Jon Finch

Jon Finch

Actor
Date of birth: March 2, 1941Date of death: December 28, 2012 (71)City: Caterham, Surrey, England

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.

Filmography

16 roles
2000s2 roles
1990s2 roles
1996DarklandsDavid Keller★ 4.8Movie
1994Lurking FearBennett★ 4.9Movie
1980s2 roles
1970s9 roles
1977The StandardCharbinsky★ 4.2Movie
1960s1 role
1969CounterstrikeSimon King★ 7.0Series