Peter Finch
18 titles
Filmography
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Sunday Bloody Sunday
(1971)A man and a woman are both in love with a young artist named Bob. The two grapple with looming loneliness as their shared lover prepares to move away.

Kidnapped
(1960)Unaware of his inheritance, young David Balfour is almost sold into slavery by his conniving uncle. Kidnapped and en route to his doom aboard the ship of a scurrilous sea-dog, he survives a shipwreck and joins forces with a Jacobite rebel heading for France.

Operation Amsterdam
(1959)A British intelligence agent and two Dutch diamond merchants rush to secure a stash of precious stones as the Germans invade Amsterdam during WWII.

The Abdication
(1974)Liv Ullmann and Academy Award-winner Peter Finch star as a queen and cardinal who share a forbidden love in this compelling true story of lustand power.

Robbery Under Arms
(1957)Set in the late 19th-century in the Australia Outback, two brothers seeking adventure join a gang of bank robbing outlaws but then quickly discover this life of crime is not for them and try to get out before it is too late.

The Trials of Oscar Wilde
(1960)Flamboyant, witty, and well-known, Irish writer Oscar Wilde clashes in court with the powerful Marquis of Queensbury, the father of his young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, and the trials that follow change the course of Wilde's life forever.

Lost Horizon
(1973)Musical remake of Frank Capra's celebrated 1937 classic of the same title, about a group of passengers who survive an airplane crash in the Tibetan mountains and find their Shangri-La. Highlighted by rousing Burt Bacharach/Hal David songs.

In the Cool of the Day
(1963)Young couple Sam (Arthur Hill) and Christine Bonner (Jane Fonda) are struggling in their marriage. Sam's devotion to his wife is intense, but Christine wants a little bit of breathing room. When he introduces her to his co-worker, Murray Logan (Peter Finch), who is unhappily married to Sybil (Angela Lansbury), there are immediate sparks between Christine and Murray, and, as their respective marriages disintegrate, the two begin to look for a way to be together.

Girl with Green Eyes
(1964)A Dublin shopgirl's religious parents are outraged when her friendship with a divorced writer develops into romance.

The Nun's Story
(1959)The daughter of a Belgian surgeon enters a convent but struggles to maintain her vow of peace during times of war and the murder of her father.

Elephant Walk
(1954)A cholera epidemic breaks out, drought blights the land and herds of thirst-maddened elephants devastate the plantation in a thundering stampede.
I Thank a Fool
(1962)
Network
(1976)Faye Dunaway and Peter Finch both won Oscars for their remarkable roles in this penetrating expose of the nature of power and electronic journalism. William Holden and Robert Duvall co-star.

The Flight of the Phoenix
(1965)When contact with rescuers becomes impossible, crash survivors begin repairing an old airplane forced down in the desert.

Father Brown
(1954)A priest moonlighting as an amateur detective plays cat and mouse through Europe with an international art thief, who proves a clever opponent indeed.

The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
(1952)When King Richard leaves England, Prince John conspires to gain power.

Far from the Madding Crowd
(1967)Based on the classic novel by Thomas Hardy, John Schlesinger’s 1967 adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd has been fully restored, overseen by Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now, The Man who Fell to Earth) originally the director of photography on this stunning classic. Featuring a star cast of Julie Christie (Doctor Zhivago, Don’t Look Now) Terence Stamp (The Collector, Superman) Alan Bates (Women in Love, The Fixer) and Peter Finch (Network, Sunday, Bloody Sunday).Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer, (Alan Bates) a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch) and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
(1953)The sometimes stormy partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan brought about the creation of many well-loved comic operas, such as "Trial By Jury", "H.M.S. Pinafore", "The Pirates of Penzance", "Iolanthe", "The Mikado", "Rudigore", "The Gondoliers" and "Yeoman of the Guard, all of which are featured in the film.