Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare\u2019s Iago in Stuart Burge\u2019s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier\u2019s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.<\/p>\n
He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas\u2019 musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (1974), The Four Musketeers (1975) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989). Frank\u2019s many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson\u2019s The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt\u2019s The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark\u2019s Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges\u2019 The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli\u2019s Sparrow; and Eric Styles\u2019 Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski\u2019s multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison\u2019s The Statement.<\/p>\n
His similarly extensive television projects have earned him two BAFTA Awards, for his performances in The Death of Adolf Hitler (starring as Hitler, with Rex Firkin directing); The Adventures of Don Quixote (as Sancho Panza, opposite Rex Harrison, for director Alvin Rakoff); the ground breaking Bouquet of Barbed Wire and Another Bouquet; 84 Charing Cross Road; and recently the critically acclaimed series The Sins. Born in Farnworth, Lancashire, Finlay had already begun performing on stage when he earned the Sir James Knott Scholarship at London\u2019s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway.<\/p>\n
He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1984 New Year\u2019s Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare\u2019s Iago in Stuart Burge\u2019s 1965 film of Laurence Olivier\u2019s staging of Othello. He also won the Best Actor Award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. He later essayed the definitive screen portrayal of Alexandre Dumas\u2019 musketeer Porthos in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-27118","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n