Jon Finch
| Jon Finch | |
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Finch in Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
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| Born |
2 March 1942 Caterham, Surrey, England |
| Died | 28 December 2012 (aged 70) Hastings, East Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1970–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Catriona MacColl (1982-87) |
| Children | 1 |
Jon Finch (2 March 1942 – 28 December 2012) was an English actor who performed in many Shakespearean plays on stage, and made many films. Perhaps most famously, he starred in films for directors Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy) and Roman Polanski (Macbeth).
Finch was born on 2 March 1942, in the town of Caterham in Surrey, and was the son of a merchant banker.
Between 1950 and 1960 Finch was educated at Caterham School, an independent school in his hometown of Caterham in Surrey. Upon leaving school he turned down the offer of a place at the London School of Economics.
After performing in amateur theatre groups and singing in a folk group, Finch did his National Service (National Service had been abolished at this time-) in The Parachute Regiment and stayed on as a member of the SAS Reserve Regiment, training at weekends and several nights a week. He resigned from the military as his acting commitments became more demanding and stated he was relieved to not have to go to Borneo during the Indonesian Confrontation.
In the early phase of his career Finch appeared in episodes of Z Cars in 1967 and 1968, and was the lead character Simon King in the BBC science fiction series Counterstrike, one of the last BBC drama series made in black and white. One of the ten episodes made was never screened, owing to the broadcast in its place of a documentary about the Kray Twins when they were jailed. He also appeared in two Hammer Films productions, The Vampire Lovers (1970) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970).
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