Peter Finch
Actor
- 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.
- 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…