Jon Finch has grown into a veteran British actor who arrived well before the current crop and stayed. The list also holds 'Frenzy'. The first screen credit dates from 1970. The bulk of the career has been spent in drama. Work has kept arriving for 56 years, which is its own kind of achievement. For much of the audience, Jon Finch is Patriarch of Jerusalem from 'Kingdom of Heaven', whatever else the credits say.
Jon Finch
71 years (Mar 2, 1941 – Dec 28, 2012)Caterham, Surrey, England
23 Movies16 Series
Jon Finch has grown into a veteran British actor who arrived well before the current crop and stayed. The list also holds 'Frenzy'. The first screen credit dates from 1970. The bulk of the career has been spent in drama. Work has kept arriving for 56 years, which is its own kind of achievement. For much of the audience, Jon Finch is Patriarch of Jerusalem from 'Kingdom of Heaven', whatever else the credits say.
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.