2005Nominee
Best Performance
Kingdom of Heaven
Jon Finch
Actor
Caterham, Surrey, England
March 2, 1941
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.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1978Nominee
Best Performance
Death on the Nile
1972Nominee
Best Performance
Frenzy
Career Highlights
1970Highlight
Best Performance
The Vampire Lovers
1989Highlight
Best Performance
Unexplained Laughter
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Kingdom of Heaven
Death on the Nile
Frenzy