Peter Finch

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Filmography (All Films)

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Rats of Tobruk, The (The Fighting Rats of Tobruk) (1944): Dir. Charles Chauvel
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Peter Finch; Aussie battler Chips Rafferty fight hard in the Battle of Rommel in this chest–thumping follow–up to FORTY THOUSAND HORSEMEN.
Eureka Stockade (Massacre Hill) (1949): Dir. Harry Watt
Feat. Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert…; Stirring account of the Victorian gold miners rebellion against British colonial authority in the 1850's and it's violent result. Ealing Studio's…
Story of Robin Hood, The (1952): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch…; Colourful, uncomplicated rendering of the famous tale should delight younger viewers. Filmed in England by Walt Disney Studios.
Heart of the Matter, The (1953): Dir. George More O'Ferrall
Feat. Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan, Maria Schell…; Solid adaptation of Graham Greene's bleak novel has Trevor Howard as a policeman in Sierra Leone tormented by his extra–marital affair.
Story of Gilbert and Sullivan, The (1953): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Robert Morley, Maurice Evans, Eileen Herlie…; Spirited biopic of the careers of W.S. Gilbert, a barrister turned–comic–writer, and Arthur Sullivan, a classic composer (converted…
Elephant Walk (1954): Dir. William Dieterle
Feat. Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch…; Love–triangle melodrama set on Ceylon tea plantation is a tad overblown, with thunder stolen from the good cast by a climactic elephant…
Passage Home (1955): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Peter Finch, Anthony Steel, Diane Cilento…; Torrid melodrama with the presence of a young woman on board a cargo ship causing tensions amongst the male crew.
Simon & Laura (Simon and Laura) (1955): Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Maurice Denham…; Prescient satire with a bickering couple, on the brink of splitting up are given the opportunity to revitalise their acting careers by starring in a…
A Town Like Alice (1956): Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch; Based on Neville Shute's 1950s bestseller, this WWII drama opens with the fall of Singapore and the internment of Virginia McKenna in a Japanese POW…
Battle of the River Plate (1956): Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressbuger
Feat. John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch; Straight–ahead account of the British attempt to capture a gigantic German battleship in 1939 off the coast of South America.
Robbery Under Arms (1957): Dir. Jack Lee
Feat. Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis, Laurence Naismith…; Seminal Aussie western with Peter Finch as charismatic outlaw Captain Starlight leading two brothers astray after they join his roving band of…
Windom's Way (1957): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Robert Flemyng…; Malayan–set drama with Finch as a doctor – who along with his estranged wife – finds himself caught up in political turmoil that…
Nun's Story, The (1958): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Dame Edith Evans; Audrey Hepburn stars in this satisfying account of a young woman's ambition to serve in the Belgian Congo after her time in a strict convent.
Operation Amsterdam (1959): Dir. Michael McCarthy
Feat. Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton; Gripping wartime drama tracking two gem specialists attempting to remove a valuable horde of diamonds from Amsterdam in 14 hours before the nasty…
Kidnapped (1960): Dir. Robert Stevenson
Feat. Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee…; The third screen version of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic about a young lad who lands in the middle of the 18th century Scottish uprising. With…
No Love for Johnnie (1961): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence…; Peter Finch excels as a British MP whose desire for career advancement threatens his personal life.
Sins of Rachel Cade, The (1961): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore; A colonel falls in love with a Protestant medical missionary in the Belgian Congo during WWII, but an American injured pilot interrupts proceedings.
Girl with Green Eyes (1963): Dir. Desmond Davis
Feat. Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham; Rewarding 'kitchen sink' drama about an ill–fated attraction between a young girl and a married writer. Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham are the…
Pumpkin Eater, The (1964): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason…; Anne Bancroft is riveting as a woman of the verge of a nervous breakdown in this penetrating and vastly under–rated British melodrama. As…
Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…; One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
10:30 PM Summer (1966): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch; Tawdry, heavy–handed curiosity adapts Marguerite Duras’s New Wave novel into a sordid, albeit beautifully locationed spectacle. With a…
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Terence Stamp…; Pastoral, moody epic set in 18th Century England follows the romantic intrigues of an independent woman farmer with three men. Photography by Nic…
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971): Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Glenda Jackson, Peter Finch; Bizarre love triangle develops when a couple find themselves having an affair with the same man. A mature and provocative drama.
Network (1976): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Peter Finch, William Holden, Faye Dunaway…; Explosive drama about an ailing TV station desperate to improve their ratings. Peter Finch won the Best Actor Oscar post–humously as the…

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