Finn
The Voice
as Miller
The Play on One
TVas Finn• 1 eps
1988
South Of The Border
TVas Trevor
1987
Make and Break
as Peter Davis
1984
Pop Pirates
as Coastguard
Much Ado About Nothing
as Don Pedro
1983
1982
Doctor Faustus
as Adrian Leverkühn
Giro City
as O'Mally
1981
Peter and Paul
TVas Luke
1980
Breaking Glass
as Woods
Hammer House of Horror
TVas David• 1 eps
The Martian Chronicles
TVas Christ• 1 eps
1979
1978
Death on the Nile
as James Ferguson
Richard II
as Henry Bolingbroke
1977
1976
Game of Seduction
as Count Charles de Lapalmmes
El segundo poder
as Juan de Sacramonte
1974
Diagnosis: Murder
as Lomax
1973
The Big Screen
as Self
The Final Programme
as Jerry Cornelius
1972
1971
Sunday Bloody Sunday
as Scotsman
Macbeth
as Macbeth
1970
The Horror of Frankenstein
as Lt. Henry Becker
The Vampire Lovers
as Carl Ebhardt
1969
BBC Play of the Month
TVas Sir Edward Mortimer• 1 eps







