Jon Finch

Biography

Jon 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jon Finch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Kingdom of Heaven

as Patriarch of Jerusalem

Frenzy

as Richard Ian Blaney

Death on the Nile

as James Ferguson

Macbeth

as Macbeth

Sherlock Holmes

as Count Sylvius

The Vampire Lovers

as Carl Ebhardt

Sunday Bloody Sunday

as Scotsman

Casualty

as Graham Lester

The Horror of Frankenstein

as Lt. Henry Becker

Hammer House of Horror

as David