Jon Finch

Jon Finch
Born	2 March 1941 (1941-03-02) (age 68) Caterham, Surrey, England

Jon Finch (born 2 March 1941) is an English actor noted for many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was Macbeth in Roman Polanski's 1971 film adaptation of Macbeth.

Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He has appeared in films such as the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Frenzy (1972), portraying a man wrongly accused of murder; Death on the Nile (1978), and most recently, a small role 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.

Filmography

• The Vampire Lovers (1970)
• The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
• Macbeth (1971)
• Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
• Frenzy (1972)
• The Final Programme (1973) (U.S. title: The Last Days of Man on Earth)
• Diagnosis: Murder (1975)
• El Segundo poder (1976)
• Une femme fidèle (1976)
• Die Standarte (1977)
• Death on the Nile (1978)
• Richard II (1978)
• La Sabina (1979)
• Henry IV, Part I (1979)
• Henry IV, Part II (1979)
• Witching Time (1980)
• Breaking Glass (1980)
• Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos (1980)
• Peter and Paul (1981)
• Doktor Faustus (1982)
• Giro City (1982)
• Power Game (1983)
• Pop Pirates (1984)
• The Odd Job Man (1984)
• Much Ado About Nothing (1984)
• Riviera (1987)
• Die Stimme (1988)
• Plaza Real (1988)
• Unexplained Laughter (1988)
• The Rainbow (1988)
• Rehovot Ha'Etmol (1989)
• La Più bella del reame (1989)
• Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1991)
• Lurking Fear (1994)
• Darklands (1996)
• Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord (1997)
• Anazapta (2001)
• New Tricks (2003)
• Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

External links

• Jon Finch at the Internet Movie Database