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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaker on January 31, 2016, 11:49:45 AM

Title: Frank Finlay dies aged 89
Post by: Shaker on January 31, 2016, 11:49:45 AM
Not as immediately famous and as big a name as the recent spate of celebrity deaths but worth marking as he was a magnificent actor - perhaps best known for the then-controversial (if you're old enough) Bouquet of Barbed Wire back in the 70s but with a busy career on stage and on both screens:

http://goo.gl/IAc9lY

The roll-call of deaths this past month is becoming seriously depressing :(

(Just realised that perhaps this might go better in LMA&E - feel free to move it if desired).
Title: Re: Frank Finlay dies aged 89
Post by: Bubbles on January 31, 2016, 11:58:59 AM
Yes, I remember him.

I'm wondering if it's to do with our age, all the ones famous in our teens are starting to pop off now.

 :(

There just seem to have been so many this month  ???

Title: Re: Frank Finlay dies aged 89
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 01, 2016, 10:37:07 AM
Not as immediately famous and as big a name as the recent spate of celebrity deaths but worth marking as he was a magnificent actor - perhaps best known for the then-controversial (if you're old enough) Bouquet of Barbed Wire back in the 70s but with a busy career on stage and on both screens:

http://goo.gl/IAc9lY

The roll-call of deaths this past month is becoming seriously depressing :(

(Just realised that perhaps this might go better in LMA&E - feel free to move it if desired).

I can remember him in the TV series Casanova (1971). Not as enjoyably eccentric as Fellini's film of 1978, but controversial for it's time.
Title: Re: Frank Finlay dies aged 89
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 01, 2016, 11:00:31 AM
Casanova was a bit early for me but I've watched it since and I don't feel it has aged well - they stretched out the story too much beyond what it would bear.

I remember him from the time as a lovely Porthos, a good Van Helsing, and a nutty Witchsmeller Pursuivant