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Jon Finch (born 2 March 1941) is an English actor noted for many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was the title role in Roman Polanski's 1971 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. His other famous role was as a down-and-out ex-RAF pilot wrongly accused of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film Frenzy (1972).
Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He has appeared in films such as The Vampire Lovers (1970), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), The Final Programme (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Breaking Glass (1980), Darklands (1997), and most recently, a small role as the... MORE
Jon Finch (born 2 March 1941) is an English actor noted for many Shakespearean roles. Perhaps his most notable role was the title role in Roman Polanski's 1971 film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth. His other famous role was as a down-and-out ex-RAF pilot wrongly accused of murder in Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film Frenzy (1972).
Finch was born in Caterham, Surrey. He has appeared in films such as The Vampire Lovers (1970), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), The Final Programme (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Breaking Glass (1980), Darklands (1997), and most recently, a small role 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 (1979), but had to drop out because of his diabetes; the role was eventually played by John Hurt.
Finch was also the original choice for a role eventually made famous by Martin Shaw in the British television series The Professionals (by an odd coincidence, Shaw had himself played Banquo to Finch's Macbeth in Polanski's film). He pulled out at last minute, citing the fact that he "couldn't possibly play a LESS
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