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  • The Four Musketeers
  • The Four Musketeers review by from Crystal Palace, London
    Rated - 5.0 stars They don't make 'em like this anymore! 20 August 2004
    ... friendship, honour and betrayal. With a cast like Ollie Reed, Charlton Heston, Frank Finlay and Raquel Welch you can't go wrong. BTW, the remakes are uniformly AWFUL....   Read customer review
  • The Pianist
  • The Pianist review by GraftheGreatest from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars Not Polanski's best but still Oscars galore 21 June 2004
    ...his but that is how I felt. The Pianist has good support from British actors Frank Finlay & Maureen Lipman as Wladyslaw's parents & the other players are more than compe...   Read customer review
  • Life Begins - Series 1
  • Life Begins - Series 1 review by A customer from UK
    Rated - 5.0 stars Excellent, well worth watching. 4 October 2005
    ...Superb writing and excellent performances from Caroline Quentin, Frank Finlay and Anne Reid. Well done Mike Bullen for yet another outstanding drama. ...   Read customer review

Frank Finlay - filmography


  • The Waiting Room on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Anne-Marie Duff,  Ralf Little,  Rupert Graves
    Director: Roger Goldby
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Two complete strangers, Anna and Stephen, are brought together by chance by an elderly man who waits for his wife on a station platform. Their fateful meeting acts as a catalyst for them to examine and challenge what's going on in their different relationships, and make hard but positive decisions ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,126 members
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  • Lighthouse Hill on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Jason Flemyng,  Kirsty Mitchell,  Frank Finlay
    Director: David Fairman
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Jason Flemyng stars (Rock Star, Snatch, Lock Stock) with rising star Kirsty Mitchell in this funny and thought-provoking story of the conflict between love and the realisation of a dream, the power of money and what happens when we turn our backs on everything familiar...Charlie Davidson (Flemyng) ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 44 members
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  • Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Helen Mirren,  Ben Miles,  Mark Strong
    Director: Tom Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detective Superintendent Tennison takes over a murder investigation by pulling rank on a junior officer. Her team identify a chief suspect but are unable to find enough evidence for an arrest. When another murder occurs the arrest is secured, but Tennison is convinced that there's more here than ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 1,856 member
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  • The Pianist - HD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 614 members
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  • The Pianist on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living in Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 47,147 members
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  • The Pianist - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Adrien Brody,  Thomas Kretschmann,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish gifted classical pianist living Poland during the Nazi occupation manages to escape deportation to a concentration camp and goes into hiding. For the next few years Wladyslaw eludes capture and lives in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto.
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 1,285 member
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  • The Martins on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Lee Evans,  Kathy Burke,  Linda Bassett
    Director: Tony Grounds
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    THE MARTINS is a Ken Loach style comically tinged drama about a working class English family from TV drama director Tony Grounds. After failing to win a holiday in a competition, jobless Robert Martin (Lee Evans) embarks on a crime spree in an effort to please his children and long suffering wife (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,213 member
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  • Station Jim (2001)
    Starring: George Cole,  Charlie Creed-Miles,  Frank Finlay
    Director: John Roberts
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    It is the 1890s. Bob Gregson is a young lad who works as a porter at a rural railway station. He is keen to impress the stationmaster who is looking for a successor because he is about to retire. Having fallen in love with a teacher called Harriet Collins, Bob wants to raise money to save the local ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 37% from 8 members
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  • The Sins (2 discs) on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Pete Postlethwaite,  Geraldine James,  Caroline Hayes
    Director: Sallie Aprahamian,  Simon Curtis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bank robber Len Green (Pete Postlethwaite) has just finished a four-and-a-half year stretch in prison and he's now determined to go straight. However, with a wife (Geraldine James) and four grown daughters to take care of, it's not going to be easy. Uncle Irwin (Frank Finlay) helps out by offering ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 44 members
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  • The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
    Starring: Michael York,  Oliver Reed,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbot, and Athos, a brawler raising ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 6 members
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  • Lifeforce on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Steve Railsback,  Peter Firth,  Frank Finlay
    Director: Tobe Hooper
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    As Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE begins, American and British space travelers discover humanoids while exploring near Halley's Comet. The astronauts bring three of these aliens aboard their spaceship and head back to earth. However, their guests turn out to be evil vampires who kill all but one of the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,887 member
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  • A Christmas Carol - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: George C. Scott,  Frank Finlay,  Susannah York
    Director: Clive Donner
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A musical adaptation of the book by Charles Dickens about an old miser called 'Scrooge', who is visited by the ghosts of his old partners and the ghosts of 'Christmas Past, Present and Future', in the hope that he will change his ways.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 17 members
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  • The Key on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Frank Finlay,  Stefania Sandrelli,  Barbara Cupisti
    Director: Tinto Brass
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    This erotic outing by Tinto Brass (CALIGULA) is based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Husband and wife Nino and Teresa attempt to revive their sex lives by each writing their most intimate fantasies in separate diaries. A series of resulting sexual adventures liberates them from their tired ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 1,192 member
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  • The Wild Geese - Blu-ray (1978)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Roger Moore,  Hardy Kruger
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A British industrialist recruits a group of mercenaries to penetrate the African wilderness and rescue a deposed political leader awaiting execution at the hands of a military despot. While the prisoner is a man with noble visions of racial reform, the industrialist who's financing the operation ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 8 members
    Due for release on 12th March 2012
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  • The Wild Geese on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Richard Burton,  Roger Moore,  Hardy Kruger
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A British industrialist recruits a group of mercenaries to penetrate the African wilderness and rescue a deposed political leader awaiting execution at the hands of a military despot. While the prisoner is a man with noble visions of racial reform, the industrialist who's financing the operation ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,114 members
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  • Count Dracula on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Susan Penhaligon,  Louis Jourdan,  Jack Shepherd
    Director: Philip Saville
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Regarded as one of the best adaptations of the classic Bram Stoker tale, COUNT DRACULA benefits from a critically-acclaimed performance from Louis Jourdan as the title character. A cult classic from the seventies, the film faithfully recreates Stoker's characters and prose.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 345 members
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  • The Four Musketeers - Blu-ray (1975)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Faye Dunaway,  Raquel Welch
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    With D’Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king’s service, his army besieges the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de Winter to London with orders to assassinate Buckingham if necessary. But she ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 60 members
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  • The Four Musketeers on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Faye Dunaway,  Raquel Welch
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    With D’Artagnan now officially enrolled in the king’s service, his army besieges the rebels at La Rochelle and Richelieu is determined to prevent any meddling by the English before the city falls. He dispatches Milady de Winter to London with orders to assassinate Buckingham if necessary. But she ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,297 member
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  • The Three Musketeers on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Oliver Reed,  Raquel Welch,  Richard Chamberlain
    Director: Richard Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    From Director Richard Lester and featuring a stellar cast including Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch and Christopher Lee, The Three Musketeers is a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel with belly laughs a-plenty and endless swashbuckling.In 17th Century Paris, young, naïve and energetic D’..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 1,612 member
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  • Casanova (2 discs) on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Frank Finlay,  Norman Rossington,  Christine Noonan
    Director: Mark Cullingham,  John Glenister
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Dennis Potter's first adaptation, CASANOVA is a six part TV series, loosely based on the 18th century hedonist's own memoirs. Frank Finlay plays the eponymous lover of lasciviousness, newly escaped from his Venetian prison. Charting the egomaniac's umpteen erotic encounters with heaving busomed ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 306 members
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  • Assault (1971)
    Starring: Suzy Kendal,  Frank Finlay,  Freddie Jones
    Director: Sidney Hayers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the wishes of a psychologist at the local hospital, a young ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 55 members
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  • Gumshoe on DVD (1971)
    Starring: Albert Finney,  Billie Whitelaw,  Fulton MacKay
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Private eye Eddie Ginley (Albert Finney) thinks he's Bogart -- if Bogie was a compere at a Merseyside bingo -- but his latest case may have bamboozled even Raymond Chandler himself. Accompanied by a mesmerising Andrew Lloyd Webber score, Frears' post-modern dismantling of the American detective ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 221 members
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  • Cromwell on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Alec Guinness,  Richard Harris,  Stratford Johns
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,393 member
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  • Inspector Clouseau on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Alan Arkin,  Frank Finlay,  Patrick Cargill
    Director: Bud Yorkin
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Part of the Pink Panther collection in which Alan Arkin plays the part of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau who is sent to London to try to investigate the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 149 members
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  • Robbery on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Stanley Baker,  Joanna Pettet,  James Booth
    Director: Peter Yates
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Inspired by true events (the great train robbery of 1963) Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London's criminal underworld. Paul Clifton has assembled a team of highly skilled thieves and plans a daring heist with intricate precision. Although a preliminary robbery to raise funds ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 376 members
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  • Othello - Laurence Olivier on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Maggie Smith,  Robert Lang
    Director: Stuart Burge
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall. A film by Stuart Burge of John Dexter's production of 'Othello' at the National Theatre. This famous production stars Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 288 members
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Frank Finlay facts

5 most recent films

Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons - Winter And Spring - 3.5 stars
The Waiting Room - 3.0 stars
Johnny And The Bomb - 4.0 stars
Lovejoy - Complete Series 6 - 3.5 stars
Lighthouse Hill - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Pianist - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - HD - 4.0 stars
Prime Suspect 6 - The Last Witness - 4.0 stars
The Pianist - 4.0 stars
Johnny And The Bomb - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Station Jim - 2.0 stars
Lighthouse Hill - 2.5 stars
The Ploughman's Lunch - 3.0 stars
The Death Of Adolf Hitler - 3.0 stars
The Return of the Musketeers - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maureen Lipman - 8 times - show films
Michael York - 8 times - show films
Emilia Fox - 7 times - show films
Julia Rayner - 7 times - show films
Adrien Brody - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Roman Polanski - 7 times - show films
Giles Foster - 6 times - show films
John Frankau - 5 times - show films
Richard Lester - 5 times - show films
Tony Wharmby - 5 times - show films