![]() ![]() įinch went to Europe to star in Game of Seduction (1976) directed by Roger Vadim, The Second Power (1976) and The Standard (1977). He also declined a role in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers (1973). įinch was offered the role of James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973), but he declined the part and it went to Roger Moore. He went on in 1975 to play the title role in a BBC/ ABC joint production series about Australia's first outlawed bushranger, Ben Hall. Finch starred in Diagnosis: Murder (1974). However, while Frenzy was a hit, Macbeth, Lady Caroline Lamb and Final Programme were commercial disappointments. In April 1973 he was called "Europe's hottest young property of the moment", announced for Gargantua from Ken Russell and Pantagruei in Italy. In The Final Programme (1973) he played Michael Moorcock's secret agent Jerry Cornelius. Projects announced for him included an adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Possessed and a thriller The Reporter. Finch said at this stage of his career he wanted to make "one good film" a year and do theatre he had two more films to do for Caliban, the company who made Macbeth and was going to write screenplays. This in turn led to him being cast in Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), as William Lamb. ![]() He was impressed with the rushes for Macbeth and cast him. Īlfred Hitchcock was looking for a lesser known leading man for Frenzy (1972). The casting was controversial because Finch was so young and had not performed any Shakespeare previously. ![]() His casting was announced in October 1970. This led to the actor being cast in the lead in Polanski's 1971 version of Shakespeare's Macbeth. He said his career at this stage "wasn't spectacular but it was interesting." Stardom įinch met Roman Polanski on a plane flight. Finch had a small role in the groundbreaking 1971 drama Sunday Bloody Sunday (which starred the unrelated Peter Finch). He also appeared in two Hammer Films productions, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). ![]() One of the ten episodes made was never screened, owing to the broadcast in its place of a documentary about the Kray Twins when they were jailed. He was in a number of episodes of Z-Cars and played Sir John Mortimer in a BBC play on Mary, Queen of Scots in 1969.įinch played the lead character Simon King in the BBC science fiction series Counterstrike (1969), one of the last BBC drama series made in black and white. In the early phase of his career Finch appeared in episodes of Crossroads, The Fellows, ITV Playhouse, City '68, Tom Grattan's War, ITV Sunday Night Theatre and Thirty-Minute Theatre. He appeared on stage in From the Hill in 1963. He resigned from the military as his acting commitments became more demanding and stated he was relieved to not have to go to Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation (1963–66). Early acting and SAS Īfter performing in amateur theatre groups and singing in a folk group, Finch did his National Service in The Parachute Regiment and stayed on as a member of the SAS Reserve Regiment, training at weekends and several nights a week. Upon leaving school he turned down the offer of a place at the London School of Economics. Finch was born on 2 March 1942, in Caterham in Surrey, the son of a merchant banker.īetween 19, Finch was educated at Caterham School, an independent school in Caterham. ![]()
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