Frank findlay actor biography for program

Born: Farnworth, nr. Bolton, Lancashire.

Birthday: 6th August

Educated: St Gregory the Great, Farnworth and Bolton Technical College.

Trained: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

Frank received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for his performance as William Shakespeare's Iago in Stuart Burge's film of Laurence Olivier's 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' musketeer Porthos in three movies for director Richard Lester: The Three Musketeers (), The Four Musketeers () and The Return of the Musketeers ().

Frank findlay actor biography for program All All. Sign In. Francis Finlay. One of Britain's finest products of the stage, film and TV, actor Frank Finlay, he with the dark and handsomely serious-to-mordant looks, was born on August 6, , in Farnworth, England, the son of Josiah, a butcher, and Margaret Finlay. Gregory the Great School and then was actually training to follow in his father's footsteps as a butcher himself when his side interest in acting eventually won out.

Frank's many other films include The Longest Day; Tony Richardson's The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner; Martin Ritt's The Molly Maguires; Bob Clark's Murder by Decree; Alan Bridges' The Return of the Soldier (for which he recieved a BAFTA Award nomination); Franco Zeffrelli's Sparrow; and Eric Styles' Dreaming of Joseph Lees; and most recently Roman Polanski's multi-award winning The Pianist and Norma Jewison's The Statement.

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's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Since then he has led theatre companies in London and on Broadway.

He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year's Honours List, and was presented with his CBE by the Queen in February

A Way Of Life was a series of short documentaries made by BBC North West about various famous people from the North of England.

Filmed in the programme covers Frank's early life growing up in Farnworth in Greater Manchester and his long and distinguished career as an actor on stage and screen.

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Doreen Finlay ()

Doreen Finlay (née Shepherd) was an actor and journalist.



Frank and Doreen married in and remained married until her death in They had three children: Stephen, Cathy and Daniel.

Frank and Doreen first met through amateur dramatics in their hometown of Farnworth.

Doreen trained at The Northern Theatre School in Bradford under Esmé Church where she was classmates with Tom Bell and Bryan Mosley.

You can read more about her here - Doreen Finlay.